Moving a team from quarterly drops to weekly releases is about predictability, not heroics. Tighten promotion gates, keep environments boring, and measure leading indicators like time-to-rollback and mean build health—not just deployment counts.
- Keep artifacts immutable and promotion-driven.
- Build preflight checks that are fast and noisy when they fail.
- Invest in observability before dialing up cadence so incidents get smaller, not louder.
Most wins came from deleting steps, not adding new ones. Smaller batches, cleaner feedback, calmer teams.