Walmart adopted Continuous Delivery across hundreds of projects with 10's of thousands of developers, and after years of trying to improve their software development approach with processes like SAFe, they eventually achieved agility by instead focusing on the engineering problems, and fixing them using the techniques of CICD.

In this episode, Dave Farley looks into the Walmart transformation and the 8 simple, but not easy, steps that it took to achieve genuinely transformational change.

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