Enterprise CI Cultural Maturity

Today we offer a guest blog entry from Paul Julius. Paul extends the Enterprise Continuous Integration Maturity Model that Eric and I developed by bringing in an important missing element: Culture.

As I started to use this model more and more, I realized that there was an element missing that I wanted to highlight for my clients — culture. There are plenty of organizations that have paid big bucks for a CI tool. Some of those have setup a working continuous integration system. They may be somewhere in the middle of the adoption curve, say "Intermediate" on most of the aspects of the maturity model. Yet, they are failing to see many of the benefits promised by continuous integration. Promises like green builds almost all the time and high developer productivity can prove elusive, no matter how elaborate the CI system. I wondered to myself, "What are we missing?"

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Posted by Jeffery Fredrick on September 11, 2009 4:02:00 PM EDT#