Release management

Release management refers to the process of managing releases. It involves planning, scheduling, controlling, and monitoring the complete application life cycle of software and ensuring that appropriate feedback is provided to stakeholders for effective decision making on pushing the release to production. It also involves deployment and configuration of both environments and applications. Multiple software changes are grouped together and referred collectively as a release. Stakeholders plan and decide which changes will be part of a release. They prioritize, schedule the release, and ensure that changes go through the quality gates before they are used on production. An agile application life cycle demands frequent releases, and release management ensures that release can be planned and executed frequently without risk. The adoption of agile practices without effective release management and frequent releases defeats the entire purpose of being agile. Release management...