Take a Holistic View to Optimize Release Management
Build trust by right-sizing your process using appropriate governance.
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Conducting release management without the right ownership leads to:
- Chaotic releases that teams cannot sufficiently prepare for and execute.
- Inconsistently executed processes and poor visibility and transparency.
- Disappointed stakeholders who do not receive committed releases from teams.
Standardizing your releases processes can generate:
- Grounded expectations of what can reasonably be accomplished.
- Accurate release plans because of realistic and achievable calendars.
- Reductions in process bottlenecks due to greater visibility across the entire release pipeline.
Module 1: Review Your Release Management Objectives
The Purpose
- Reveal the motivators behind the optimization of release management.
- Identify the root causes of current release issues and challenges.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Ensure business alignment of optimization efforts.
- Firm grasp of why teams are facing release issues and the impacts they have on the organization.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Identify the objectives for application release. |
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| 1.2 | Conduct a current state assessment of release practices. |
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Module 2: Standardize Release Management
The Purpose
- Alleviate current release issues and challenges with best practices.
- Standardize a core set of processes, tools, and roles & responsibilities to achieve consistency, cadence, and transparency.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Repeatable execution of the same set of processes to increase the predictability of release delivery.
- Defined ownership of release management.
- Adaptable and flexible release management practices to changing business and technical environments.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Strengthen your release process. |
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| 2.2 | Coordinate releases with a program framework. |
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| 2.3 | Manage release issues with change management practices. |
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| 2.4 | Define your release management team. |
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Module 3: Roll Out Release Management Enhancements
The Purpose
- Define metrics to validate release management improvements.
- Identify the degree of oversight and involvement of the release management team.
- Prioritize optimization roadmap against business needs and effort.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Easy-to-gather metrics to measure success that can be communicated to stakeholders.
- Understanding of how involved release management teams are in enforcing release management standards.
- Practical and achievable optimization roadmap.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Define your release management metrics. |
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| 3.2 | Ensure adherence to standards. |
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| 3.3 | Create your optimization roadmap. |
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