CM Crossroads Webcast Series Recession Medicine - Best Practices for Automating & Optimizing Software Development
Recession Medicine - Best Practices for Automating & Optimizing Software Development |
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Broadcast Date: Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Speakers:
In the current economic environment, software development organizations are called upon to reduce costs across the board. Development teams are being asked to deliver greater numbers of product releases more frequently using the same size team. As the workload increases, the potential for errors also increase as staff struggle to keep up with demand. The key to achieving quantifiable productivity gains lies in automation. IBM Rational Build Forge is a very flexible and customizable automation server and can be used to automate and optimize any task that is performed during the process of developing and delivering software. Build Forge can tie together many of the tools that you use in your software production activity. Join Leigh Williamson and Jason Bellomy as they examine the details of several real-world scenarios where development automation has allowed organizations to cut costs, increase productivity and deliver higher quality software faster. About the Presenters:
Leigh Williamson, Leigh Williamson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer who has been working in the Austin, Texas lab since 1988. Over that time period, Leigh has contributed to many of IBM's major software projects including OS/2, DB2, AIX, OpenDoc, Java, Component Broker, and WebSphere Application Server. Leigh is currently Senior Architect for the Rational Build Forge product and, as a member of the Core Rational Development Council, has influence on the strategic direction for all products in the Rational brand. Prior to working on Rational brand products, Leigh spent 7 years in the WebSphere development lab as architect for the systems management component of the Application Server. Leigh holds a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin.
Jason Bellomy brings more than 10 years of experience in software sales. He currently manages sales for IBM Rational Build Forge, North America. He joined the Rational Build Forge team to help drive business results and to facilitate the transition of Build Forge into the Rational brand. Prior to his current role at IBM, he managed a Rational Business Unit responsible for more than $60M in annual revenue. He holds a BA in Engineering from Texas A&M University.
About the Sponsors:
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The IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform is an integrated set of
products that can be adapted to the unique needs of business and IT for
delivering software and software based systems. With proven best
practices and products customers can manage value to align business and
IT efforts, develop flexibly to leverage resources any time, anywhere,
and control risk and change to continuously measure and assess
performance. The result is better alignment, control and efficiency in
integrating, building and maintaining software and software-based
systems.