Integrated planning
Good planning and management are essential for successful deployment of a release into production across distributed environments and locations. It is important to maintain an integrated set of transition plans that are linked to lower level plans, such as release build and test plans. These plans should be integrated with the change schedule and release and deployment management plans. Establishing good quality plans at the outset enables service transition to manage and coordinate the service transition resources (e.g. resource allocation, utilisation, budgeting and accounting).