Release Management
Manage the deployment of IT solutions into the operational environment.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Release Management at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Practices are ad hoc and are on a best endeavour basis.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Implement basic release management procedures.
- Outcome
- Planning for release management is emerging.
- Metric
- # of basic release management procedures in place.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Identify and agree a formal release management process with procedures and templates for releases.
- Outcome
- Releases are managed and controlled.
- Metric
- % of releases performed in accordance with release process.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Manage and implement releases in alignment with the change management process where changes are assessed for their impact and prioritized accordingly.
- Outcome
- Provides a structured approach to releases.
- Metric
- % of releases that comply with release process
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Fully integrate release management and change management processes to allow optimization of delivery of IT solutions into operational environments.
- Outcome
- Changes and releases are optimized.
- Metric
- % of change and release activities that are integrated.