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How Can You Solve Today’s “My-Hair’s-on-Fire!” Release Challenges?_top_challenges_and_solutions-20180328b

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The complexity of application release management has grown significantly as teams must deliver innovation with greater speed and quality to meet demanding user expectations. DevOps teams use many specialized tools for dev, test, project management, and ITSM. But they operate in silos, making it hard to get a view of the end-to-end delivery pipeline.

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How Can You Solve Today’s “My-Hair’s-on-Fire!” Release Challenges?
Why that’s a huge problem. How to solve it. The complexity of application release management has grown significantly as teams must deliver innovation with greater speed and quality to meet demanding user expectations. The heterogenous nature of large enterprise releases often requires multiple release trains that combine both slower moving legacy systems of record, and faster Agile systems of engagement. DevOps teams use many specialized tools for dev, test, project management, and ITSM. But they operate in silos, making it hard to get a view of the end-to-end delivery pipeline. Managing all of this has mainly been a manual process, with lots of spreadsheets, emails, and meetings. Extracting data for analytics and dependencies is cumbersome. An inability to enforce governance and compliance results in schedule risks and release failures that impact revenues and reputation. Here’s a look at your top release management challenges and how you can solve each of them. What’s happening in the enterprise.
Business demands have Agile dev teams producing builds at high velocity and with more capabilities than ever before, but production incidents can cripple the company and send customers permanently to the competition. But those speedy agile teams have to coordinate with slower moving teams running the back-end business critical apps on legacy systems. And failing an audit? Can. Not. Happen. Oh, is that all? You got this. First you need to create well-structured, repeatable release plans that centralize activities and enforce quality gates. Then you need to integrate with the disparate delivery team tools to collect and correlate data for a wholistic view of activities and associated metrics. This is the framework you need to plan and orchestrate complex releases across the portfolio to reduce schedule and quality risks. CHALLENGE SOLUTION Faster TTM! Better quality! Ensuring compliance! Build predictable, high quality enterprise software releases at scale with Plutora Release Align teams with a centralized release calendar. Generate RACI matrices and maintain an auditable history of release artifacts. Leverage Plutora Environments to get test environment scheduling and configurations under control. Plutora Release enhances predictability and speed of software delivery by providing visibility and control over the entire release process and portfolio. 1 ALM ITSM PPM
…asks your CIO. You feel like a deer in the headlights. And for the rest of the day you’re scrambling to gather information from different tools and scheduling a bunch of status meetings. There has to be a better way for you to extract metrics and reports of release health for stakeholders! “What is the status of this release and does it contain all the changes the business needs?” “It used to take us an entire day to gather reports to share with leadership and the CIO. With Plutora, they can just log in to get rich, contextual insights.” Senior IT Manager at a leading Texas-based technology company You need instant access to metrics and reports of the health of all your enterprise releases in one place so when someone in business or IT leadership asks you about anything, boom, you can get back to them right away. Even better, stakeholders should automatically receive reports on release health without having to ping you or your team. CHALLENGE SOLUTION 2
Plutora Release helps delivery teams adapt to change with intelligent tracking of interrelated releases. Identify all systems impacted by a release with an easy to read report built from default or customized queries. View the nature and amount of the dependencies, whether code is required from upstream projects or regression testing is needed. Create additional dependencies such as configurations required from other systems. You just found out there’s a schedule slip in one of your release trains. What other systems are impacted and in what way? The answer to this will take some time if you have to start opening folders filled with spreadsheets hunting for clues because they lack the intelligence to identify system dependencies and project relationships of heterogeneous enterprise releases. Plus, are you confident that all those spreadsheets are up to date? You need a live, multi-dimensional view of all releases and their relationships with different systems and projects across the portfolio. You can better adapt to change by understanding the ripple effect of schedule slips or changes in scope with just a few clicks. That lets you focus on solving the problem instead of having to waste time on figuring it out. CHALLENGE SOLUTION 3 ! ! !
Some of the world’s best release management teams have seen dramatic improvements with Plutora Release. Request a tailored demo to see how Plutora can help you increase velocity and quality in your release process. “Increased productivity of global engineering team that supports 50 applications with up to 50 weekly releases.” “Reduced rework, improved release processes, and lowered the risk of release failure for 300+ software releases/year.” Leading healthcare provider in the USA visit www.plutora.com

