Description

Understand what really happens between “the code is done” and “the feature is live.”

CI/CD and Releases for Product Managers

CI/CD and Releases for Product Managers explains that process from a Product Manager’s perspective—without requiring you to code or become a DevOps engineer.

You’ll follow the journey of a feature from commit to production, understanding what happens at each stage, why releases sometimes get delayed, what can go wrong, and which questions a PM should ask along the way.

Most importantly, you’ll understand a distinction that changes the way you think about launches:

Deploying is not the same as releasing.

A feature can already be running in production without being available to users. Once you understand this, concepts such as feature flags, progressive rollouts, rollback strategies, and safer releases become much easier to discuss with Engineering.

What you’ll learn

You’ll learn how CI/CD pipelines work, what builds and automated tests do, why teams use different environments, and what staging and production actually mean. You’ll also understand deployments, releases, feature flags, progressive rollouts, rollbacks, hotfixes, release trains, release freezes, and the additional complexity of mobile releases and app store approvals.

The book also explores the Product Manager’s role in a release: identifying dependencies, understanding technical risks, coordinating launches, deciding whether to continue or stop a rollout, and responding when something goes wrong.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Product Managers and Product Owners who work with software teams but don’t have a technical background.

You don’t need to know how to code. You don’t need previous DevOps knowledge. And you certainly don’t need to learn how to configure a CI/CD pipeline yourself.

You need to understand how the system works well enough to participate in the conversation.

By the end of the book, terms such as pipeline, staging, deployment, production, rollback, feature flag or hotfix will no longer feel like Engineering jargon happening somewhere behind the scenes.

You’ll understand what they mean for your roadmap, your launches, your users, and your product decisions.

Fewer black boxes. Better conversations with Engineering. Better product decisions.