The aim of the Accelerate Value Delivery process goal is to optimize aspects of how our team works (collaborative aspects are addressed by the Coordinate Activities process goal). As a result, this process goal encompasses critical decision points around work organization, deployment, configuration management, and quality assurance (QA).

Why This is Important

Optimize our organization. For our team to work together effectively we want to optimize our team structure, how we approach working together, and the flow of our work.
Streamline deployment. For our deployment efforts to be effective we must choose the best strategy that our team is capable of and actively plan our approach with applicable stakeholders such as operations engineers and release managers. We will need a strategy for how we release internally, such as into a demo environment or testing environment(s), and how we will release into production.
Support a DevOps strategy through streamlining and automation. A key component of any DevOps strategy is automation of operational functionality to monitor and control running systems. In combination with automating your continuous integration (CI)/continuous deployment (CD) pipeline, this is often referred to as an "infrastructure as code" strategy.
Build quality activities into our process. We want to build quality into our process from the very beginning of the life cycle, including both validation and verification (V&V) strategies. Ideally we want to avoid injecting quality problems to begin with, typically through continuous collaboration, but failing that we want to find any potential defects as early as possible to reduce the average cost of fixing them. This is often referred to as a "shift left" strategy.

Important questions to consider

How can we organize our team structure to improve our overall effectiveness?
How can we optimize our overall way of working (WoW)?
How can we do to improve the flow of work?
How will we deploy our solution?
How can we automate our technical infrastructure?
How will we manage the assets that we produce?
How will we manage the configuration of our assets?
What strategies will we follow to validate our work?
What types of testing will we need to perform?
How will we assure stakeholders that the quality of our work is sufficient?
How will we maintain traceability, if at all?

Key Points

Teams should actively streamline their team structure, WoW, and flow.
Teams should actively streamline work through automation.
When deployment isn’t (yet) fully automated, it will need to be planned for with appropriate stakeholders from operations.
Teams actively test their work throughout Construction, building quality into the entire life cycle.