IT Release management plays a very crucial role in every software assignment/ project as it is concerned with the delivery of a high quality product to the end users and IT organizations. Release management is also a significant part of quality management as it is concerned with the provision of high-quality software to the users. Free and open source software is known by its highly iterative development model in which the new development releases are generally made accessible very frequentl...

Release Management is as important as any of the ITIL processes that normally take place in the IT Lifecycle of an enterprise. The importance of a sound Release Management plan is quite obvious if we look at the challenges that organizations are facing when deploying or upgrading applications, hardware components. The key objective is to protect the live environment whilst enabling changes and enhancements to be implemented in a controlled manner, in order to minimize the risk of business pr...