Release Management works closely with Change Management. Change Management is responsible for planning and Release Management for execution/implementation.
Let’s take an example from our daily lives. Whenever there is an important sewage pipe repair on a busy road,
traffic cannot be stopped immediately. City officials inform commuters through news paper ads and local TV
news that the road will be closed on a particular day and alternative routes are given. Commuters are able to
plan things in advance so that there is no disappointment and changes are done smoothly.
That’s Release Management in action.
From the perspective of IT, Release Management helps you smoothly roll out changes to your IT without any
disruptions.
• A Release plan with information about what to deploy, how to deploy and specifications in which it will
work
• The Build/change to the deployed is thoroughly tested in a sandbox conditions similar to the live conditions
• Record baseline value configuration value before the change is applied.
• Release and distribute as planned
• Verify and test if the changes requested are met