Deployment Management is the process of planning, scheduling, and controlling the movement of releases into production environments.

It ensures that changes are delivered efficiently, with minimal risk, and meet business requirements when moved to live environments.

Ensure smooth and controlled deployments
Minimize disruption to services
Verify that the deployed changes meet success criteria

Release Management focuses on building, testing, and preparing a release. Deployment Management focuses on delivering that release into the live environment.

Planning deployments
Coordinating resources and schedules
Ensuring readiness of target environments
Post-deployment validation

The Deployment Manager leads deployment activities, with support from release and service teams.

The Service Desk coordinates with Deployment Management to inform end users, handle incidents, and provide post-deployment support.

Proper planning and scheduling
Clear communication
Effective testing before deployment
Rollback procedures in place

Through thorough planning, risk assessment, testing, and having a clear deployment strategy that includes rollback plans in case of failure.

Lessons learned from deployments are used to refine processes, reduce risks, and improve future deployments.