Scaling Continuous Integration

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Broadcast Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Damon Poole, Founder and CTO, AccuRev
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads

Continuous Integration is an increasingly popular Agile technique for discovering and fixing problems early.  Yet as larger groups start to adopt it, a problem arises.  The larger the team and the larger the product, the greater the chance that check-ins across different team members will invalidate each other.

Multi-stage continuous integration is an extension of the common practice of shielding coding changes across team members by only checking in tested changes and updating workspaces when developers are ready to absorb each other’s changes.  Each team performs a team-based integration first, and cross-integrates the team’s changes with the mainline on success.  This approach limits project-wide churn and allows scaling to large projects.

In this session, Damon Poole, Founder and CTO of AccuRev, will:

• Introduce the concept of multi-stage continuous integration
• Explain the advantages of the approach
• Guide through potential pitfalls to avoid
• Provide examples of successful implementation

About the Presenters:

Damon Poole,
Founder and CTO,
AccuRev

Damon Poole is the founder and CTO of AccuRev, a leading provider of Agile tools.  He has 20 years of methodology and process improvement experience, running the gamut from small teams to 10,000-person global development shops.  Damon is a Certified Scrum Master and writes frequently on the topic of Agile development with an emphasis on Multi-Stage Continuous Integration.  His “Do It Yourself Agile” blog is at damonpoole.blogspot.com; follow him on Twitter at Damonpoole.

About the Sponsor:

AccuRev offers solutions that optimize, automate, and accelerate the software development process for organizations using Agile, waterfall, or hybrid development process models.  Our award-winning products, AgileCycle, a comprehensive Application Lifecycle Management suite (ALM), and AccuRev SCM, a Software Configuration Management solution, allow development teams to increase throughput and release higher quality software.  Our customers benefit from integrated professional services for consulting, deployment and training.  AccuRev is used by over 600 enterprises worldwide including American Airlines, Ford Motor Company, Lockheed Martin, Orbitz, Texas Instruments, Thomson Financial, and Verizon Wireless.