My team has this one shared component that gets involved in like every feature’s development. This year, we’re loading like 5 different features onto it, all with different timelines, and my head’s about to explode trying to figure out how to make it all fly.
How does everyone else do their software releases? Do you freeze prod and then do one big release later? Throw everything into prod during dev, hope no one sees the unreleased stuff, and just announce it later? Or something else entirely?
Sounds rough. My fiancé does security, and from what I’ve gathered from him, the best time for security to get involved is at the design stage. They look over the proposal, give their input, and then nobody’s surprised at release time, and teams can follow agile practices. Obviously there’s still a review of the final product, but that can be done asynchronously after the fact to confirm that best-practices were followed.
Easy to say, hard to put into practice. Certainly depends on the kind of service your business provides.