Who Needs Release Management, Anyway?

Release management has changed drastically in a world where some combination of DevOps, continuous deployment, feature flags and continuous integration are practiced. Since DevOps automates and streamlines development and CI/CD on a continual basis, is there still a role for release management? Someone (or some kind of automation) needs to set clear criteria for release content, dependencies, testing and quality. In this episode, we'll discuss: The role of release management in DevOps Whether or not release management is still required How DevOps and Agile changed how we perform release management How development, QA, product management and security work together to implement a release management process How automated and continuous deployment changes how we test and release software