The increased amount of deployments performed in a short amount of time raises the possibility of human error, which can result in failed deployments or outages. The following tips will help stabilize and strengthen the release management process. "The ABCs of Continuous Release and Deploy in a DevOps approach" http://www.slideshare.net/Urbancode/final-24549349

1. 7 Proven Practices to Strengthen
Release Management

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You're a Release Manager
trying to release applications
to production and keep up
with business needs.

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1 Establish a single
source of truth

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When orchestrating a global application release, create
a single source of truth that will update in real time.
doing so will coordinate all parties responsible for the
release and provide visibility and traceability into who
created what, and when.

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When orchestrating a global application release, create
a single source of truth that will update in real time
Doing so will coordinate all parties responsible for the
release and provide visibility and traceability into who
created what, and when.

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2 Automate painful
tasks

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Automate as much of the deployment process as you can.
Automation provides a secure and successful way to
complete steps crucial to deployment of applications.

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Automation provides a secure and successful way to
complete steps crucial to deployment of applications.

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3
Make
“what is where”
visible

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Not knowing what is on a machine, or an environment
is exceptionally risky.

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4
Make
certifications and
approvals visible

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Define a quality gate to establish minimum entrance
requirements to an environment.
Certifications and approvals ensure quality

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Certifications and approvals ensure quality.

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5
Make the
release plan
easy to consume

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A release plan that can be edited on the fly, and easily
understood, makes it obvious to everyone what the
impact of the change is.
A release plan that can be edited on the fly, and easily

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A release plan that is too hard to understand will largely
be ignored.

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Companies can ease the pain
of deploying to production
by implementing these
release management
practices.

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