Description

The purpose of the value stream stage “Accept and Publish Release” is to accept the Product Release as a candidate for deployment into production. The required change authority, such as the Product Manager, accepts the Product Release for deployment and/or release into production. The Product Manager accepts the Product Release after engaging with relevant stakeholders, which includes reviewing test results to accept or reject the list of remaining Defects, and reviewing the collateral produced. In a DevOps model, Operations has been participating all along but at this point an approval is given for the Product Release to be deployed into production.

This value stream stage ensures only validated and approved release packages can be deployed into production. The release package is tagged and secured to prevent any modification at a later stage (e.g., to prevent unauthorized changes being made).