Policies
Policies represent the governance being applied to the release and deployment management process. A policy describes the rules and boundaries being applied to the process to ensure appropriate controls are in place. This ensures consistency and repeatability but also identifies the level of flexibility a practitioner has when executing the process, procedure, or work instruction. The policies will be discussed in more detail with examples in the following sections.
Release content
Release content is the policy that will define what will be contained in a release. A release can contain a single change, multiple related changes, one or more changes and a related release (often called a release package), and one or more additional releases. Based on the definition of a release, a release must have at least one approved change in it. In some organizations, all changes must be implemented into the production environment through release and deployment management. If this is...
