CM Crossroads Webcast Series Continuous Integration Maturity: Beyond Builds
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How mature are your Continuous Integration and automation practices? Where can you get the most improvement based on your specific problems and needs? How are other organizations solving these same problems? In recent years the role of automation in software development has expanded dramatically. The collision of the Agile practice of Continuous Integration with the realities of enterprise development projects — where large projects, distributed teams or strict governance requirements are not aberrations — has resulted in increased automation efforts throughout the lifecycle. Top performing teams tie their automation efforts together into an end-to-end solution that enables them to deliver changes faster with higher quality, and with more control for less effort. But despite these benefits the adoption of automation has been uneven. Many software teams struggle with manual, slow, high-risk deployments. Others use release processes that are efficient and safe enough to deploy to production many times a day. There are many paths to improving your development automation efforts, but where to start? When seeking these benefits it is useful to have a guide. In this webcast we will present a simple model for scoring the maturity of your organizations automation efforts across the development lifecycle, including Build, Deploy, Test and Release. This model is based several years of first-hand experience with hundreds of teams and reports from the field. With this model you can understand the industry norms so you know where you’re keeping up and where you’re falling behind. Join us to learn:
About the Presenters: Jeffrey Fredrick,
Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognized expert on Continuous Integration. As an 18-year veteran of the software industry Jeffrey brings the perspective of having performed and managed virtually every role in the software development lifecycle. An early adopter of XP and Agile software development, the top committer for CruiseControl, and with 9 years of leading continuous integration efforts, Jeffrey has consistently been at the forefront of the industry. Jeffrey is currently indulging his passion for improving how software is made as an Technical Evangelist at Urbancode, as the organizer of the Silicon Valley Agile Meetup, and as the Co-Organizer of the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON). About the Sponsor:
Urbancode is the technical leader in build and release management solutions since 2001. AnthillPro offers the only complete Enterprise Continuous Integration platform to get your builds and deployments under control. Replace manual script-driven bottlenecks with web-based self-service automation. Provide agility & control in harmony with fast feedback and audit trails. Customers in the financial, banking, insurance, software and high-tech industries achieve end-to-end automation using .NET, Java, and/or native technologies. Urbancode's unique products integrate with SCM, issue tracking, change management, test automation and IDE tools. Founded in 1996, Urbancode is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. |
