Every change that is to be introduced in the production environment must have been made in an interplayed and conscious way. The same processes, policies and guidelines when planning, creating, testing and releasing the project must be followed.

Provides deployment guidelines and support, including roles related to other parts of the release and release management process.

Defines the scope and content of the release in accordance with Release Management policies and assigns authorized changes to the "release package" and defines a schedule for the product's production, testing and commissioning.

Handles commissioning of release components to the operating environment and transfer of documentation.

This process is often called "Early Life Support" (ELS) and takes place (usually internally) during the first period after commissioning when those responsible for release and commissioning work with those responsible for incident management to solve operational problems and errors.

Release closure is the last step in the release process and refers to the formal end the release process. Overall "Change logs" are saved and there is full automated tracking for all releases and configuration changes.