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- coordinating dates and resources (dba's but there other spot releases that require unix sys/winsys - andrea communicates to them for the after 5's)
- confirming packages for release have all approvals
- facilitation
Organizational/behavior challenges
- immediate gratification, resulting in quick deployments to production - cycle of activity
- inconsistent strategies and environment refreshes
- inconsistent business area involvement/capacity
- inconsistent tools used to facilitate migration
- lack of dedicated technical team to coordinate tech or data reqs and/or release implementation plans
- environment strategy challenges (not all the apps have the number of environments she recommends)
- lack of code freeze and integration testing activities
Tool changes
- Deployment Manager
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- , Jenkins, ServiceNow....
- lack of visibility or consistency in tools (there was a hearty conversation around what the release process is and the relationship to change, whether one is a step in the other, if they are parallel processes)
Next step workshop this process (Adriene to setup)