Understanding the cost
Implementing CD and DevOps will ultimately save the business quite a lot of money—that is a very simple and obvious fact. The effort required to release software will be dramatically reduced, the resources required will be miniscule when compared to large big bang releases, the time to market will be vastly reduced, the quality will be vastly increased, and the cost of doing business (that is, volume of bug fixes required, support for system downtime, fines for not meeting SLAs, and so on) will be negligible. That said, implementing CD and DevOps does not come for free. There are costs involved and the business needs to be aware of this.
Let's break these down:
These costs should not be extortionate; however, they are costs ...
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