Deployment workflow

A blog post – Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff Nobody Teaches You ( Link), has correctly pointed out that only few companies and teams have tried to improve in this area. A well defined procedures, using automated tools for managing work flow, will really pay off. It will make the process of software development more visible and accountable. As the author pointed out, it will help to find the problem earlier before going to production. And by using better tools it is easier to roll back the whole system to previous working state.