Release Management – Deploy Changes without Disrupting Business
In today’s scenario with globally distributed teams, there needs to be proper collaboration and automated processes in place for the successful launch of any software. Manual build, test and deployment processes can be expensive, risky and error-prone. If you need to build software fast and reliably to meet changing business goals – without compromising on quality you need to have proper release management processes in place.
Release management can be called a software engineering process that is used by organization for the development, testing, deployment and support of software releases. This process combines the traditional project management with System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and IT Service Management (ITSM) practices. A software project before it is finally released goes through a series of processes based on good release management i.e. build a detailed plan of software implementation process.
Release Management helps maintain and track different versions of your project deliverables, along with their planned and actual release schedule and the requirements, task, bugs, changes to be resolved in each different release. It helps improve the productivity and quality of product, unifies disparate and distributed teams and provides better visibility into each change and control over the flow of changes as they flow from build to release in the project lifecycle.
Automating release management provides you with traceability across the software development lifecycle. You can not only maintain software integrity, reduce costs and risk but also control changes, improve business availability and simplify software audits. You know exactly where your project is heading and can identify and correct the bottlenecks faster.
Automating release management reduces the manual effort and helps developers and IT operations plan and collaborate on the software release right from the beginning and not at the end of a development phase. This helps management continuously identify and quantify risks, even as the application changes and release reliably and predictably.
This is not only applicable to software development, but also to any type of project where some “milestones” need to be reached. The goal of release management is to deploy application changes into production without disrupting the business.
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