Manual Release Processes - “Time to Make the Donuts”
Every time that I got up at 2am in the morning to drive into the office and monitor the progress of our monthly release - I was reminded of the Dunkin Donuts "Time to make the Donuts" ad from the early 1980's.
Like this ad - the tools we were using to coordinate our release process were artifacts of the 1980's.

Clyde Logue is co-founder of, and Vice President of Product Management for, StreamStep. Prior to co-founding StreamStep, Clyde was Director of Release
Management at Liberty Mutual, where he oversaw and lived the challenges of release management
firsthand. At Bottomline Technologies, Clyde led product management for enterprise and banking industry customers. Previously, he co-founded
mValent (acquired by Oracle)