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# Specifying Releases and Cycles

You begin the application lifecycle management process by specifying releases and cycles. A release represents a group of changes in one or more applications that will be available for distribution at the same time. Each release can contain a number of cycles. A cycle represents a development and QA cycle based on the project timeline. The releases and cycles have defined start and end dates.

You can organize and track your upcoming releases by defining a hierarchical release tree containing releases and cycles. In this lesson, you will add a release to an existing release tree, and then add cycles to the release.

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