Why release management?

- In this chapter, we're going to…look at how we take our database,…and deploy it into production, tests,…and our shared development environment.…We're going to first discuss, why release management?…We'll talk about the mechanics of agent and…pipelines and how they apply to…this particular feature of Team Foundation Server.…We'll talk about a new feature for doing releases in…Team Foundation Server 2018 called deployment groups.…And then we'll actually get to the details of…deploying a database to SQL server.…And then we'll wrap up with continuous deployment.…

The why of release management is really straightforward.…When you do manual deployments,…you have a chance of screwing up.…As a presenter I go and speak in front of…people and I'll ask the audience members,…"how many of you do deployments manually?"…Hands go up.…"How many of you follow along to some document?"…Lots of hands go up.…And then of course, the third question is…"How many of you have made mistakes?"…Every hand should stay up.…Because that's the very nature of software development.…