IT Release Management

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Chapter 3

Release Management

andProject Management:

Kissing Cousins

e organization has now matured to the point where release management can be

introduced, a proposal is prepared, and it is presented to the Chief Information

Ocer (CIO) and IT management; the feedback is, “We already have project man-

agement. It looks like release management is the same thing. Why should we dupli-

cate our eorts?”

is reaction is not unusual. ere is a general confusion that release manage-

ment and project management are one in the same, and to the untrained eye there

are many similarities. However, there are distinct dierences in goals and objec-

tives. W ...