Release Management Solutions

In addition to testing, software quality assurance is dependent on other disciplines, such as Release Management, Configuration Management, and Change Management. These disciplines must be in place and followed to deliver bullet-proof software. SQA Solution is your partner in Release Management and has experience optimizing release organizations by utilizing our skilled and knowledgeable team. Many organizations outsource Release Management to SQA Solution to efficiently optimize their software organizations.

The purpose of Release Management is to streamline the development and QA of software product release cycles. The benefits are:

• Improving product-line profitability for your company.
• Liberating your engineering resources for new product development

We’ve discovered that outsourcing is a powerful resource for optimizing many aspects of release management. It can be implemented quickly and with relatively little disruption to your company’s internal activities. Outsourcing overcomes the first barrier to improvement initiatives ” overburdened employees. In addition, because outsourcing teams have already been properly trained and are proficient in the use of Best Practices, your company can benefit from their expertise without needing to prevail over internal resistance to procedure adjustments.

SQA Solution uses the following strategy for Optimizing Release Management by means of outsourcing. While working with our clients, we:

• Outsource routine release development and quality assurance functions to free internal engineering resources for more strategic product development activities.
• Use offshore development facilities to reduce the unit cost of work production, gain access to a large pool of experienced engineering and QA resources, and capitalize on time zones to compress delivery cycles.
• Institute best practices through a formal release management methodology.
• Improve efficiency through integrated release planning, construction, and testing.
• Implement a scalable model which offers variable capability to meet the highs and lows of release cycles without having daunting overhead.

Although this groundwork pertains to all Release Management Optimization endeavors, it enables significant latitude in the implementation to allow for the requirements, environment, and strategy of a specific engineering organization. For example, you could choose to:

• Outsource all release development, in addition to all QA functions, in order to focus your internal resources solely on new product development.
• Outsource specific products or product lines, such as products operating on a certain platform, products in later stages of life-cycle maturity, or products designed for a specific market.
• Outsource specific functions such as localization, QA, or driver development. This adds resources, shortens delivery dates, and focuses internal resources on core functionality.
• Use our outsourcing teams as an extension of your internal teams, or have them function as a completely independent entity.

Similarly, the underlying release management methodology can be customized to integrate with your existing tools, processes, and development strategies where suitable and advantageous.