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Are your customers asking for more and more features?
Of course, they are! So, you would like to send your latest application to all environments as soon as possible to satisfy them. Unfortunately, if you are still releasing manually, you probably waste too much time and effort in the complexity of your release cycle to do so.
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Releasing Manually is time-consuming
Applications are more complex and require more attention to deploy properly than ever before. Human errors become inevitable due to repetitive tasks and too many scripts that are brittle and hard to maintain. Coordination and communication issues often appear and too many emails, chats and talks burden the process.
Manual deployment is error-prone and brittle
Introduction of new technologies cause environments to change that creates unintended mismatches between applications and target environments, unnecessarily triggering a restart of the release cycle - all the way from development in many cases.
Many stakeholders, different goals and tools
Developers are focused on code and components, business approvers on features, and IT on servers and infrastructure. Despite key contributions from each department, disparate and disjointed tools plague the process with inefficiencies increasing time-to-release with communications and coordination delays.
Releasing manually affects quality
In many cases, deployment and release activities will divert testing and bug fixing efforts to deployment and configuration. Without enough time to focus on tests and bugs the quality of the product is diminished. Higher cost of release also means deploying less often to further environments and catching bugs and issues later in the process where the cost of fixing them is higher, again affecting product quality and team velocity.
No Proof of compliance
Manual releases can not be reproduced so deployments are neither auditable nor repeatable.
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