Release and Deployment Management Toolkit

Release Management (RM) is an important, but often neglected, practice that allows application developers and project managers to better identify potential problems, manage changes, and track the progress of software projects.

An effective RM strategy—one that adheres to the practice's complexity while harnessing its depth—can be the cornerstone of fast, flexible development. However, RM practitioners often rely too heavily on commercial RM tools, and fail to understand the concept as a whole. While RM is not an easy discipline, it need not be a difficult one.

The Release and Deployment Management Toolkit delivers the elements and benefits of a sound RM strategy and shows how to put that strategy into action. Through configuration examples and recommendations drawn from the author's considerable experience, this practical toolkit will help users to better manage and deliver Release and Deployment initiatives.

The Toolkit can be used for:

• Incorporating RM into the overall development process
• Relating test cases to requirements and tracking, assessing, and reporting on testing
• Tracing product changes
• Applying RM in different environments, including agile, iterative, integrated-product, and sequential development methods
• Employing RM in projects, large and small, for safety-critical, composite, multiplatform, and multivariant systems
• Managing multisite development
• Serving cross-organizational functions
• Integrating different RM tools
• Improving RM processes

A comprehensive guide to the current state of RM, the kit begins with an introduction to fundamental RM principles and activities and then illustrates how each can be tailored to meet a development organization's unique needs. In short, this easy-to-use reference will give organizations and individuals the tools they need to insure the integrity of their products and effectively manage the evolution of their systems.

The Release and Deployment Management Toolkits contents:

• Toolkit Roadmap - Release & Deployment Management
• Business Justification document
• Communication Plan
• Deployment Aspects to Assess
• Deployment, Planning and Activities
• DML & DS
• Forward Schedule of Releases
• Implementation Plan_Project Plan
• Policies Objectives Scope
• Release & Deployment Management Intro Presentation
• Release and Deployment Management ITILV3
• Release Review Document
• Reports KPIs other metrics
• Example of Service Manageability Tests
• Examples Business and IT Flyers

       
Greer Freyr: Useful, practical, consistent and complete

"Super - this toolkit addresses a very real problem in a very pragmatic way, and gives useful and realistic suggestions on how to solve the real world issues. The kit defines an intuitively understandable structure for Release Management, which really helps de-mystify this very complex subject. It gives a practical understanding of what can be done, how to decide what to do and what not to do - and then it tells you in detail how to do it! The combination of overview and detail, the completeness and consistency of this kit makes this a must for all software practitioners and project managers."