IT landscapes tend to be more and more complex. The need for data access anywhere at any time forces us to use new technologies, adopt cloud solutions and integrate existing legacy systems. Agile processes, rapid deployment and the tools to support them have become a priority, over more a need, for companies. To maintain these landscapes, the need for Release Management Automation arises.

1. NRB RELEASE MANAGEMENT AUTOMATION
26/05/2016 – NRB Mainframe Day
YANNICK STILLER
Manager SAP Strategic Solutions

2. 1. Introduction
2. Content: 3 pillars
3. The Past: Old Way of Working
4. Today: New Way of Working
5. Key Takeways
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3. 3
Daily use
Integrated with customer processes
Integrated with internal processes
(ITIL, Change Mgt, Config Mgt,…)
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INTRODUCTION
End-to-End Release Management Process

4. 4
CONTENT
3 pillars
CHANGE & STACKEHOLDER
MANAGEMENT
 Operational team <-> Training
 Management team <-> Training
 Management NRB <-> Alignment
 ALM <-> Processes Definition
 IT customer <-> Processes Definition
 Business customer <-> Information of Processes
 MO <-> Tooling
 Mainframe engineers <-> Alignment & Tooling
RM PROCESS
 Process framework done with customer
participation
 Alignment with Change Management
 Alignment with DevOps
 Full customer testing environment
TOOLS
 Workbench
 RTC
 UrbanCode

5. THE PAST
Old Way of Working
TEST ACC PROD
System Integration
Testing
Performance Testing
User Acceptance Testing
Development
Unit Testing
Copy load modules
DEV
Build ( Compilation) Build ( Compilation)
Individual management of releases
No release process
No communication
No release window
No consolidation

6. TODAY
New Way of Working
TEST ACC PROD
RTC
Check-in &
Deliver
RD&T DEV – Team 1 RD&T DEV – Team
2
UCD
Packaging
Build (
Compilation)
Build (
Compilation)
Build (
Compilation)
Copy load modules
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System Integration Testing
Performance Testing
User Acceptance Testing
Unit Testing Unit Testing
UCR
Release planning
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** RD&T – Installation & Configuration require a NRB System Engineer
Copy load modules
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** Deployment of the load modules is done by UrbanCode Deploy
Between TEST – ACC and ACC - PROD

7. DEVOPS MATURITY TARGET

8. No BIG BANG
Definition of the process with all
stakeholders (internal & external)
Change management enablement is key
Define & execute prerequisites
Measure competences > motivation
Key Takeways
Wrap Up

9. QUESTIONS?

10. WWW.NRB.BE