1. ALMA Integrated Computing Team Coordination & Planning Meeting #1 Santiago, 17-19 April 2013 Release Manager and Acceptance Manager Roles J. Ibsen/ R. Soto/ S. Scott

2. ICT-CPM1 17-19 April 2013 n Dedicated role (original estimated effort was 0.5 FTE) in ICT n Role created in May 2011. n As of Oct 2012 being assigned to one of the ADC Software Group Managers n Reports to ICT Management, n It has been delegated full authority on release management by the ICT Management Release Manager

3. ICT-CPM1 17-19 April 2013 n Responsible for  Release planning (taking into account observatory priorities and milestones)  Monitoring the development and overseeing the integration testing process as described in the software delivery process  Discussing verification test results with/handing over releases to stakeholders n Interfaces with  Stakeholders through periodic (weekly/monthly) meetings  Acceptance Manager through acceptance process and SCCB  ICT Group Leads for release planning and development monitoring  Integration Manager and SEQM ICT Lead for integration testing and quality processes/tools Release Manager

4. ICT-CPM1 17-19 April 2013 n Infrastructure  JIRA to track development and integration test executions (provided by SEQM)  Visible to both ICT staff and stakeholders Release Manager

5. ICT-CPM1 17-19 April 2013 n Dedicated role (original estimated effort was 0.4 FTE) n Role created in May 2011. n Should report to SciOps IPT Management n Originally started as reporting to ADC because:  Both the role and associated process needed to be developed further (by a senior scientist with profound knowledge in software development processes)  It was simpler from the administrative point of view at the time Acceptance Manager