Death to Manual Deployments! Achieving Consistent Deployments Across Environments

Broadcast Date : Thursday, June 30, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Jeffrey Fredrick, Technical Evangelist, Urbancode, Inc.
Eric Minick, Lead Consultant, Urbancode, Inc.
Patrick Egan, Publisher, CM Crossroads

Do your software projects stumble over the deployment hurdle? If so, you are not alone. Many software projects struggle achieving consistent deployment across their environments -- from Test to UAT to Staging to Production. Successful deployments must account for differences between environments; coordinate development teams and environment owners; balance schedule pressures; and create the requisite audit trail. When these challenges are compounded by error prone, inconsistent and inefficient manual processes, achieving a consistent deployment can seem impossible. The cost of this struggle is lost time, late breaking defects, and uncertainty.

The good news is that you do not need to choose between a careful, rigorous approach and speedy but slapdash one. It is possible to implement a solution that provides consistency and audit trails while improving productivity for your release engineers, operations personnel, and testers. In this webinar, we go beyond the whys of consistent automated deployments and examine best practices, helpful tools and common pitfalls encountered when seeking consistent deployments across environments.

Join us in this webinar to learn:

• the pitfalls of manual deployments;
• cultural barriers to improving deployment processes; and
• best practices, such as self-service deployments.

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.