Release Management
What is Release Management?
The process of planning, scheduling, and controlling software deployments to production environments while maintaining service quality.
Terms that appear alongside release management
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as release management. The number is how many controls name both.
- problem management 2 shared controls
- capacity management 2 shared controls
- governance 2 shared controls
- itil 2 shared controls
- compliance 2 shared controls
- it service management 2 shared controls
- configuration management 2 shared controls
- change management 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern release management
What the standards actually require on release management
Requirements naming release management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Puts new and changed services and features into users' hands; a release means a group of CIs, or a version of one service or other CI, made available in this way.
itil-4::5.2.9 · 5.2.9 Release management →Segregation of duties in software release should ensure no single individual can develop, compile and move code (source, byte code or binaries) between environments, and controls should maintain the traceability and integrity of all code moved between environm...
monetary-authority-of-singapore-technology-risk-management-guidelines::7.6 · 7.6 Software Release Management →Development, acquisition and release management, covering acquisition of applications, systems, databases, infrastructure and services as well as in-house development. Level 1 has eleven items (a to k): secure development rules applied;
mtcs-singapore::16.2 · Development, acquisition and release management →Where DevOps unifies development and operations to build, test and release software faster through automation, containerisation and orchestration, management assesses the risks of the approach and implements controls, since automation with frequent rapid relea...
ffiec-it-examination-handbook::DAM-V.C.1 · V.C.1 DevOps (Development, Acquisition, and Maintenance) →Quality planning defines how a supplier, external or internal, meets the quality requirements of a new project, service or software release, setting out the approach, the tools, the controls, who does what, and the deliverables and ensuring the risk-based appl...
gamp-5-good-automated-manufacturing-practice::M6 · Appendix M6 Supplier Quality Planning →IT Services Management. IT service management processes must support stable services, covering configuration management, change management, software release management, incident and problem management, and performance and capacity management (para 33).
BMA-9 · Information Technology Services Management →Questions people ask about release management
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