An Empirical Study on Continuous Feature Delivery and Conventional Methods

Abstract

Organizations engaged in development and shipment of software solutions constantly look for deployment models that generate minimum wastage, provide quick response to customer requirements, and resolve issues with minimal response time. Hence this has motivated organizations to move to cloud deployment models for consuming software solutions and to operate intelligently. With cloud adaption there is a necessity to use latest project management methodologies that aid to deliver new features in shorter periods with minimal disruption to customer business processes. In this paper an evaluation is carried out with conventional project management methodologies to realize the pros and cons when intelligent enterprises migrate to cloud deployment strategy. Later a methodology based on continuous feature delivery (CFD) is proposed and compared with conventional methodologies by considering various performance indicators like execution time, efforts, automations, and number of features delivered.