Release Management
The purpose of this flash presentation is to highlight some of the key concepts and issues related to release management.
Release Management processes vary from company to company but have a general set of goals and objectives. Most companies do not have built-in infrastructure to accomodate the various facets of the release management process.
Homegrown release processes tend to depend on individuals knowing and enforcing the business practises. This works when a company has a very limited set of releases, but the process soon becomes a bottleneck and under those circumstances quality is usually the first casuality. While no process can adequately compensate for release compresssion, a standard process and integrated infrastructure can reduce time to market and quality issues.
Overall the goal must be to limit exceptions where possible, thereby reducing the need to perform extraordinary measures. Building a standard that can accomodate the service update as well as the full product or multi-product release scenarios is always challenging but essential in order to ensure quality and consistency.
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