Release management is the process of planning, scheduling, coordinating and controlling how software changes move from development into production. It keeps releases predictable, safe and well communicated.
CI/CD is the practice of building and testing every code change automatically, then releasing changes that pass through a repeatable pipeline. It shortens the gap between writing code and running it in production.
Feature flags are switches in code that turn features on or off at runtime without a new deployment. Teams use them to release gradually, test with selected users and disable problems instantly.
Go-live is the moment a new system, product or major release is made available to real users in production. It is the culmination of planning, testing, cut-over and readiness checks.
The software development life cycle (SDLC) is the end-to-end process by which software is planned, designed, built, tested, released and maintained. Different models organise these stages in different ways.
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