What Problems Does DevOps Release Management Try to Solve?

A conventional IT organization has extremely long development cycles by today’s standards. In these antiquated companies, capacious amounts of manual testing must usually occur prior to a software product being released to production. What’s more, any time there’s a code change, it can cause a remarkable amount of stress on the stakeholders involved. While working in organizations such as these, development teams typically wait for clean environments to be provisioned or they must wait for approval prior to making any changes at all. Additionally, quality assurance (QA) teams might be waiting for developers to finish their work before it is ready for testing. All of this waiting results in low deployment frequency (DF) and high lead time for changes (LTFC).

Furthermore, in traditional IT organizations, many team members drop off after a project is finished, leaving little documentation behind and zero...