Slides from the July 25th 2012 webinar "Taking Release Management to the Next Level" with XebiaLabs

1. Taking Release Management
to the Next Level
Enable your Development and Operations teams
to Go Live faster

2. Speakers
Andrew Phillips, VP Products, XebiaLabs
Andrew is VP of Products for XebiaLabs, providers of the industry-leading
release automation solution, Deployit. Andrew is a cloud, service delivery
and automation expert and has been part of the shift to more automated
application delivery platforms. Sitting on panels and driving blog and
social media conversations, Andrew regularly contributes to key trend-
defining technology discussions.

3. Agenda
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Release Management Challenges Today
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The Missing Step: Application Release Automation
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Reaching Controlled Continuous Value Delivery
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Demo
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Q&A

4. Housekeeping
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Recording and slides will be emailed at the
conclusion of the webinar
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Please enable audio broadcast
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Please post questions in the Q&A tab
or to #Deployit on Twitter

5. Release Management Challenges Today
“Our business is pushing us to deliver new features
and functions faster”
“Five Ways To Streamline Release Management”

6. Release Management Challenges Today
Retail Finance Healthcare
Government Transport
“Our business is pushing us to deliver new features
and functions faster”

7. Release Management Challenges Today
Enabling speed of feature delivery
and maintaining control over
what goes where

8. Development & Operations are Adapting
Dev Ops
Agile
Continuous Delivery
DevOps
Private PaaS
Private Cloud

9. Release Management Challenges Today
Dev & Ops are adapting...

10. Release Management Challenges Today
Dev & Ops are adapting...
...what about Release
Management?

11. The Missing Step: Application Release Automation
"As software becomes more embedded in the
business, firms are discovering that the velocity
of business change is now limited by how
quickly they can deploy."
“Five Ways To Streamline Release Management”, J.S. Hammond

12. The Missing Step: Application Release Automation
• Fewer than 5% have release teams
focused on continuous delivery
“teams frustrated with slow software delivery
and their release management process”
“many frustrating issues that keep teams from
releasing software with visibility,
predictability, and speed”
"Release Management And The 'First Rule Of Holes'", J.S. Hammond
“Five Ways To Streamline Release Management”

13. The Missing Step: Application Release Automation

14. The Missing Step: Application Release Automation

15. The Missing Step: Application Release Automation

16. The Missing Step: Application Release Automation
No deployment, no value!

17. The Missing Step: Application Release Automation
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Dev & Ops developments make Application Release
Automation inevitable
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“Perfect Storm for ARA”

18. The Missing Step: Application Release Automation
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Dev & Ops developments make Application Release
Automation inevitable
•
“Perfect Storm for ARA”
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Release Management needs to participate
in (or lead!) these initiatives to meet our
Speed & Quality objective!

19. Reaching Controlled Continuous Value Delivery
Speed
Eliminate manual processes
Eliminate “Dev/Ops ping pong”
Reduce troubleshooting time
Enable secure self-service
Enable automated pipelines

20. Reaching Controlled Continuous Value Delivery
Speed Quality
Eliminate manual processes Increased confidence & reliability
Eliminate “Dev/Ops ping pong” Increased insight into what is
where
Reduce troubleshooting time Centralized auditing & reporting
Enable secure self-service Increased test frequency
Enable automated pipelines One best practice across
applications, technologies and
environments

21. Reaching Controlled Continuous Value Delivery

22. Reaching Controlled Continuous Value Delivery

23. Reaching Controlled Continuous Value Delivery

24. Reaching Controlled Continuous Value Delivery

25. Reaching Controlled Continuous Value Delivery
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Automating release triggers
...and more!
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Automating release approval checking
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Automating release verification
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Automating release tracking

26. Reaching Controlled Continuous Value Delivery

Automating release triggers
...and more!

Automating release approval checking

Automating release verification

Automating release tracking

Development, Operations and Release Management
delivering controlled Continuous Value

27. More Information
Email info@xebialabs.com for a 15min walkthrough
of the implementation process
Deployit: www.xebialabs.com/tour
Blog: blog.xebialabs.com
Twitter: @xebialabs
YouTube: youtube.com/xebialabs

28. More Information
Please send your questions via Twitter: #Deployit
Deployit: www.xebialabs.com/tour
Blog: blog.xebialabs.com
Twitter: @xebialabs
YouTube: youtube.com/xebialabs