What Are the Various SDLC Release Management Models?

Software development teams can organize their work using various frameworks or release management models. These models help organizations implement the software development life cycle (SDLC) using different strategies to accomplish the same result. A release management model contains individual phases that software developers use to organize their work while delivering a software product or feature. Generally speaking, each model contains the following six phases: change request, planning, design & build, testing, deployment, and release support.

Release management models ensure that high-quality software is produced according to customer requirements. Various release management methodologies have been created to serve this purpose, such as ITIL, waterfall, iterative, V-model, spiral, big bang, agile, and DevOps, but there are several less popular ones that aren’t within the scope of this book. Let’s review some...