Workshop 1: Software Delivery Lifecycle & Baseline Measurement

Duration: 60 minutes You will leave with: an annotated workflow diagram with baseline timings for each pipeline stage.

📊 Slides: (link coming)

📓 Logbook: record today's results in your course logbook as we go.

What we do

You step into the role of a platform engineer at OrbitTasks, a 28-person SaaS startup with a slow (~13-minute) CI pipeline and a flaky test suite. We don't fix anything yet. We measure, together, live in the session.

A note on the number: ~13 minutes is deliberately slow. Even one run is a lot to sit through in a session. That discomfort is the point, and it's the motivation for everything we do in Workshops 3 and 5.

1. We map the current delivery workflow from commit through deployment.
2. We run npm run ci on the OrbitTasks codebase and record the wall-clock time per stage, together.
3. We capture observations about anything slow, redundant, or confusing.

In this workshop

• Handout: what we work through together in the session

Keep your logbook

Everything we record today lives in your course logbook. This is continuity, not an assignment: we reuse your Workshop 1 baseline numbers in Workshop 6, and everything in Workshop 8. Keep the logbook current and you're set.