When a softwareproject is about to finish, the most important task is to deliver the software into production. The goal of most projects is to create business value, and software that creates business value is by definition in production.

BestBrains often argue that this final delivery becomes easy, if the team has practiced many deliveries during the lifetime of the project, in essence acting as if they should deliver at any time.
But is it really possible to actually deliver at any time? Well, on one of our current projects here at BestBrains, this assumption was tested by our customer:

The project in question was in the middle of its fourth iteration, when our customer asked, if we would recommend against using our latest delivery for an important last-minute event with one of their customers. This latest delivery was from the beginning of the current iteration, and we knew that the customer had actually tested it. They were very confident about its quality and wanted to use the features it contained. So we said: "sure, go ahead".

After running a successfull event without support from our side, we now know that delivery at any time is attainable. It could be for you too! By Lars Thorup