Everybody on the same page

In the past, the release coordinator manually kept all participants up to date with emails, phone calls or a physical presence. With Tableaux everybody is on the same page because Tableaux provides a consistent, yet user-specific, view of the release.

Managing complexity

Most releases are highly parallelised, and are therefore quite complex. Tableaux helps reduce the complexity by showing progress through the release in a highly visual way.

As the release kit progresses, each of the steps lights up green or red to indicate that steps have passed or failed.

This visual display makes it possible to handle even the largest releases. When your release has dozens of concurrent steps, you'll wonder how you ever managed by hand.

Manual tasks

This world of automation is all well and good, but we realise that it's not always possible or desirable to automate some tasks.

Tableaux seamlessly integrates manual tasks into the release kit.

During the running release, each user has full visibility of their upcoming tasks, even receiving a time forecast so you know if you have time for a coffee beforehand. This time estimate is generated by Tableaux's past experience. The more Tableaux learns, the better its estimates become.

Tableaux can even send you an email when a manual task is approaching. This saves the Release Coordinator having to manually chase up staff.

Know Your Progress

It is easy to become mired in the details of a release, which sometimes makes you lose sight of the big picture. Keeping a sense of the over-all picture allows you to make the important decisions on release day.

Tableaux is constantly re-calculating the state of the release so that you don't have to. It provides key information just when you need it, to make those go/no go decisions easier.