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Enterprise Release Manager
Streamline delivery of IT change through embracing “Scaled Agile” best practice.
*Enov8 ERM is now part of Environment & Release Manager.
Based on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Our ‘cloud native’ Enov8 ERM platform centrally governs all enterprise releases and deployments. Capabilities include Release Train Definition, Program Increment Planning, Product (System) Identification, Project Team registration, Project & Work Item Tracking, Environment & System Contention Management, Implementation Planning, Post Implementation Reviews and Event Deployment Tracking.
The Release Management Problem Statement
Release management, or more broadly “Enterprise Release Management”, is a leading challenge for IT organizations and departments. Ineffective Release management leads to an array of issues, including:
- Poor transparency of “organisational change” & associated “value”.
- Weak coordination across business units, projects, teams & tribes.
- Bottlenecks across key delivery areas like planning, development, build, deploy, test & compliance.
- Manual, slow and untimely IT environment service operations.
- Reliance on de-centralized tooling (spreadsheets, powerpoints & email).
- Slow and untimely executive reporting limiting management decision making.
- Poor information capture limiting measurement and improvement.
- Manual and error prone deployment and Implementation day activities.
This all translates to impact on quality, IT overspends, project delays & consequently slow delivery of change to your customers.
The Enterprise Release Management Solution
“Relase Train Use Case”
The Enov8 Release Management modules sits above the Environment Management module and provide you with a complete “Release Train” Use-Case. A framework to help you orchestrate and measure delivery across the lifecycle.
- Define your Agile Release Train (ART)
- Define the ART Program Increment (PI) schedule
- For each PI create a “Master Plan”
- Phases &
- Milestones.
- Identify your Products (Systems) are involved
- Identify what Teams (Project Teams) will support delivery
- Proactively manage System Instance Contention
- Track team-project schedules, work items & features
- Employ implementation plans
- dry run &
- production
- Orchestrate your Deployment Strategy via Runsheets
- Track Manual Tasks like Approval & Notification
- Leverage DevOps automation
- Track deployed versions
- Employ PIR (Post Implementation Reviews) to improve continually
- Use Out-of-Box Enov8 dashboards to track status
- Build your own “Information Walls”, using Enov8 data bricks, to capture and display the value and efficiency of your delivery areas.
Key Features at a Glance
Release & PI Dashboards
The Release and Program Increment (PI) Dashboards, along with Information Walls in Release Management, offer a comprehensive view of the entire release process and the current status of each release. These tools are instrumental in providing stakeholders and team members with immediate insight into potential issues or risks. They play a crucial role in enhancing collaboration across different teams.
By keeping all stakeholders well-informed and up-to-date on the progress of enterprise releases, these dashboards help maintain transparency and efficiency in the release management process. This approach ensures that everyone involved is aligned and aware of the ongoing developments, fostering a more collaborative and proactive environment.
PI Planner
PI (Program Increment) Planning, a pivotal component within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), is an extensive collaborative event. It gathers all stakeholders involved in an Agile Release Train (ART) to meticulously plan the upcoming Program Increment (PI).
Utilizing Enov8, users can intricately create Program Increment plans, complete with detailed Milestones and Phases. These plans are integral in guiding both the release processes and the participating teams or projects, ensuring a cohesive and streamlined approach to meeting the objectives of the Program Increment within the framework of SAFe.
Project Team Register
Project Registration is the process of formally adding a new project to an Agile Release Train (ART). Or more specifically, the Program Increment (PI). This process involves gathering information about the project, such as its scope, objectives, and timeline.
Once approved, the project is officially registered and added to the ART. This process helps to ensure that the project is properly aligned with the goals of the ART, as well as helping to track progress and provide visibility into the project‘s progress.
Demand Management
Test Environment Demand Management, also known as Test Environment Booking Management, is a systematic approach to managing the demand and allocation of test environments in an organization. This system plays a crucial role in ensuring that appropriate test environments are readily available at the necessary times for testing purposes. It also focuses on optimizing the usage of these test environments to minimize the need for expanding test environment capacity.
By efficiently managing these resources, organizations can significantly enhance their testing efficiency, reduce associated costs, and improve the overall quality of testing outcomes.
Implementation Planner
Implementation planning, or deployment planning, is an elaborate process that involves strategizing and detailing the execution of a project or the establishment of an organization. This process includes the meticulous determination of objectives, goals, necessary resources, timeframes, and budget allocations.
Additionally, it encompasses a thorough assessment of potential risks, the formulation of viable solutions, and the development of a comprehensive and detailed strategy for advancing the project or organization.
The significance of implementation planning lies in its critical role in ensuring the successful deployment and realization of any project or organization, underpinning its successful execution and ultimate fruition.
Deployment Automation
Deployment automation is a process that automates the deployment of software applications, infrastructure, and code changes. It reduces the time and complexity of manual deployment activities and helps organizations reduce the risk of errors.
Deployment automation also helps accelerate the release cycles and minimizes the cost of software development, as it reduces the need for manual labor.
Post Implementation Review
A Post Implementation Review (PIR) is a comprehensive process conducted after the completion of a release to evaluate its overall success. This review is aimed at identifying the successes and areas for improvement in the release or project, ensuring it met its intended goals and objectives. Additionally, the PIR serves as a critical learning opportunity, providing valuable insights from past releases to enhance the design and success of future releases.
This reflective exercise is crucial for continuous improvement, helping organizations to refine their project management and release strategies for better outcomes.
Tools Integration
Integrating with other tools like Jira or ServiceNow can be highly beneficial as it allows organizations to centralize data, automate processes, and improve the efficiency of their workflow. By connecting and streamlining different applications, organizations can save time and resources, and gain better visibility into their operations.
Enov8 allows you to easily integrate and share data with your other favourite tools using Enov8’s Webhooks & Open RestAPI.
Why Enov8 Enterprise Release Manager?
A few of the key benefits found in uplifting your Release Management capability.
IT Cost Optimization
Reduced delivery & project costs through shorter lifecycle times, better prioritisation and management of project resources and the optimised use of IT & Test environments.
Time to Value
Accelerated delivery of change through project scoping, cross project collaboration, standardization, and alignment of delivery tasks through centralised release controls.
Greater Throughput
Mitigate Failure
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