As agile development becomes the norm, release management has remained a major bottleneck, delaying key application deployments at a time when businesses rely on software for competitive advantage and innovation. Companies typically have manual deployment processes and scripts, which can be resource consumptive, error prone, and arduous. A variety of factors in an economy that remains both global and volatile are pushing organizations now to improve efficiency and coordination across teams to streamline processes and to automate release management.

This white paper gives an overview of the challenges release management presents, three tips for improving your software release strategies, and insight on how effective release management is poised to become a driver of competitive advantage.