ITIL Release Management and Automation

Original Air Date: Thur., Feb. 09, 2012

Speaker: Eric Minick, UrbanCode Lead Consultant and Ryan Haffey, Product Specialist

Release Management is a relatively new role in most organizations. The rise of Release Management has been driven by other major trends in application development over the last decade: distributed systems using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), distributed development with outsourced and/or offshore teams, and the faster pace of releases with Agile Software Development.

These trends have conspired to increase both the complexity of releases and the cost of failure for releases — while at the same time increasing the frequency of releases. No wonder then that Release Management is in the spotlight, and under pressure to create an efficient and controlled release process. ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, provides a set of guidelines for Release Management; however, putting the generic abstractions of ITIL together into a functional system can be a daunting task.

Release Managers looking to improve the effectiveness of their release process by putting ITIL concepts into practice should join this session which will cover:

  • An overview of ITIL concepts relating to Release Management.
  • Practical experiences from multiple Release Management organizations.
  • How effective Release Management can add value throughout the SDLC.
  • How automation can improve compliance and reliability while improving efficiency.
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About the Speakers

Eric Minick, UrbanCode Lead Consultant
Eric helps customers get the most out of their build, deploy and release processes. He has automation experience throughout the application life-cycle in roles as a developer, consultant, test automation engineer, and support engineer. Eric has been at the forefront of continuous integration, and has worked on three generations of UrbanCode's Anthill. Keep up with Eric's latest insights on UrbanCode blog.


Ryan Haffey, UrbanCode Product Specialist
Ryan helps Urbancode customers find the appropriate blends of products, configuration and practices to meet their improvement goals. He also contributes to integration efforts between UrbanCode products and those of our partners. Prior to joining UrbanCode, Ryan worked in change and release management group. There, he frequently introduced automated processes and self-service web sites to eliminate errors and lower demands on his team.

About UrbanCode

UrbanCode is the technical leader in build and release management solutions since 2001. AnthillPro offers the only complete enterprise continuous integration platform with Build and Dependency Management, Deployment Automation, Test Orchestration, and Release Management. Customers in the financial, banking, insurance, software and high-tech industries achieve end-to-end automation using .NET, Java, and/or native technologies. UrbanCode's unique products integrate with SCM, issue tracking, change management, test automation and IDE tools. Founded in 1996, UrbanCode is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Contact

Greg Wunderle
(216) 367-9900
gaw@urbancode.com