Plutora’s Real Benefit: Fewer Meetings

Release managers understand what it means to have a triple-booked Outlook calendar.  They have calendars subject to rapid last-minute changes as project timelines slip and environments issues cause a series of fire-drill emergencies to be solved right now. Most release managers spend all day, every day in a series of meetings trying to glean the truth from project teams having little time to record information in ad-hoc Excel spreadsheets.

This is what the pandemonium of release management without Plutora looks like.  It is an Outlook calendar full of meetings, meetings about meetings, overlapping meetings, meetings for developers to complain about BMC Remedy, and meetings to respond to downtime caused by environment contention and preparation issues.  In summary, the calendar shown below is the disaster that most release managers are familiar with. There’s not even time to eat lunch this schedule is so busy.

With Plutora your schedule has fewer meetings because Plutora is connected to the systems that are capturing project status continuously. Instead of having to sit in on project meetings just to understand what is happening, your master release schedule in Plutora is going to be updated as issue status is updated. Your environment managers are going to address environment contention and conflicts before they become a problem, and your teams will spend less time dealing with outages and more time on proactive planning informed by accurate reports. Developers won’t need to be trained on how to file BMC Remedy change requests because Plutora can automate these connections.

More important than all of that, with Plutora you can have lunch without feeling guilty for missing more meetings.

Dalibor Siroky

Dalibor is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Plutora. He has 15 years of leadership, consulting, enterprise product, and operations experience across Australia, Asia and Europe. He has proven ability to build high performance teams, turn around situations, develop innovative products, and create lasting value. Prior to Plutora, Dalibor was founder and managing director of Finotaur, a leading provider of independent management consulting services. Before that he served as CIO of financial advisory software at Macquarie Bank, head of solution architecture at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dalibor got his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Follow him on Twitter @DaliborSiroky.