Category Archives: Release Management

Operations and Development Tear Down That Wall

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Ron B Palmer

Many IT organizations suffer from less than optimal communication between development and operations groups. This happens so often that a special term has been created to describe what happens during the transition process. IT people say that developed software is … Continue reading →

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Definitive Stores Reduce Costs

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Ron B Palmer

What happens in a typical organization when there is catastrophic damage to a hardware component that requires rebuilding form scratch? In many organizations the existing production configuration would not be definitively known and the exact version of software that was … Continue reading →

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Great Release Management Requires Project Management

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Ron B Palmer

Release management impacts every process area in the production environment. In addition its effectiveness and professionalism contributes significantly to the general perception of the development group. The most finely developed product ever is considered useless by the business if it … Continue reading →

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