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    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.

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    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
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    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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      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.

      Release Management
      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
      Table relationships
      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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