Release management

[1][2] Organizations that have adopted agile software development are seeing much higher quantities of releases[citation needed].

[3] One goal of continuous delivery and DevOps is to release more reliable applications faster and more frequently.

The movement of the application from a "build" through different environments to production as a "release" is part of the continuous delivery pipeline.

[4] Release managers are beginning to utilize tools such as application release automation and continuous integration tools to help advance the process of continuous delivery and incorporate a culture of DevOps by automating a task so that it can be done more quickly, reliably, and is repeatable.

[7] In ITIL organizations, releases tend to be less frequent than in an agile development environment.