RELEASE MANAGEMENT

RELEASE SOFTWARE AT SCALE

Planview’s release management solution enables engineering and software development leaders to tame the chaos of software releases, making them faster, more predictable, and more efficient so teams can deliver the right features, on time and on budget.

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Why Planview?

Make releases fast, predictable, smooth, and efficient with Planview’s release management software

Supporting tactical agility and portfolio-level strategy demands excellence in both software delivery and product development execution. Planview’s release management software lets engineering and software development teams balance rapid change, fast delivery, and risk management, with Planview’s automated, integrated view of your entire DevOps environment including dependencies and impact, you can reduce release complexity, speed up time-to-market, and reclaim team capacity.

Speed up time-to-market and improve release predictability

Simplify processes and connect teams to expedite delivery and meet customer and market demands.

Reclaim team capacity by automating every stage of software development

Replace overwhelming manual tasks and endless spreadsheets with automated, scalable workflows and an integrated DevOps toolchain.

De-risk software development release processes

Easily manage risks with robust governance frameworks that ensure control and compliance across your entire software portfolio

Planview’s release management solution helps overcome 6 common obstacles to software delivery success

Fragmented, disconnected, and outdated tools

Manual workflows that lead to rework and redundant effort

Invisible cross-team dependencies that slow releases down

Conflicts between Agile, waterfall, and DevOps development frameworks and timelines

Unpredictable release timing that impacts financial performance and customer satisfaction

Frequent, unplanned scope changes that prevent timely delivery

See Planview in action

Watch an on-demand demo and see how Planview’s release management solution can help you:

Accelerate releases by coordinating all activities through a single interface
Automate approvals and handoffs to make tracking and audits easy
Align every team regardless of methodology or tooling
Modernize your processes by eliminating legacy spreadsheets

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Planview is a trusted technology partner

We’ve helped organizations like yours realize the benefits of release management. See how.

Learn how Planview replaced inefficient spreadsheets at Service NSW with a single source of truth for releases that is available 24/7/365.

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See how Planview simplified, automated, and accelerated releases at eBay by replacing manual tools and improving team collaboration.

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Discover how Planview helped a leading wireless provider cut its failure rate to zero, all while more than doubling its annual release rate.

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Consistent, consolidated data

Give every team the milestones, activities and criteria they need to prevent bottlenecks and streamline releases.
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Manage workflows and integrate data from multiple DevOps tools into a centralized, authoritative source.

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Unified timeline view

A chronological look at all release-related events lets you coordinate, plan, and manage the release schedule with dependencies in mind.
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View and filter releases, events, and blackout periods on an easy to understand release calendar.

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Simplified audits and governance

Close accountability gaps with Planview’s easy-to-track audit trail.
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Enhance oversight and compliance throughout your release process.

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Proactive view of delays

Uncover potential impact on systems and identify possible regression risks in your release cycle.
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A System Impact Matrix visualizes system or application interdependencies across multiple releases.

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High-level overview

Get a consolidated look at phases, gates, activities, release management, devops practices, continuous delivery, testing, and version control.
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Capture the complete software development lifecycle, from initial idea to production

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Achieve greater visibility and decision support across agile development teams to support a strategic approach to software delivery.
- Risk management
  
  Uncover potential system impact and regression risks within the release cycle.
- Single comprehensive dashboard
  
  Track releases from idea to production, with a detailed and accurate view of project status at every stage.
- Unified calendar view
  
  See all release-related events in one place and visualize release schedules over time. Intuitive filters let you find specific releases, events, or testing phases.
- Consistent release processes
  
  Use provided templates to manage and track release cycles, deployment process, speed, and progress, for every team, regardless of development methodology.
- Apply Agile practices at the portfolio level
  
  Manage Enterprise, Product, or Independent releases to create continuous alignment and cohesion across teams no matter what the size and scope of the release.
- Kanban boards
  
  Focus on scalability and speed while monitoring the entire continuous delivery and deployment process. Manage tasks and activities directly on boards using filters based on project, phase, gate, or assignees.
Connect your DevOps toolchain into a single dashboard to accurately measure and track release management progress across the full portfolio.
- Automated release reporting
  
  Stakeholders identify progress through a consolidated dashboard with all metrics and key performance indicators for release-related processes gates and resources.
- Uncover process bottlenecks and slowdowns
  
  Assess team efficiency and productivity using end-to-end release reporting.
- Data-driven continuous improvement
  
  Analyze rich historical data after every release cycle to identify improvements or changes to release management strategy.
- Normalize data across tools for consistent metrics
  
  Connect your DevOps toolchain to create end-to-end measurement of release progress.
Use robust change control and version control processes to ensure releases, enhancements, and scope changes remain aligned with product strategy.
- Integration and real time synchronization
  
  Bring in changes from ALM tools like Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps, using configurable menus. Real time tracking reveals change status to keep all stakeholders up to date.
- Stakeholder management and coordination
  
  Track changes and necessary approvals through the Stakeholder RACI Matrix.
- Configurable, customizable fields
  
  Create custom fields in your terminology to manage release changes. Easily visualize workflows for each change to gain insight on timing and impact for all related systems.
- Model continuous improvement
  
  Connect isolated DevOps and Agile initiatives and establish common best practices to shift your organization to modern release processes.

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WHITEPAPER

The ROI of Effective Release Management

Explore the ROI of enterprise release management and get insights on how modern release management directly impacts the bottom line.

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What is Enterprise Release Management?

Explore the job functions and activities associated with release management along with concrete examples of benefits and best practices.

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Double feature throughput and accelerate your DevOps transition with Planview Release Management

This guide describes the role of the progressive release manager and the benefits of release management in advancing DevOps in enterprise organizations.

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