Sneak Peak: How a Stage-Gate Process Can Hinder Your Adoption of Continuous Delivery

Enforcing a stage-gate type development process can significantly hinder the adoption of continuous delivery in large organizations. To succeed, both R&D and product management must be involved and the process re-engineered, researchers at Aalto University discovered. Otherwise, process overhead and conformance to unrealistic schedules hinder adoption and dysfunctional mechanisms such as hiding problems to pass quality gates can flourish.