Finance
Releases that wait for sign-off and a paper trail
We automate the release flows that cost you the most. The approvals your policy requires run inside the pipeline, and every production release leaves a change record your change board can check.
- Built in your repositories and accounts
Change record
Completepayments-api 2.14 to production
- Change ticketCHG-2041linked to the release
- AuthorDeveloper, payments team
- Commita41f9c2merged to main
- Approval in the pipelineChange approverNot the author
- Deploya41f9c2to production, checks passed
What slows releases
Where releases wait in a finance team
The author can't approve the change
Segregation of duties means a second person signs off. The release waits until they have time, and the approval ends up in an email or a chat thread.
The evidence is pieced together by hand
When the change board or an auditor asks who wrote, approved and deployed a change, someone collects the answer from tickets, logs and chat.
Production is in a few hands
Often only a few people may deploy to production. Every release becomes a handoff to them, and it waits when they're busy or away.
What changes
Approvals in the pipeline, evidence on every release
What a Self-Service Release Build changes, in the tools you already run.
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TodayApprovals happen in email, chat or a ticket comment, apart from the release itself.
After a BuildThe approvals your policy requires run inside the pipeline.
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TodayBefore the change board meets, someone gathers screenshots, ticket links and logs for each change.
After a BuildEvery production release leaves a change record your change board can check: approval, author, commit and deploy, retrievable in one place.
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TodayEach release is handed, step by step, to the few people who can deploy it.
After a BuildHand-run steps and handoffs become one pipeline per release flow, started by the team.
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TodayWhen a release fails, the way back is a manual fix nobody has tried before.
After a BuildEvery stage checks its own result, and rollback is tested before go-live.
Approvals are often where the waiting is. In a Release Bottleneck Review, your change board and security are in scope, and the Review measures approvals like any other step.
Results
The same release work at Nike and ASML
Results from release work at Nike (retail) and ASML (semiconductors), where manual steps and handoffs became self-service pipelines.
Nike · upgrades across 900+ stores
Multi-team server upgrades became one self-service pipeline
- Servers at the same time: 2 → 8
600+engineering hours a year at Nike
Read the Nike caseASML · release readiness
One place to judge whether a release is ready
Integration steps that ran by hand became self-service CI for multiple teams, and production machine test results went into one Python and SQL reporting view.
300+engineering hours a year at ASML
Read the ASML caseReading
More on releases in regulated finance
- ArticleDevOps Under DORA: Engineering Discipline for Regulated Financial DeliveryWhy finance teams under the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act are moving change approval and segregation of duties into the pipeline.Read the article
- ArticleAddressing Software Development Challenges in Financial ServicesThree challenges for finance engineering teams: regulation as an engineering requirement, governing open-source dependencies, and shipping fast without losing stability.Read the article
- ArticleDisaster Recovery in 2026: RTO vs RPO, the Four DR Strategies, and What EU DORA RequiresRTO and RPO, the four recovery strategies, why replication is not a backup, and how often to test a recovery plan.Read the article
Where to start
Start with your last release
The free Release Check shows where your last release spent its time and what that costs a year, in under 5 minutes and without a call.
Contact
Talk to the engineer
Book 30 minutes and bring your last release, or send a message. You talk with Mateusz directly.
