Slides provided during a panel discussion at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology, 2015.

1. 2015
The Cloud: Releasing
Software into
Controlled Chaos
Wednesday October 14, 2015
#GHC15
2015

2. 20152015
Enterprise Release Process
1
Multi-Release
Scheduling
Release Manager
does centralized
scheduling
2
Pre-Release
Communications
Customer
Communication
Specialist
3
Deployment
Workflow Plan
All team members
input into the plan
4
Release
Deployment
Mostly automated;
Errors/Exceptions
need human intervention
5
Release
Communications
Automated Messages
to customers providing
release status
information
6
Post-Release
Monitoring
Automated; Any
concerning metrics are
investigated by
Service Owner

3. 2015
More than deploying a software package
Providing “Always-On” Service

4. 2015
Continuous Integration
Developers
Check in
Package
+tests
Continuous Integration
Test Environment
Robots
Handle
Testers,
Release Mgrs.

5. 2015
Continuous
Integration
Continuous Delivery
Monitoring
Monitoring
Monitoring
If bad
Ifbad
RollbackReject
Production
Acceptance
Test
TestDevelopment
Intregrated
Dev. Env.
Build &
Integration
Package &
Repository
Test
Automation