The Journey toward Continuous Delivery and Deployment: How to Start

I work with teams who are nowhere close to achieving continuous delivery, let alone continuous deployment.  Those teams are getting further and further behind where teams in other companies are on similar journeys. Often,  they don't have automated testing.  If they do,  often they are unit tests and not integration tests.  Often,  they don't have application infrastructure code and can't easily create additional environments. Often,  they work in long-lived feature branches and have teams worki...