IT Release Management

6 ◾ IT Release Management: A Hands-on Guide

the new processes and the setting up of barriers to future eorts. In an eort to try

to avoid this critical error, a readiness assessment should be completed to help set

a proper baseline. Carefully planning the pace of the implementation, and actively

monitoring the adoption and acceptance of the new process using a plan, do, check,

act approach will help to assess whether the pace of implementation is correct.

Practical Application

An issue for many who attempt to implement release management is translating

the theoretical concepts into practical application. ere is a common misconcep-

tion that every aspect of an industry standard, end-to-end release process must be

implemented to be successfu