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How Can You Solve Today’s “My-Hair’s-on-Fire!” Release Challenges?_top_challenges_and_solutions-20180328b

  • 1. How Can You Solve Today’s “My-Hair’s-on-Fire!” Release Challenges?
  • 2. Why that’s a huge problem. How to solve it. The complexity of application release management has grown significantly as teams must deliver innovation with greater speed and quality to meet demanding user expectations. The heterogenous nature of large enterprise releases often requires multiple release trains that combine both slower moving legacy systems of record, and faster Agile systems of engagement. DevOps teams use many specialized tools for dev, test, project management, and ITSM. But they operate in silos, making it hard to get a view of the end-to-end delivery pipeline. Managing all of this has mainly been a manual process, with lots of spreadsheets, emails, and meetings. Extracting data for analytics and dependencies is cumbersome. An inability to enforce governance and compliance results in schedule risks and release failures that impact revenues and reputation. Here’s a look at your top release management challenges and how you can solve each of them. What’s happening in the enterprise.
  • 3. Business demands have Agile dev teams producing builds at high velocity and with more capabilities than ever before, but production incidents can cripple the company and send customers permanently to the competition. But those speedy agile teams have to coordinate with slower moving teams running the back-end business critical apps on legacy systems. And failing an audit? Can. Not. Happen. Oh, is that all? You got this. First you need to create well-structured, repeatable release plans that centralize activities and enforce quality gates. Then you need to integrate with the disparate delivery team tools to collect and correlate data for a wholistic view of activities and associated metrics. This is the framework you need to plan and orchestrate complex releases across the portfolio to reduce schedule and quality risks. CHALLENGE SOLUTION Faster TTM! Better quality! Ensuring compliance! Build predictable, high quality enterprise software releases at scale with Plutora Release Align teams with a centralized release calendar. Generate RACI matrices and maintain an auditable history of release artifacts. Leverage Plutora Environments to get test environment scheduling and configurations under control. Plutora Release enhances predictability and speed of software delivery by providing visibility and control over the entire release process and portfolio. 1 ALM ITSM PPM
  • 4. …asks your CIO. You feel like a deer in the headlights. And for the rest of the day you’re scrambling to gather information from different tools and scheduling a bunch of status meetings. There has to be a better way for you to extract metrics and reports of release health for stakeholders! “What is the status of this release and does it contain all the changes the business needs?” “It used to take us an entire day to gather reports to share with leadership and the CIO. With Plutora, they can just log in to get rich, contextual insights.” Senior IT Manager at a leading Texas-based technology company You need instant access to metrics and reports of the health of all your enterprise releases in one place so when someone in business or IT leadership asks you about anything, boom, you can get back to them right away. Even better, stakeholders should automatically receive reports on release health without having to ping you or your team. CHALLENGE SOLUTION 2
  • 5. Plutora Release helps delivery teams adapt to change with intelligent tracking of interrelated releases. Identify all systems impacted by a release with an easy to read report built from default or customized queries. View the nature and amount of the dependencies, whether code is required from upstream projects or regression testing is needed. Create additional dependencies such as configurations required from other systems. You just found out there’s a schedule slip in one of your release trains. What other systems are impacted and in what way? The answer to this will take some time if you have to start opening folders filled with spreadsheets hunting for clues because they lack the intelligence to identify system dependencies and project relationships of heterogeneous enterprise releases. Plus, are you confident that all those spreadsheets are up to date? You need a live, multi-dimensional view of all releases and their relationships with different systems and projects across the portfolio. You can better adapt to change by understanding the ripple effect of schedule slips or changes in scope with just a few clicks. That lets you focus on solving the problem instead of having to waste time on figuring it out. CHALLENGE SOLUTION 3 ! ! !
  • 6. Some of the world’s best release management teams have seen dramatic improvements with Plutora Release. Request a tailored demo to see how Plutora can help you increase velocity and quality in your release process. “Increased productivity of global engineering team that supports 50 applications with up to 50 weekly releases.” “Reduced rework, improved release processes, and lowered the risk of release failure for 300+ software releases/year.” Leading healthcare provider in the USA visit www.plutora.com