Danielle Baker had an interesting post over on PMHut about Project Management vs. ITIL release management.

It seems that quite a few people are confused by the distinction. In fact, I’ve even noticed that senior IT managers don’t understand the difference between implementing a PMO, an SDLC, or implementing ITIL. I guess most C-Level’s just want to make sure they can check off all the buzzwords in the weekly "buzzword bingo" meeting with one another.

"Hey Bob, we got ITIL goin’ on over there?"

"Yeah, Steve, we’re all over that one… Check!"

"Okay, Bob, How about some of that there PMO? I heard that’s purty powerful good stuff…"

"Sure, Steve, we’re bought two of those, in case the first one goes down…"

"Swell, Bob, that’s great,we have hot-swappable PMO’s in case our UPS doesn’t engage fast enough — you can’t be too safe…"

Anyway, enough jabbing of the elite by us in the proletariat. What’s the real difference between Project Management and Release Management?

Here, I’ll summarize it for you. Projects happen once. Releases keep happening. As a result, you need a slightly different way to manage each.

As an example, a full "project" may entail a number of releases. But then again, each release could be it’s own project.

I’m sure it’s all better now… or maybe you should read the article at PM Hut.

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