Come Talk to Us and Merck at Jenkins World 2018 – Booth 120
It’s that time again as Jenkins World is upon us. I love that the conference is being renamed to DevOps World as it spotlights a key…
One Company’s Success with Test Environment Management
If you live in the United Kingdom, Ireland or in the eastern United States, there is a good chance that your electricity is provided by Centrica…
The Five Tenets of Software Delivery Assurance
Delivery Assurance isn’t a new concept for companies developing and delivering software. The overarching goal – ensuring that new software is delivered on time and on…
Enabling Frequent Software Releases, Greater Independence
As release managers and executives, we address release complexity and complex dependencies between releases by combining software releases…
I Thought DevOps Integration was Supposed to be Easy?
We’ve said it on this blog before, and we’ll repeat the same message: Solving a software engineering problem is simple physics. It takes a set amount…
How Enterprise Release Management Enhances Project Portfolio Management
As a user of a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution, you’re probably hearing about Enterprise Release Management (ERM) as an emerging solution for managing enterprise change…
The Link Between Change Management and Release Management
Change Management and Release Management are different but related functions within organizations. At a high level, Change activities relate to the process of requesting changes, assessing…
3 New Year Resolutions for Release Management
Happy New Year from Plutora! We’re looking forward to the new year as we continue to develop products aimed at taking the effort out of environment,…
Here’s a Project that Demands Real Release Management Governance
Release Risk and Release Management Governance Continuous integration, continuous deployment pipelines, automated configuration and deployment tools such as Puppet and Chef all of these systems contribute…
Enterprise DevOps Governance Gates
Which side of the wall of confusion are your governance gates on? Whenever people discuss DevOps they always speak of a “Wall of Confusion” between development…
An Effective Release Management Process: 5 Key Elements
Whilst onsite to roll out Plutora within a government client recently, we had the opportunity to sit through one of their release management meetings. The meeting…
7 Benefits of Release Management
Release management is a software engineering process intended to oversee the development, testing and deployment of application releases. The practice of release management combines the business…