CQ450G Essentials of IBM UrbanCode Release 6.2
DURATION: 1 day
SCHEDULED DATES: TBD – Contact Us for more Information
Course Description
In this course, you learn some of the basic concepts of managing releases with IBM UrbanCode Release.
IBM UrbanCode Release is a collaborative release management tool that helps you plan, execute, and track a release through every stage of the delivery life cycle, from pre-production to production.
This is a basic course for new users of IBM UrbanCode Release, such as administrators, release managers, performance testers, development teams, and operations leads. You work through a set of hands-on labs with exercises focused on building and scheduling a release with applications, running a deployment, customizing a deployment with specific applications, using advanced planning features, assessing the impact of changes and identifying areas of risk, and implementing quality controls.
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Objectives
• Describe release management challenges and solutions
• Compare the activities in release and deployment
• Explore the Pipeline view and release management concepts
• Review the contents of a deployment plan and schedule a deployment
• Create task flow and segment dependencies
• Develop strategies to customize a deployment plan
• Create changes and organize them into initiatives
• Track application dependencies with the Impact Analysis view
• Create and assign quality statuses
Audience
This course is designed for new users of IBM UrbanCode Release, including administrators, release managers, performance testers, development teams, and operations leads.
Prerequisites
• Basic knowledge of application deployment
• Basic knowledge of multitier application models
Topics
Introduction to IBM UrbanCode Release
• Release management overview
• IBM UrbanCode Release concepts
• Deployment plans
Building a release
• Release plan concepts overview
• Release plan anatomy
• Deployment plan anatomy
Customizing a deployment
• Deployment plan structure and basics
• Strategies for building deployment plans
• Advanced deployment plan topics
Identifying areas of risk
• Managing change and risk
Setting up quality controls for a release
• Methods for ensuring release quality
• Quality gate controls for the pipeline
• Process guidance for implementing quality gates
