agile methodologies. As customer-led deployment became standard, it was recognized that configuration should be user-friendly. In the 1990s, tools like InstallShield became popular, providing installer wizards that eliminated the need for users to perform complex tasks like editing registry entries.

In pre-internet software deployments, releases were by nature expensive and infrequent affairs. The spread of the internet fundamentally transformed software distribution and made end-to-end agile software development