Strategic goals and objectives of modernizing CD in the cloud

Investment in CD is a critical prerequisite for business modernization efforts. It is expected that by adopting CD, organizations will significantly enhance their software delivery productivity, which in turn enables the delivery of new products and services. CD could thus be considered a force multiplier. However, many organizations find that they cannot exploit the full potential of CD at scale. There are many possible reasons for this strategic gap between expectation and reality. Let’s start with understanding why this happens and how investing time in setting the organization’s strategic goals and objectives can help close the gap:

• Competing priorities: Organizations can have siloed initiatives where many different segments of the organization each try to steer the cloud onboarding, but often in a way that is disconnected from the development and software modernization initiatives. Business leaders...