RE: Moving projects from development/test to production

Dennis,

You guessed correctly that this is ITIL based. I completed a Foundation certificate in ITIL way back in '96 when it was still UK based more than what it is now. The principles still stand, and the organization I worked for implemented some kind of CMDB. Unfortunately, they got into very low level details for the Cis and the project became too big to get off the ground.... One needs to find a balance. OTOH, the tools to help implement ITIL have come a long way since and I mentioned some good ones (at least ones that I have seen).

Most of ITIL is just common-sense distilled into a framework for IT processes that define what an IT organization needs to get things done properly. However, in my limited understanding, the IT scene and organizations changes direction and in leadership so rapidly that one needs an evolving plan.... (to say the least).

John Kanagaraj
DB Soft Inc
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM]
>Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:55 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>Subject: RE: Moving projects from development/test to production
>
>
>Helmut
> I don't think this is off-topic, but something that many of
>us Oracle
>DBAs wrestle with.
> If you kept John Kanagaraj's posting yesterday on the DBA Support
>Database topic, it contains the "big picture". If you didn't
>keep it, email
>me privately and I'll send it. I believe he is referring to the ITIL
>standards body. There is probably an ITIL user group near you
>or a company
>that gives talks from time to time. That is the easiest way to get an
>overview of ITIL. Our organization is "evolving" in that
>direction. Overall,
>this is a long-term commitment by your organization. You don't change
>everything overnight.
> One immediate change you can implement is a "staging"
>system. Most of us
>currently have a test or development system. Staging is an
>exact copy of
>production in all respects. From the database side, cloning
>the database or
>using RMAN DUPLICATE works very well. Then the development team makes a
>release to you. Ideally this is on a CD-ROM labeled 1.1 or
>whatever. You
>take the CD-ROM and instructions and apply the changes to the staging
>server. Then the staging system is tested. If it is deemed
>satisfactory,
>then you schedule a time and make the changes on production.
>If it fails the
>testing or you are unable to apply the changes, then it gets
>bounced back to
>the development group. The release may include application or
>web server
>changes that must be coordinated with database changes. This is a small
>change, but it has helped our releases.
>
>Dennis Williams
>DBA
>Lifetouch, Inc.
>dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:59 AM
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>
>
>Hi!
>
>A somewhat off-topic question this time.
>
>I am put in charge of defining the procedure of moving projects from
>test/development into the production environment. This is to
>be seen from
>the entire IT-perspective (i.e. not just databases, but also
>Unix, Oracle
>and SAN). I.e. we should come up with check-lists and the
>like; although
>having an eye on quality assurance...
>
>We urgently need to set procedures up for that since the last
>time this was
>a nightmare...
>
>Did anybody out there work on a similar project? What are the
>procedures
>that you are following?
>
>Any input would be appreciated.
>
>This is 9.2 on HP-UX 11.
>
>Thanks,
>Helmut
>
>
>Helmut Daiminger
>
>WWK Lebensversicherung a.G.
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