Release Manager
"Milestones may be led by individuals, but they are always achieved by a team working as a family"
My Role: Release Manager
Certifications: SAFe 5.0 Agilist, DevOps Practitioner, Release Train Engineer
Achievement: Awarded twice in 2021-22 for excellent customer delivery
As Agile methodology overtakes the industry like a storm, frequent deployments and releases have become a globally accepted standard for an application life cycle. This arises the need to adopt sophisticated release management practices which include environment planning, strategizing releases in an integrated platform environment, and great collaboration between teams.
Performing the duties of a Release Manager taught me about what entails in an integrated application's life cycle, complexities behind keeping multiple teams aligned, and the secret remedy to efficient communication
What I Do?
Release Management
A lot goes into managing releases especially when it is done for large scale projects. I have managed product releases for past 2 quarters. An essential component for release management is to strategically craft release plans for deployments and define development timelines. Further, it also involves penning down the MOP for day of deployment and executing it successfully.
I have been able to understand the gaps and optimize release processes yielding a saving of 60% in deployment time
Collborations
To make everyone collaborate and work together is highly challenging. This is what adds complexity to multi vendor projects. For my product releases, I have coordinated with 7 teams with a strength of 400members and enabled them to collaborate and work together. The overall impact of flawless collaborations slashed our product delivery time by 30%
Process Enhancement
Enhancing the AS-IS State highly depends upon restructuring the processes in a way which is feasible for workforce to accept and become a part of change. One of the tasks which consumes a good chunk of time is reporting. I have targeted this area and automated the manual reporting process. This has benefited the team with a 6man-hour reduction each day.
Servant Leader
It is must to communicate especially to enhance team's productivity. I have served scrum teams and efficiently removed impediments for them by restructuring operational processes. Overall, their productivity is enhanced by 20% and reduced issue count by ~40%