Release Management

Development

Release Management is responsible for designing and building new versions following the guidelines defined in the relevant RFCs.

This development work is sometimes done in-house, but in many cases requires the involvement of external service providers. In this latter case, the role of Release Management is to ensure that the hardware or software package or packages offered meet the specifications described in the RFC. Release Management will also be responsible for the complete configuration process necessary.

This development must include, if necessary or advisable, all the installation scripts needed for the deployment of the version. These scripts must take into account aspects such as:

• Automatic data back-ups.
• Any updates that need to be made to the associated databases.
• Installation of new versions on different systems or at different sites.
• Creating the logs of the installation process.

An integral part of the development work is drawing up the associated back-out plans. These need to take into account the availability agreed with customers in the relevant SLAs.