Jason Gorman writes about the word “continuous” and its place in making software. We think of making software in stages (and we often assign roles to ourselves and other people based on these stages): the design phase, the coding phase, the testing phase, the integration phase, the release phase, and so on. However this approach to building and distributing software isn’t necessarily well-suited to an age where everything moves at breakneck speed and changes constantly. The moment we star...