Towards an automated delivery pipeline for a typical small software company

Abstract

Due to the advancement of IT infrastructure and easy availability of different IT services, a typical small organization, which provides some form of digital services to customers tend to rely heavily on its suppliers. Achievement of organizational goals and managing the key challenges are directly involved with the entire delivery pipeline starting from the requirement to delivery of the product or service. Hence a defined delivery pipeline is required. One of the objectives to have a defined delivery pipeline is to have enough control on the entire process, so that the process can be analyzed for further optimization such as introducing automated testing, continuous integration, and eventually reduce the timeline from requirement to delivery. In this research I shall attempt to identify and capture the current delivery pipeline for PharmaServe, identify the enhancement opportunities according to the business need, and challenges it should manage for such implementation.