develop a software system, the technology that is employed by them, and the organisation of the process of development. In today's ever growing size and complexity of software projects, steering committee are investing into processes cope with the business stakeholders demand.
High cost project, late delivery, resource dependence are all symptoms of lacking processes.
The role of IT is to deliver software products to the business with minimal disruption. As a customer, I experienced the disastrous go-live of Navitaire New Skies ticketing system at Virgin Blue.
Here is a Release Management process I've developed for many clients to introduce "quality gates" into their SDLC. You may have notice that this process have emphasis on the Quality Assurance Testing phrase, from experience solid testing will yield good outcomes.
