Release Ops¶
Release operations advocates for the smooth delivery and deployment of the solution into the appropriate infrastructure. This group ensures timely readiness and compatibility of the infrastructure for the solution.
Operations Manager¶
- About
- The operations manager is the functional line manager for the team that manages the production system. An operations manager is responsible for ensuring appropriate resources are available to meet operational requirements, such as server uptime, system upgrades, deployment schedules, security concerns, etc. (The operations manager is not allowed to sleep.)
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Systems Engineer¶
- About
- The system engineer’s main goal in the context of software development is to facilitate the deployment of the physical computers, the virtual servers and services that run on them, and the deployment of project software and hardware changes to test and production environments. This is in addition to the traditional role of performing day-to-day administration and maintenance of product servers.
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Database Administrator¶
- About
- The database administrator’s main goal in the context of database development is to support the creation of database projects as well as the deployment to production of database project changes. This is in addition to the traditional role of performing day-to-day administration and maintenance of database servers.
Release Manager¶
- About
- The release manager’s role is to manage the roll-out of the product. The release manager coordinates the release with operations. They create a roll-out plan and certify builds for shipment or deployment.
- Key Responsibility Areas
- Review, track and release build packages to product baselines from pre-production environments to production environments in a structured and repeatable manner to minimize faulty product increments.
- Monitor the ongoing iteration and any critical dependencies against the product release plan and communicate adjustments to the release schedule as needed.
- Validate/review the release plan by confirming the accomplishments intended for a specified release are completed.
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Process Guidance Version: 10.4