Policy : Enable Just-in-Time Production

Commitment to Timely, Responsive Delivery
We believe that delivering value just-in-time—when it’s needed, not just when it’s ready—enables agility, reduces waste, and improves responsiveness to change. By decoupling deployment from release and aligning provision to demand, we create systems that are both fast and flexible.

What This Means
We adopt practices that allow teams to deploy frequently while retaining control over when features are released, infrastructure is provisioned, and data products are activated. Just-in-time production is not about delay—it’s about precision and adaptability.

Our commitment to enabling just-in-time production is built on:

• Frequent Deployment, Controlled Release – Features are deployed early and often but held behind feature flags or toggles until the business or user context is right.
• On-Demand Infrastructure Provisioning – Platform services only provision infrastructure when needed, avoiding pre-allocated capacity and reducing cost and waste.
• Build and Deploy Artefacts On-Demand – Artefacts are created when they’re required, not in advance. This avoids stale builds and enables tighter control of what goes live.
• Decoupled Deploy and Release via Toggles – Feature flags and toggles allow changes to be shipped independently of go-live decisions, supporting safe experimentation and gradual rollout.
• Versioned, Demand-Driven Data Products – Data assets are versioned and made available dynamically based on usage patterns and access requests, improving freshness and efficiency.

Why This Matters
Stockpiling code, infrastructure, or data leads to waste, rework, and complexity. Tightly coupling deployment and release reduces flexibility and increases risk. Just-in-time production reduces lead time, enables safer delivery, and allows teams to respond more intelligently to evolving needs.

Our Expectation
All teams must design systems and workflows that support just-in-time behaviours. This includes adopting feature management practices, using dynamic infrastructure provisioning, and aligning data access to real-time demand.

To support this policy, teams will be guided by standards for feature flag governance, build-on-demand strategies, and dynamic provisioning. By enabling just-in-time production, we reduce delays, waste, and friction—delivering the right value at the right time.