The Release on Demand aspect enables the key business objective of delivering business value to
customers. Release on Demand is the process by which features deployed into production are
released incrementally or immediately to customers based on market demand. It is the final aspect
of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) in SAFe DevOps, which enables the delivery of value to the
end user as fast as possible, based on market demand. The decision of what and when to release is a
critical economic driver that requires careful consideration of the customer needs, market rhythms,
and economic outcomes. Release on Demand is decoupled from the Continuous Deployment activity,
which automates the migration of new functionality from a staging environment to production,
where it is made available for release. Release on Demand involves four activities: release, stabilize
and operate, measure, and learn. These activities help to deliver the solution to end users, ensure
the solution is working well from a functional and nonfunctional perspective, quantify the value
delivered by the solution, and collect feedback and prepare for the next loop through the CDP3