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Release manager (with experience in SAFe agile)

CHANTILLY-20153, VA, US
11/25/2020

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Required Skills

analytical skills

Company

Caprus IT Inc

Experience

Job Description

Minimum 8+ years of Release management, advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle, SAFE Agile and effective leadership and analytical skills, Advanced written and verbal communication

Job description:

The Objectives and Benefits of Release Management

Effectively release management increases the number of successful releases by an organization and reduces quality problems. Productivity, communication, and coordination are improved, and the organization can deliver software faster while decreasing risk.

These improvements mean the team can repeatedly produce quality software with shorter times to market, which allows the company to be more responsive to the operating environment.

Release management also helps standardize and streamline the development and operations process. The team implements auditable release controls, thus creating a repository for all releases throughout the life cycle. Having a single, well-documented process that must be followed for all releases increases organizational maturity. Increased standardization and the focus on product allow teams to draw more useful lessons from experience and apply them in
future releases.

Operations departments appreciate the increased coordination with developers because there are fewer surprises.
They can now avoid feeling that a release has simply been “thrown over the wall” from development, leaving operations to fight fires and “patch and pray” because of short deadlines. There’s also more of an opportunity to resolve configuration issues between the development and operating environments.

In short, release management breaks down team barriers across multiple functions in an IT organization. As a result, you can improve product delivery holistically.

Responsibilities:-

Forward Plan the release windows and cycles across a portfolio

• Manage?risks?and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality

• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations

• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates

• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes

• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations

• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews

• Produce Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans

• Weekly Release Reporting

• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required

• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities

• Work with release engineers to understand impacts of upstream and Downstream application and code merges

• Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.

• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process

• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.

• Participate in?CAB?meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks

• Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists