Stabilize Release and Deployment Management
Maintain both speed and control while improving the quality of deployments and releases within the infrastructure team.
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Organizations are struggling to keep current with the constant release of new deployments, patches, and updates. Simultaneously, they are under pressure to provide near 100% availability of key business systems and ensure resources are available. Without streamlining processes, this can lead to:
- Lack of visibility into the release processes
- Poor collaboration between teams
- Ineffective manual deployments
- Poor handoffs between deployment and operations teams
A well-planned release management practice will make a significant difference to an IT organization’s value add to the business.
- Deliver IT changes faster and more efficiently with visibility into risk, impact levels, and resources
- Commit that the internal customers can use the new service as intended and designed
- Drive consistency in implementations across functional teams
- Meet auditable requirements during all service transitions
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Analyze Current State
The Purpose
- Release management improvement begins with assessment of the current state.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A solid understanding of how core operational processes are actually functioning within the organization.
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| 1.1 | Evaluate process maturity. |
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| 1.2 | Assess release management challenges. |
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| 1.3 | Define roles and responsibilities. |
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| 1.4 | Review and rightsize existing policy suite. |
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Module 2: Release Management Planning
The Purpose
- In simple terms, release planning puts all the pertinent pieces in one place.
Key Benefits Achieved
- It defines the what, why, when, and how a release will happen.
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| 2.1 | Design target state release planning process. |
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| 2.2 | Define, bundle, and categorize releases. |
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| 2.3 | Standardize deployment plans and models. |
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Module 3: Build, Test, and Deploy
The Purpose
- Take a holistic and comprehensive approach to effectively designing and building releases.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Standardize build and test procedures to begin to drive consistency.
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| 3.1 | Standardize build procedures for deployments. |
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| 3.2 | Standardize test plans aligned to release types. |
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Module 4: Measure, Manage, and Improve
The Purpose
- Determine and define the desired goals for release management as a whole.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Agree to key metrics and success criteria to start tracking progress and establish a post-deployment review process to promote continual improvement.
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| 4.1 | Determine key metrics to track progress. |
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| 4.2 | Establish a post-deployment review process. |
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| 4.3 | Understand and define continual improvement drivers. |
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