In DevOps we spend a lot of time discussing the best way to deploy software and the various ways to monitor our deployed application, but sometimes we overlook the Release process. When we release software we’re not so much performing an engineering task as we are supporting a business function with technical expertise.

In this talk we’ll break down some of the objectives of a release along with the corresponding product and business activities and how we can leverage DevOps to support them. We’ll talk about the importance of UX and how our approach to releases can impact our users.