4.1. Introduction to Release Management

Release Management is all about enabling an organization’s systems and services to change to support evolving business needs. It is the process of coordinating the movement of project into production environments where they can be consumed by end-users. The primary goal of release management is to ensure that the integrity of the live environment and protection for the correct component release. Release management is concerned with the technical deployment of IT products and features, also a broader perspective of release management includes things like adoption and business process changes related to a release.

4.2. What defines a Release?

• A team repeatedly producing quality softwares with shorter times allowing the company to be more responsive to the operating environment.

• Release breaks down team barriers across multiple functions in an IT organization which can improve product delivery holistically.

4.3. Benefits of Release Management in an organization

• Decrease the number of incidents caused by Releases.

• Maintain a single repository for recording all Releases through the lifecycle.

• Improve productivity by establishing standard release processes and tooling

• Ensure that auditable Release controls are established and documented