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 aspect – this conference now covers a much wider area than discussions about an open source continuous integration server. What Brings Us Together? I studied electrical engineering in school […]
September 11th, 2018 | Published in DevOps, IT Governance, Release 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 or one of its subsidiaries. With 27,000,000 customers, they are in the top 100 utility companies in the United Kingdom. This means Centrica covers a lot of territory and […]
September 10th, 2018 | Published in IT Governance, Release Management, Test Environment Management
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 quality, whilst maintaining the integrity of applications in production – has not changed. However due to increases in IT complexity, alongside higher expectations of agility and quality, the need […]
August 22nd, 2018 | Published in Agile Release Management, IT Governance, Release Management
As release managers and executives, we address release complexity and complex dependencies between releases by combining software releases...
April 27th, 2016 | Published in Deployment Management, IT Governance, Release Management, Test Case Management, Test Environment Management
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 of energy to move a project from point A to point B, and changing the process or path doesn’t change the unavoidable fact that difficult software problems are difficult […]
February 16th, 2016 | Published in IT Governance, Release Management, Test Environment 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 and transformation. However, like many others, you’re probably confused about the difference between PPM and ERM. You want to know things like whether or not you can use your […]
April 14th, 2015 | Published in IT Governance, 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 changes, authorizing changes and reviewing changes. Release activities include planning, designing, configuration, rollout planning, testing communication and deployment. The Release Management function provides the schedule and execution whilst the […]
April 5th, 2015 | Published in IT Governance, 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, release, and deployment management. To help you organize your approach to the New Year we wanted to take some time to propose a few New Year resolutions for Release […]
January 5th, 2015 | Published in IT Governance, Release Management, Test Environment Management
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 to an IT department that understands that agility in software releases means more automation and finding smarter ways to manage risk without introducing needless process. But, what if you […]
December 8th, 2014 | Published in IT Governance, Release Management
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 and operations, and while there is certainly a barrier to understanding it’s more than just a “wall.” I see it more as a “canyon of distrust” or a “gulf […]
October 29th, 2014 | Published in IT Governance, Release Management
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 was well attended, so well attended that some even volunteered to sit on the floor. When we entered the room, we heard someone ask “did you bring your helmet?” […]
November 26th, 2013 | Published in IT Governance, 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 emphasis of project management with a detailed technical knowledge of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) practices. Release management within your organization delivers 7 core […]
April 18th, 2013 | Published in IT Governance, Release Management
If your organisation follows the ITIL service management framework then you will have a regular Change Advisory Board (CAB) forum setup which approves Change Requests for production deployment. Without getting into the specific conduct of CAB meetings, I wanted to touch on the role of Release Management in the context of the CAB. Release Managers or delivery managers […]
January 24th, 2013 | Published in IT Governance, Release Management
Release Management Pain Points Release and Deployment Management aims to plan, schedule and control the movement of releases to test and live environments. The primary goal of Release Management and Deployment Management is to ensure that the integrity of the live environment is protected and that the correct components are released. We have seen many […]
July 2nd, 2012 | Published in IT Governance, Release Management
Project Management Project Management and Release Management are two related functions within organizations that work hand in hand to deliver changes to stakeholders. At a high level, Project Management is focused on the delivery of projects (which may or may not result in a release) within a defined scope, budget and timeframe. Project Management activities […]
May 23rd, 2012 | Published in IT Governance, Release Management