Release Management concepts

The Release Management application encompasses the planning, design, build, configuration, and testing of hardware and software releases to create a defined set of release components.

Release management comprises of a series of activities performed to ensure that the changes are applied successfully to both pre-production and product environments.

Table 1. Release Management concepts
Concept	Description
Products	Represents the hardware or software for which releases are built. A product can be linked with a Business Service in the CMDB to link it with other ITIL processes.
Releases	Bundles all the work done (projects, epics, stories, enhancements, defects, problems, incidents, and so on) for products or services together and ensures that these work items are built, tested, and deployed on non-production and/or production environments.
Release Phases	Represents the planned phases within a release, which are used to group the tasks required to carry out the release. For example, gathering requirements, planning, design, development, testing, and deployment.
Release Tasks	Represents any of the tasks required to implement a feature of a product.

Figure 1. Table relationships in Release Management

Note: The tables for Feature and Feature Task under a release are not removed. If you already use Feature and Feature Task under a release, you can continue doing so.

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