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[Integrate Deployment Management with Other Practices]
An organization's end users have complained that major software updates happen during work hours, with insufficient notice, and sometimes disrupt users' work for an unacceptably long time. The deployment manager already has close alignment with the release manager and release processes, and has implemented CI/CD. What is the BEST action for the organization to take to ensure new software features are relevant to the end-users?
The issue involves poor timing, lack of notice, and disruptions from deployments, which points to deficiencies in change planning and communication. ITIL 4 emphasizes aligning deployment with change enablement to ensure changes are scheduled and communicated effectively, addressing user concerns. Option C, aligning with the change enablement manager to improve change planning procedures, directly tackles these issues by ensuring deployments are timed appropriately, users are informed, and disruptions are minimized, while also ensuring feature relevance through better planning.
Option A (Use infrastructure as code to support the software deployment): Incorrect, as IaC improves environment consistency but does not address scheduling, notice, or user relevance issues.
Option B (Embed validation and testing within the deployment models): Incorrect, as while testing improves quality, it does not resolve timing or communication problems affecting users.
Option C (Align with the change enablement manager to improve the change planning procedures): Correct, as change enablement ensures deployments are planned with user needs in mind, including timing, communication, and relevance of features.
Option D (Integrate deployment management and configuration management activities to improve version control): Incorrect, as version control enhances deployment accuracy but does not address user complaints about timing or disruption.