The 3 Big Cs of Continuous Agile Development

Agile development is critical for fast and high-quality application releases. To adopt this development process, many organizations also use continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and continuous testing (testing) as a complement to Agile.

This blog will take a closer look at CI/CD/CT in Agile: continuous integration in Agile; continuous testing in Agile; and continuous delivery in Agile. 

Why Agile and Continuous?

Agile and continuous development go together. 

In the age of Agile and digital transformation strategies, every brand is looking to set itself apart. You need to offer services to end users on their terms, on their devices, at their convenience, streamlining and differentiating features. On top of that, end users expect everything to look great, work perfectly — and quickly.

When choosing your digital transformation strategy, there are key tradeoffs to understand between what are conflicting agendas. You need to get features to market faster. But you need to balance increasing presence on users’ devices against maintaining high application quality.

What’s commonly known is that acceleration can come in the form of adopting an Agile process:

Highly independent dev teams who are responsible for a feature or area of the code and delivering incremental functionality from design to production.

That’s where continuous and Agile go so well together.