Where in your org structure is Release Management?

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Release Management - QA or engineering?

There seems to be some debate around where in an organization Release Management really belongs. Is release management a function of engineering, or is it a function of quality assurance or quality control? A case can be made for both, or neither.

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In the place where I currently work, the release management team is a subset of the QA team. But in my previous organization, the organization is big and the product is complex enough that we had a separate release management team reporting to a separate VP that took care of release management of a set of products.

In any case, the release management team needs to be treated as a separate stake holder so as to ensure effective implementation of processes.