Enabling Self-Service Builds in the Enterprise

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Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Jeffrey Fredrick, Technical Evangelist, Urbancode, Inc.
Eric Minick, Lead Consultant, Urbancode, Inc.
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads

Large organizations often feel the classic tension between centralized and decentralized development infrastructure. A centralized approach promises better compliance to standards, better economies of scale, and lower switching costs when moving staff between projects. Despite these potential advantages project teams often fight for a decentralized approach, arguing that relying on the centralized team will slow them down and cost them their ability to adjust, their agility. To respond to these arguments infrastructure teams are replacing the traditional rule-based approach with a user-centric self-service model that offers the best of both worlds.

In this webinar Jeffrey Fredrick and Eric Minick will share their practical experience in implementing self-service build automation in an enterprise environment. For teams looking to provide a common infrastructure to replace a hodge-podge of systems, or who are looking to quickly onboard new projects so that you can scale with control, this webinar will outline how you can get the most out of a common infrastructure while maintaining the agility for your client projects.

Topics covered will include:

• The benefits of a self-service build infrastructure.
• Pitfalls in implementing a common build system.
• The organization savings from tool consolidation.
• How a common build platform can help bridge organizational silos.
• Managing in-house and open-source dependencies.

About the Presenters:

Jeffrey Fredrick,
Technical Evangelist,
Urbancode, Inc.

An internationally recognized expert on Continuous Integration, Jeffrey Fredrick is an 19-year veteran of the software industry who has 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 a 10-year veteran of leading Continuous Integration efforts, Jeffrey has consistently been at the forefront of the industry. He currently indulges his passion for improving how software is made as a 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).

Eric Minick,
Lead Consultant,
Urbancode, Inc.

Eric Minick is a lead consultant at Urbancode where he helps customers get the most out of their build and release processes with AnthillPro. He has 8 years of automation experience throughout the application life-cycle in roles as a developer, test automation engineer, and support engineer. Eric has been at the forefront of continuous integration for 6+ years and has worked on all three generations of Urbancode's Anthill. Keep up with Eric's latest insights on the Urbancode blog.

About the Sponsor:

Urbancode is the technical leader in Agile 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.