Microsoft® Solutions Framework Essentials

The Quiet Period

Lead Advocacy Group: Release/Operations

The period between a deployment stabilized checkpoint and deployment completed checkpoint is sometimes referred to as a "quiet period." Typically, the duration of the quiet period is proportional to the stabilization period (e.g., typically, 20 percent of the duration but no shorter than 15 to 30 days long). The purpose of the quiet period is to measure how well a solution behaves in normal operations and to establish a baseline for understanding how much maintenance is required to run a solution. Typically, this is derived from information such as the number of incidents, the amount of downtime, and other various performance metrics. This data also helps form the assumptions used by an operations ...