Key Terms

Calendar-based management of a set of application releases across various life cycle stages: schedule/scope, construction, verification, deployment. Refer to About Release Trains.

Manages the release of a specific instance of one or more applications through a release train. Refer to About Application Releases.

A deliverable attached to an application release.

A way to ensure exit criteria is met for each stage in a release train. Refer to Exit Criteria for Stage Gates.

Date-based activities against which progress can be measured. Milestones are typically interim deliverables within a lifecycle stage. Refer to Milestones.

A scheduled deployment. Refer to About Turnovers.

A set resources to which turnovers are deployed. Refer to About Environments

A template of ordered deployment tasks. Refer to About Runbooks and Deployment Tasks.

A step or set of steps in the deployment process. Deployment tasks can be manual or executed in Release Automation. Refer to Deployment Tasks.