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Release management is a complex process that deals with major deployments in Application lifecycle management process. Its reach extends to hardware, applications, networks, code, cloud and anything that is broad and sophisticated enough to require a substantial amount of planning and support to successfully deliver it. How good you are at your release management skills depends not only on the release management process, but also on the success of the persons concerned, both initially and in the long run.

Release management is a high-impact method that deserves rock solid execution, so here some of the pro tips to ensure that release administrations are successful in Alm solutions.

1.Plan your release efficiently: The planning phase in an Alm process is the crucial and time-consuming phase from planning to retirement. A detailed release schedule would encourage the team to remain on track and ensure that requirement and specifications are properly followed.

There are several ways of handling a release plan. The Systems Development Life cycle (SDLC) in one of the most popular release management techniques.

With a high degree of reliability and consistency, the SDLC helps software engineers prepare, build, manage and replace software systems. The SDLC may be used by other project management processes in combination or in place. There are many approaches to handle a release schedule. The Systems Development Lifecycle is one of the most common release management techniques.

At this stage it is suggested to create workflow for both your team and key stakeholders, so they can follow it throughout the release. This workflow must include the overall structure of how the release is staged and what are the roles played by team member.

2. Releasing build: Once the release plan is decided, designing and building the product for release is finalized. Here the product is developed based on the requirements drafted in the release plan.

After fixing all the issues and bugs, it is time to prepare the product/software for the real-life testing. This could need many iterations. It is submitted to the testing environment for customer approval as the team builds the product. This helps the tea, to detect any glitches or difficulties in a real-world setting that can occur.

However, if the product is found to be faulty at this stage, it is sent back to stage two. This could be continued unless the release is finalised.

3. Testing for customer approval

Testing for customer approval or User Testing Approval (UAT) is when the end user of the product user gets to use the final product. It is either done online or shared with company employees.

It is considered one of the most important steps to release management as the user data collected during this testing could decide the final launch of the product.

4. Preparation for the final release

At this stage, final touches are given to the product from the date collected during the UAT. The release preparation is also reviewed by the QA team.

In this process, the QA conducts checks to ensure the build meets the acceptable standards and business requirements planned in the release plan.

Once everything goes well, the functional team plans for the final release for deployment upon approval from the application/software owner.

5. Deployment of release

This is the big day for any team when your final product will be released into the live production environment. but before sending the build for production, the deployment stage needs to educate and train about the application to the end user and the company.

MicroGenesis offers the best Application LifeCycle Management process to its clients in partnership with some well-known ALM partners. We possess experience across diverse domains such as Aerospace, Defence, Automobile, Manufacturing, Medical and IT .

Software has become a critical component for medical devices whether the medical device manufacturers prefer to design a new product or trying to improve the functionality of an existing one. Technology for medical equipment continues to modify and extend across all kinds of medical instruments. A key focus of medical device manufacturers must be the safety of the patients.

There are several regulatory bodies who are working across the globe to continuously monitor and report on medical device related concerns. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calls off many medical devices due to the software design. Failure to achieve the software design control guidelines and develop enough medical device software testing procedures lead to software irregularity often needing an upgrade or suspension of the medical device. This is given utmost important because of the involvement of human lives and this can also hamper the company’s reputation.

Here, the initial step to avoid software irregularities or failure and FDA recall is to understand the important of verification and validation of a medical device software along with its design, development and usage. Verification and validation testing are important step for the development of medical devices. However, it is often ignored by the medical device manufacturers and the importance it adds to the production of medical devices is ignored.

Medical device software updates are common to upgrade through the changes and user requirement and to rectify the existing errors. When a slight improvement happens without completing the required degree of verification &validation (V&V) testing, even medical device software that has undergone v & v testing is vulnerable to failure. Therefore, when it comes to the software for medical devices (SaMD) and software in a medical devices (SiMD), minor changes can have harmful impact on the functional and clinical performance of the medical devices. Thus, dependency on software functionality and the regulatory need to ensure that the software works as desired by its manufacturers.

How different is verification from validation?

Both verification and validation differ from each other. A medical device manufacturer is checking to see if the medical device software follows product standards through the evaluation process. Throughout the life cycle of medical device software creation, testing may occur. Validation checks, on the other hand, ensure that all interface criteria and planned applications are fulfilled. Validation checks include, but are not limited to, accessibility, approval checking, and alignment of data with gold standards where available.

During the development process, Medical Device Software Testing is done by verifying the functionality of each software element (input, output, estimation, etc.) independently or jointly to ensure that it satisfies the specified requirement. In a clinical or patient-care environment, software evaluation is typically done by using the completed product to ensure that it performs as expected.

Technology for medical devices are continuously evolving. To remain competitive in the medical device industry, medical device manufactures must keep looking ways for innovation and maximize ways the success of Verification and Validation software. This will ensure timely delivery medical device software development projects.