Slides from the Jun 30th 2011 webinar "The Missing Step in Release Management"

1. The Missing Step
in Release Management
Andrew Phillips, XebiaLabs

2. Agenda
• Company
• Release Management drivers today
• Release Automation: the Missing Step
• Key considerations
• Case study
• Summary

3. "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

4. Company
• The Leading Provider of Application Release Automation
• Offices in US, the Netherlands, France, UK, India
• Customers in 15 countries
• Global Partner Network

5. Time-to-market is critical
“Our business is pushing us to deliver new features
and functions faster”
“Five Ways To Streamline Release Management”

6. Time-to-market is critical…across all industries
Retail Finance Healthcare
Government Transport
“Our business is pushing us to deliver new features
and functions faster”

7. Development organizations are adapting

8. What about Release Management?
• 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”

9. Time-to-deploy

10. Time-to-deploy
82% > 24h!

11. No deployment, no value

12. No deployment, no value
No deployment, no value!

13. What about Release Management?
“Most organizations manually deploy
application software releases with
complex and hard-to-maintain scripts.”
"Managing Between Applications and Operations: The Vendor Landscape", R.J. Colville, D. Scott

14. What about Release Management?

15. What about Release Management?

16. What about Release Management?

17. What about Release Management?

18. Time for change

19. Time for change
Accuracy. Speed. Visibility.

20. Time for change
not much room for improvement

21. Time for Release Automation
“Release management is a key
discipline that with the right
automation can significantly
improve agility and ensure more
reliable change activities resulting
in improved availability.”
"Cool Vendors in Release Management, 2011“, R.J. Colville, D. Scott (own emphasis)

22. Time for Release Automation
“25% of large IT organizations will
establish release teams that span
application development and
production focused on continuous
delivery”
"Managing Between Applications and Operations”

23. Time for Release Automation
“Application provisioning and
release automation tools can
improve the application update
process by delivering consistency
and reducing time to deploy.”
"Managing Between Applications and Operations”

24. Time for Release Automation
“increase in activity for ARA and
configuration requirements for
automating the deployment, upgrade
and configuration of custom application
software across development
environments and into production”
"Managing Between Applications and Operations”

25. Time for Release Automation
“RunBook Automation tools [...] require
significantly more investment than
release automation tools and do not
meet the needs of customers today”
"Managing Between Applications and Operations”

26. Key considerations
• “Eliminate the need to build and
maintain custom scripts for application
updates
• Add more reliability to the deployment
process with less custom scripting to
reduce configuration errors and
downtime”
"Managing Between Applications and Operations”

27. Key considerations
• “Eliminate the need to build and
maintain custom scripts for application
updates
• Add more reliability to the deployment
process with less custom scripting to
reduce configuration errors and
downtime”
Accuracy.

28. Key considerations
• “Move the skill base from expensive,
specialized script programmers to less-
costly resources”
"Managing Between Applications and Operations”

29. Key considerations
• “Move the skill base from expensive,
specialized script programmers to less-
costly resources”
Self-service.

30. Key considerations
• “Speed time to market associated with
agile development by reducing the
time it takes to deploy and configure
across all environments”
"Managing Between Applications and Operations”

31. Key considerations
• “Speed time to market associated with
agile development by reducing the
time it takes to deploy and configure
across all environments”
Speed.

32. Deployit: Release Automation
Accuracy. Speed. Visibility.

33. Deployit: Release Automation
Self-service.

34. Zero-maintenance Release Automation
• “To meet the needs of application
development, IT operations, and the business,
follow three release management best
practices:
1) build a strong release team
2) get serious about production
readiness standards
3) continuously tune release frequency
and type”
"Best Practices In Release Management", C. Schwaber

35. Zero-maintenance Release Automation
• “To meet the needs of application development, IT
operations, and the business, follow three release
management best practices:
1) build a strong release team
2) get serious about production readiness
standards
3) continuously tune release
frequency and type”

36. Zero-maintenance Release Automation
Release Automation solutions
need to adapt to your
environment and handle
changes to your infrastructure,
applications and platforms

37. Zero-maintenance Release Automation
Release Automation solutions need to
adapt to your environment and
handle changes to your infrastructure,
applications and platforms
Scalability requires
“Zero-maintenance Release Automation”

38. Zero-maintenance Release Automation
1. Import 2. Map 3. Deploy

39. Zero-maintenance Release Automation
• Full updates
• Partial upgrades
• Downgrades
• Auto-scaling
• Migrations
•…
= zero maintenance

40. Case study

41. Case study

42. Case study

43. Case study
Saving: $1m p.a.

44. Case study
Saving: $1m p.a.

45. Conclusion
1. Application Release Automation is a necessity
2. Deliver new features and functions faster
3. Meet the needs of application development,
IT operations, and the business
Accuracy. Speed. Visibility.

46. What can you do to learn more about
Application Release Automation?
• A one on one call to discuss your situation
• A full free demo of Deployit’s capabilities
• A free pilot
aphillips@xebialabs.com
www.xebialabs.com