Release management can be applied on the whole company or an organization in order to achieve great success in any given project. The first step that would be undertaken by an organization in order to implement release management is to set a group of applications to be recognized as the goal and the target of the project. These applications would include vital and essential applications such as business terms and SoX managed applications. Also schedules should be set to identify and allow changes to occur. These changes are developed and then conveyed to a production control team. The setting of these applications should be accompanied by a less known implementation which is the development of different policies for the above mentioned applications in terms of release management.
The next step is the mapping. At this step, a great amount of tension would occur. This mapping process basically studies and sets what is going to be changed and when is it going to change in respect to the current time schedule. In the usual cases, the mapping plan or vision would have two years in horizon. One year, or twelve month would be firm and ninety days would be locked. Of course, big organizations that develop services or products plan to be very responsive to the client and users. So if an organization is trying to achieve a specified goal or target, locking ninety days will obviously not work. Also there will be no horizon of two years; it would only be a six month horizon.
There is another huge problem that would face the release management of regular projects. The fact is that any given framework and time schedule includes the project itself but it doesn’t allow for the sudden changes that has to be made. Sometimes the whole plan and scope of the project can change in the middle of it which will need more time. So if the timeframe if the project didn’t account for that, it would be a major setback.
Although, once the project’s goals and requirements are set and specified clearly, there should be no delay what so ever in the deployment of the project. There also should be no need for a schedule that has more than ninety days in its horizon. In order for a release management of a project to go as smoothly as it can be, it has to account for all the above mentioned problems and address them in order to avoid any setbacks in the project.
Read more about release management at http://www.tlconsulting.com.au/testing-services/release-management
The next step is the mapping. At this step, a great amount of tension would occur. This mapping process basically studies and sets what is going to be changed and when is it going to change in respect to the current time schedule. In the usual cases, the mapping plan or vision would have two years in horizon. One year, or twelve month would be firm and ninety days would be locked. Of course, big organizations that develop services or products plan to be very responsive to the client and users. So if an organization is trying to achieve a specified goal or target, locking ninety days will obviously not work. Also there will be no horizon of two years; it would only be a six month horizon.
There is another huge problem that would face the release management of regular projects. The fact is that any given framework and time schedule includes the project itself but it doesn’t allow for the sudden changes that has to be made. Sometimes the whole plan and scope of the project can change in the middle of it which will need more time. So if the timeframe if the project didn’t account for that, it would be a major setback.
Although, once the project’s goals and requirements are set and specified clearly, there should be no delay what so ever in the deployment of the project. There also should be no need for a schedule that has more than ninety days in its horizon. In order for a release management of a project to go as smoothly as it can be, it has to account for all the above mentioned problems and address them in order to avoid any setbacks in the project.
Read more about release management at http://www.tlconsulting.com.au/testing-services/release-management
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