Shipping fast, shipping small - how Gearset releases in vertical slices
Oli Lane on October 29th 2020
There are lots of approaches to delivering new versions of software. You can release big bundles of features all at the same time as a whole new version. Alternatively, you can release individual features one at a time, and not worry too much about version numbers. Or you can go even further by releasing features in multiple slices, iterating as you go. As with everything in software development, all of these approaches have pros and cons.
At Gearset, we favor the iteration approach - we try to slice our product work into small, vertical slices, releasing good now instead of perfect later. In this post, I'll explore why we prefer that approach, what we mean by "small, vertical slices", and how we achieve it in practice.
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