Plan & Approve Deployment Stage

Description

The purpose of the value stream stage “Plan & Approve Deployment”` is to create a deployment plan for a Digital Product and, based on this plan, to sign it off with all relevant stakeholders.

The details of the plan and the extent of approval required depends on the complexity of the deployment.

Table 1. Plan & Approve Deployment Value Stream Stage

Entrance Criteria:

  • A Product Release in a fully-tested form

Exit Criteria:

  • An approved deployment plan

Value Item:

  • Ensuring that production deployment is not a surprise to any part of the organization, and that the resources needed for deployment are available

Activities:

  • Shall estimate the time for deployment and associated service downtime if any

  • Shall ensure resources are available for the full deployment, including the validate and observation stage

  • Shall plan a deployment time based on effort, resources, and corporate policies

  • May validate Knowledge Items exist for open, accepted Defects and work-arounds that are part of the Product Release

  • Shall obtain necessary approval for deployment as per the organization policy

    This typically includes but is not limited to approval from:

    • Operations teams for increased operations support

    • Support teams for the potential increase of support needed, as well as training

    • Security operations for sign-off on product security mandates

    • Legal teams for any potential license and copyright issues with product

Examples of Participating Stakeholders:

  • Operations Manager

  • Product Manager

  • Release & Deployment Manager

Participating Data Objects (Component):