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Identify and remove largest constraint

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Identify and remove largest constraint

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- [Instructor] When moving to continuous delivery and automation, it's critical to run value stream or similar analysis and remove unnecessary steps in the release process. Otherwise, we might be automating unnecessary work. Automating tasks without understanding what is really slowing down delivery is a local optimization at best. We want to identify which parts of the pipeline are taking the most time and address those first. Obstacles to faster delivery can include wait time on manual activities or just lack of capacity of the delivery system. There are some easy wins. For example, increasing resources available to run the pipelines and paralyzing where possible. Whilst we have all release activities mapped in the pipeline, including manual ones, then it's a matter of analyzing the data to see which activity's taking longer, from the moment the previous activity finished until the moment the next activity in the…

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