Release Management Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Release Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Release Management related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Release Management specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Release Management Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Release Management improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:


1. Does the configuration management approach/methodology identify, define and reference procedures used for code, access, and media controls?
   
   

2. Is a user access provisioning process defined and implemented which authorizes, records, and communicates data and assets access changes?
   
   

3. How does your organization identify, store and protect records required to demonstrate conformity to its environmental management system?
   
   

4. What is the impact on capital allocation if you change models in the event one or more desks are no longer internal model compliant?
   
   

5. Can your organization show where changes or improvements have been made to provision as a result of user evaluations and feedback?
   
   

6. How does your organization make persons working under its control aware of the elements of its environmental management system?
   
   

7. Should your organization revise its guidance downward ahead of the next regularly scheduled quarterly earnings release?
   
   

8. Do you have a test and hold procedure requiring confirmation of negative results prior to the release of your products?
   
   

9. Why choose a specific use case when organizations can use the deployment model that makes sense for the application?
   
   

10. How does your organization make the workers aware of the intent and results of the environmental management system?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Release Management book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Release Management self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Release Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Release Management areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Release Management Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Release Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Release Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Release Management project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Management Plan: How will you coordinate Procurement with aspects of the Release Management project?
   
   

2. Team Performance Assessment: When a reviewer complains about method variance, what is the essence of the complaint?
   
   

3. Change Request: Are there requirements attributes that are strongly related to the occurrence of defects and failures?
   
   

4. Change Request: Should a more thorough impact analysis be conducted?
   
   

5. Contractor Status Report: What are the minimum and optimal bandwidth requirements for the proposed solution?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: Why do you think schedule issues often cause the most conflicts on Release Management projects?
   
   

7. Scope Management Plan: Are actuals compared against estimates to analyze and correct variances?
   
   

8. Activity Duration Estimates: Account for the four frames of organizations. How can they help Release Management project managers understand your organizational context for Release Management projects?
   
   

9. Roles and Responsibilities: Are Release Management project team roles and responsibilities identified and documented?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Is a cost/benefit analysis, a cost/effectiveness or a financial analysis considering life-cycle costs performed and is the funding of the procurement guaranteed?


 
Step-by-step and complete Release Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Release Management project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Release Management project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Release Management project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Release Management project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Release Management project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Release Management project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Release Management project with this in-depth Release Management Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Release Management projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Release Management and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Release Management investments work better.

This Release Management All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.