tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20798681.post115682034187712178..comments2023-10-30T02:24:00.642-07:00Comments on The Spot for ITIL Service Management: Project Management vs. ITIL Release ManagementUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20798681.post-71032871847639612702011-07-27T10:13:46.162-07:002011-07-27T10:13:46.162-07:00Thanks for your comment. We value all feedback fro...Thanks for your comment. We value all feedback from the user community. It's our objective to provide timely and practical ITSM related information to assist with the common challenges we all face in helping our organization to adapt to the ITIL way of managing, supporting and delivering IT services.<br /><br />We have many contributors to the blog from the ITSM community. In fact, most of our posts are authored by some experts in the field who have delivered ITSM services for many of the Fortune 500 companies over the past decade.<br /><br />The Release vs. Project Management post was authored by a Senior Consultant from Red Engine Consulting.<br /><br />Thank you again for your comments. We invite you to continue to check back often for new posts.<br /><br />- The ITSMspot TeamAdministratorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15094790222483504001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20798681.post-73122942912231074842011-07-25T16:32:13.313-07:002011-07-25T16:32:13.313-07:00I like the explanation of release versus a project...I like the explanation of release versus a project. Many people say upgrades are not projects just SOP. However, we note that you do not execute upgrades every day and if it requires a large amount of communication, adds functionality and has a beginning and end (unique), we say it is a project. As you point out, the project can have one or many releases. I would like to reference this explanation. Who do I give credit to?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20798681.post-61471797927830557122010-11-09T21:51:07.845-08:002010-11-09T21:51:07.845-08:00Great post! Thanks for explaining the difference b...Great post! Thanks for explaining the difference between Project Management and Release Management.<br /><br />PMs really got confused about their difference. Anyway, this helps and means a lot. Keep it up!Nathaniel @ project management institute certificationhttp://www.pmtrainingonline.com/site/1648622/page/2879637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20798681.post-1074585523895017242008-08-17T20:58:00.000-07:002008-08-17T20:58:00.000-07:00This is a question we get a lot. And the answer is...This is a question we get a lot. And the answer is always that it depends. Remember that Release Management is a Process while Project Management is a function. The difference is that one is a process (group of related activities) and the other is a group of people. <BR/><BR/>The Release Management process is made up of the Release activities as defined by ITIL. Those who perform these activities are usually from several functional areas (i.e. QA, Dev, Infras. Deployment, Architecture etc.) <BR/><BR/>Therefore, the Release Manager (process owner) may be part of any functional organization as long a he or she has the visibility and the authority to be effective in managing the Release Management process. <BR/><BR/>As for the PMs, ususally they report to a centralized PMO function or to the individual functional areas. This depends on the prferences of the organization.<BR/><BR/>Hopefully this answers your question. The key is to try not to think of process managers as manager so people or even of a specific task (i.e. deployment, testin etc.) but as managers of the end to end process ensuring that it meets its defined objectives.<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/><BR/>ITSMSpot ConsultantsAdministratorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15094790222483504001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20798681.post-61138849663751831352008-08-15T03:53:00.000-07:002008-08-15T03:53:00.000-07:00Organizationally, how are release managers and pro...Organizationally, how are release managers and project managers positioned? Are they on the same team? Who do they report to?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891382942760022085noreply@blogger.com