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How to Prepare for Test Environment Emergencies

How to Prepare for Test Environment Emergencies

Environment “shortages” always start with a test environment emergency – some unforeseen need for a new environment. Maybe a high-profile project has both an urgent production…

The Definitive Hiring Guide for Deployment Managers

The Definitive Hiring Guide for Deployment Managers

A deployment manager on the largest of projects is a project manager who assumes responsibility for managing deployment playbooks and making sure that the sequence of…

How to Measure Release-related Downtime

How to Measure Release-related Downtime

Software releases are the single biggest factor contributing to downtime across all industries. Almost without exception whenever you hear of a high-profile outage with a bank…

frequent software releases

Enabling Frequent Software Releases, Greater Independence

As release managers and executives, we address release complexity and complex dependencies between releases by combining software releases…

Testing Against Production? Blame Your Data

Testing Against Production? Blame Your Data

Managing databases and newer, more exotic NoSQL stores is an emerging challenge in an industry under constant pressure to move faster. While the industry has perfected…

What is Test Environment Pollution?

What is Test Environment Pollution?

Test environment pollution and test environment churn are two of the biggest factors contributing to delay and inefficiency in test environment management. Test environment churn is…

How to move to a Continuous Delivery Model (Proven Experience)

A pattern we’re noticing more and more is that technology departments are starting to get out in front of the business. All too often this creates…

The Time Is Now for a Holistic Approach to IT Delivery Assurance

The Time Is Now for a Holistic Approach to IT Delivery Assurance

“To truly achieve IT delivery assurance, companies must empower program managers and delivery managers with a dedicated tool for introducing orchestrated, end-to-end control of the delivery…

Why Your DevOps Processes Need More Discipline

Why Your DevOps Processes Need More Discipline

“To keep up with increasing demand for high quality, rapid software releases, IT organizations must shift to Disciplined DevOps — an approach to software release collaboration…

Transparency and Communication: The Keys to More Agile Software Releases

Transparency and Communication: The Keys to More Agile Software Releases

Two decades makes a huge difference for software developers. We’ve gone from months-long development cycles to lifecycles measured in weeks or days, with some on the…

A Look At the ROI: Is Enterprise Release Management Worth It?

A Look At the ROI: Is Enterprise Release Management Worth It?

“In many real-world case studies, Plutora has resulted in returns exceeding 600%. A typical return is around 400% depending on the depth of using the products….

How to Reduce Test Environment Conflict

How to Reduce Test Environment Conflict

Test environment conflict is when two projects or two releases require access to the same testing resources at the same time. For a Test Environment Manager…