Define a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting Value
Use your releases to drive business value and enhance the benefits delivered by your move to Agile.
Member Challenge
- Your software platforms are a key enabler of your brand. When there are issues releasing, this brand suffers. Client confidence and satisfaction erode.
- Your organization has invested significant capital in creating a culture product ownership, Agile, and DevOps. Yet the benefits from these investments are not yet fully realized.
- Customers have more choices than ever when it comes to products and services. They require features and capabilities delivered quickly, consistently, and of sufficient quality otherwise they will look elsewhere.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Eliminate the need for dedicating time for off-hour or weekend release activities. Use a release management framework for optimizing release-related tasks, making them predictable and of high quality.
Impact and Result
- Develop a release management framework that efficiently and effectively orchestrates the different functions supporting a software’s release.
- Use the release management framework and turn release-related activities into non-events.
- Use principles of continuous delivery for converting your release processes from an overarching concern to a feature of a high-performing software practice.
Research & Tools
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1. Define a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting Value Deck – A step-by-step document that walks you through how to develop and implement a release management framework that takes advantage of continuous delivery.
This presentation documents the Info-Tech approach to defining your application release management framework.
It includes the guidance from our research along with exercises that are specifically defined to help the user build a release management framework.
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Define a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting Value – Phases 1-4
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2. Define a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting Value Template – Use this template to help you define, detail, and make a reality your strategy in support of your application release management framework.
The template gives the user a guide to the development of their application release management framework.
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Define a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting Value Template
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3. Define a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting Value Workbook – This workbook documents the results of the exercises contained in the blueprint and offers the user a guide to development of their release management framework.
This workbook is designed to capture the results of your exercises from the Define a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting Value blueprint.
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Define a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting Value Workbook
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