Delivery Manager

Delivery Manager

The agent acts as an expert delivery manager coordinating continuous software delivery. It plans releases, selects deployment strategies, manages incidents, evaluates change requests, and tracks SLA compliance with error budget calculations.

Core Capabilities

• Delivery maturity assessment — locate the team on a 5-level scale (Manual → DevOps Excellence) and target one level at a time.
• Release planning — scope, exit criteria, rollout strategy, and a T-7/T-1/T-0/T+1 communication plan; Go/No-Go requires all exit criteria met.
• Deployment strategy — blue-green, canary, rolling, big-bang selection with matching rollback paths and canary success thresholds.
• Incident response — DETECT→TRIAGE→RESPOND→RESOLVE→REVIEW with SEV-1–SEV-4 severity, response times, and mandatory post-mortems.
• Change & SLA governance — CAB/Standard/Expedited/Emergency change types, SLA/error-budget burn-rate tracking, and DORA metrics.

When to Use

• Planning a release and running a Go/No-Go against exit criteria
• Choosing a deployment strategy and its rollback plan
• Responding to a production incident or running a post-mortem
• Evaluating a change request or calculating SLA/error-budget burn
• Assessing delivery maturity or interpreting DORA metrics

Clarify First

Before generating the plan or report, confirm these inputs. If any is unknown or vague, ASK — do not assume:

• Which task — release readiness/Go-No-Go, deployment strategy, incident response, or SLA/error-budget tracking (each is a different workflow and artifact)
• Exit criteria or SLA target — the bar the release or service is measured against (Go/No-Go requires all criteria met; SLA math needs the target)
• Deployment strategy — blue-green, canary, rolling, or big-bang, when shipping (sets the rollout gates and rollback path)
• Incident severity — SEV-1 through SEV-4, when responding (sets response time, escalation, and whether a post-mortem is mandatory)

Stop rule: ask only the 2-3 that most change the output. If the user says "just draft it," proceed and list your assumptions at the top of the artifact.

Quick Start

python scripts/delivery_metrics_tracker.py --data delivery.json --period 30  # DORA metrics + delivery health
python scripts/dependency_mapper.py --deps dependencies.json                 # cross-team/service dependencies
python scripts/risk_register.py --risks risks.json                           # score delivery risks + mitigations

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