release management/deployment whitepapers.... Update...

hi,

for my thesis release management on data warehouses I an looking for articles/whitepaper about release management.
I got the life cycle management book and have been looking into the deployment chapter, that helps alot
but still need more whitepaper or best practices.
any help would be very appreciated.

I have setup a small word press website too about release management. www konings.biz

regards,

Ronald

If you are looking for proven practices of deploying between development and production environments within industry, not academic, this may help.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/infrastructure/cognos_specific/page581.html

Thanks alot, I will take a look at it.

As ITIL is more about reducing risk and providing services, it is not a very agile.
Therefor my research has changed to find the gaps between ITIL Release Management and the Kimball Lifecycle which is a more agile way of working.

I was thinking of stripping out the technology and data track and leaving the Project Management, deployment and growth part in. Also no dimensional modeling and end-user blocks.

Any thoughts on this view?

I have posted a new model for release mngt on my website:
www.konings.biz

Hi,
Agile software development methodologies have driven radically higher numbers of release events in organizations where it has been adopted. More release events have corresponded to increased pressure on release management teams and their colleagues in IT Operations to track and execute complex application release processes. Operations teams have used methodologies—such as Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL v3 Book: Service Transition (which contains a section on release management) to improve their release management capabilities as they relate to both business applications and internal IT services. Agile has also driven development and operations teams to collaborate more closely during production release events—this trend is referred to as DevOps.
Thanks

Hi,
The need therefore exists for dedicated resources to oversee the integration and flow of development, testing, deployment, and support of these systems. Although project managers have done this in the past, they generally are more concerned with high-level, "grand design" aspects of a project or application, and so often do not have time to oversee some of the more technical or day-to-day aspects. Release managers (aka "RMs") address this need. They must have a general knowledge of every aspect of the software development process, various applicable operating systems and software application or platforms, as well as various business functions and perspectives.

Hi Sonia,

thank you for your reply.
I will look into it.