Out-of-date; Out-of-touch. The Business Case for ALM Transformation

Broadcast Date : Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Time: 08:00 AM PT / 10:00 AM CT / 11:00 AM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Kevin Hancock, Senior Director, Worldwide Field Operations, CollabNet
Tracy Ragan, Consultant, OpenMake Software

Look into the quality, efficiency and agility of your current development platform.
Are legacy systems holding your company back?
If you can't trust the processes and systems supporting the applications that differentiate your business, then you are living dangerously.  And you probably don't even know it.
 
CollabNet and OpenMake have joined forces to help companies breakthrough these technical constraints with an open and scalable environment that meets their unique business need to transform. There is no reason to be locked into an obsolete platform.  Our speakers have been involved with a number of recent transitions from legacy Build, Issue and Version Control systems to include:
 
Build: Make, Serena ConfigBuilder, custom build scripts
Issue:  Bugzilla, Bugtracker, VM, Serena Tracker/TeamTrack
Versioning:  Serena PVCS, RCS, CVS, Visual SourceSafe, Rational ClearCase, StarTeam
 
This is a practical session sharing lessons learned and how guidance and enablement paved the way for change.  Our experts will demonstrate an integrated Application Lifecycle Management platform to:
•           Get your ALM in sync with the business
•           Ease user insecurity over change
•           Increase velocity with Continuous Integration and Build Automation
 
Attendees will be the first to receive a copy of a new white paper on ALM Transformation.

About the Presenters:

Kevin Hancock
Senior Director, Worldwide Field Operations, CollabNet

In this role Kevin is responsible for building out CollabNet's partner distribution channel and acting as the major customer advocate across the CollabNet organization. In his ten plus years at CollabNet, Kevin has led the successful implementation of CollabNet products and services at some of its largest customers. Working with his clients to transform their globally distributed application development teams to modern agile enterprises, he has saved these organizations millions of dollars.

Tracy Ragan
Consultant, OpenMake Software

Tracy Ragan has had extensive experience in the development and implementation of business applications. She began her consulting career in 1989 consulting to Fortune 500 organizations in the areas of testing, configuration management and build management. It was during her consulting experiences that Ms. Ragan recognized the lack of build management procedures for the distributed platform.  In the years leading to the creation of OpenMake Software, she worked with development teams in implementing a team-centric standardized build management process.

About the Sponsor:

CollabNet is the application lifecycle management platform leader for distributed software development teams. CollabNet’s TeamForge is the most open and extensible platform supporting heterogeneous environments, methodologies, and technologies. With an integrated suite of easy-to-use tools that share a centralized repository, it is the only ALM platform architected for a culture of collaboration. By design, this enables visibility around the entire development process. Teams of any size, working any where are empowered by the most advanced web 2.0 platform that simplifies software delivery. Millions of developers worldwide use CollabNet to reduce costs and accelerate innovation.