TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Rissanen, Olli
A1  - Münch, Jürgen
ED  - Lassenius, Casper, 
T1  - Transitioning towards continuous delivery in the B2B domain : a case study
T2  - Agile processes in software engineering and extreme programming : 16th International Conference, XP 2015, Helsinki, Finland, May 25-29, 2015, Proceedings
N2  - Delivering value to customers in real-time requires companies to utilize real-time deployment of software to expose features to users faster, and to shorten the feedback loop. This allows for faster reaction and helps to ensure that the development is focused on features providing real value. Continuous delivery is a development practice where the software functionality is deployed continuously to customer environment. Although this practice has been established in some domains such as B2C mobile software, the B2B domain imposes specific challenges. This article presents a case study that is conducted in a medium-sized software company operating in the B2B domain. The objective of this study is to analyze the challenges and benefits of continuous delivery in this domain. The results suggest that technical challenges are only one part of the challenges a company encounters in this transition. The company must also address challenges related to the customer and procedures. The core challenges are caused by having multiple customers with diverse environments and unique properties, whose business depends on the software product. Some customers require to perform manual acceptance testing, while some are reluctant towards new versions. By utilizing continuous delivery, it is possible for the case company to shorten the feedback cycles, increase the reliability of new versions, and reduce the amount of resources required for deploying and testing new releases.
KW  - continuous delivery
KW  - continuous deployment
KW  - development process
KW  - B2B
KW  - case study
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 978-331-91861-2-2
SB  - 978-331-91861-2-2
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_13
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_13
SP  - 154
EP  - 165
S1  - 12
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -