diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 8bfb730..8373473 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -89,8 +89,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build distribution
         run: make build-dist
 
-      # Requires TWINE_PASSWORD to be configured in secrets
+      # Requires TWINE_TOKEN to be configured in repo secrets
       - name: Publish to PyPI
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
         with:
+          password: ${{ secrets.TWINE_TOKEN }}
           verbose: true
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 50c26a0..adc867e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ build-dist:
 	rm -fr dist
 	${PYTHON} -m build
 
+local-build:
+	rm -fr dist
+	${PYTHON} -m pip install .[publish]
+	${PYTHON} -m build
+
 # This target requires the TWINE_PASSWORD env variable to be set to the user's pypi.org API token.
 publish-dist:
 	TWINE_USERNAME=__token__ ${PYTHON} -m twine upload --non-interactive --verbose dist/*
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9823529..f0b34aa 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 name = "ibm_continuous_delivery"
 version = "2.0.5"
 authors = [
-    { name="Omar Al Bastami", email="omar.albastami@ibm.com" },
     { name="Brian Gleeson", email="brian.gleeson@ie.ibm.com" }
 ]
 description = "Python client library to interact with the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery Toolchain and Tekton Pipeline APIs"