Continuous Experimentation with Serverless and Modern Agile

Over the last 20 years we’ve seen the lead time for delivering software decrease from years to weeks. Now we see an opportunity to reduce this further to days or even hours. This enables us to think about how we approach product development in a new way - one of 'Continuous Experimentation'. What advantages would doing this bring? What challenges would we face in doing this, and how would we surmount them? These are the questions that Mike Roberts addresses in this talk.

Serverless is a new technological approach to architecture and deployment. While cost benefits are one of the drivers of Serverless, its most interesting advantage is reducing ‘conception-to-production lead time’. Serverless does this by reducing the amount of code we need to write; by simplifying the deployment and operations of applications; and by minimizing the cost commitment of creating infrastructure.

Modern Agile (http://modernagile.org/) is a new take on ‘agile development’ as it was originally considered, and brings it up to date with conceptually aligned ideas - Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. Modern Agile is defined, simply, by four guiding principles: make people awesome; make safety a prerequisite; experiment and learn rapidly; and deliver value continuously.

Mike drills into the benefits that the combination of Serverless, Modern Agile, and a few other ideas can bring to accelerating how we work. Through this he shows how Continuous Experimentation might just be the next big change in the way we deliver software.