Industry Standards and Frameworks
I.
ITIL Release and Deployment Management
- A.ITIL's Release and Deployment Management practice describes planning, scheduling, and controlling the movement of a change into a live environment, typically anchored by a defined go/no-go decision point where a responsible party formally confirms readiness before release.
- B.Many organizations formalize this decision through a Change Advisory Board or a similar lightweight review; an OFA 1 will not sit on such a board, but should recognize that the launch-readiness checklist in this module is a small-scale version of exactly the same discipline used at much larger scale for major releases.
II.
Connection to Solution Assessment/Validation
- A.This module also connects directly to a named competency area in Module 1's Six Official Competency Areas: Solution Assessment/Validation, the discipline of confirming a delivered solution actually meets the requirement it was built to satisfy.
- B.Launch readiness is where that competency is applied at the specific moment a solution is about to become real for its intended users.
- C.The DevOps vocabulary introduced in Appendix H is the practical, technical language this module's checklist depends on; a learner who has not yet reviewed Appendix H should do so before attempting a real launch-readiness check.