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Broadcast Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Time: 11:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM CT | 2:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour  
Speakers:
Maciej Zawadzki, Co-founder and CEO, UrbanCode Inc.
Eric Minick, Lead Consultant, UrbanCode, Inc.
Francesca Matteu, Moderator, CM Crossroads
How mature are your continuous integration and continuous delivery 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 development projects has resulted in increased automation efforts throughout the lifecycle. But for some the adoption of automation has been uneven. Many software teams struggle with manual, slow, and high-risk deployments. There are many paths to improving your development automation efforts, but where do you start? In this web seminar, 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 will also help you understand industry norms and how you’re keeping up or falling behind the competition.
You’ll also learn:
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Industry norms based on UrbanCode’s experiences in the field
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Specialized practices like the build lifecycle of Scrum teams
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Identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement based on your context
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When advancing in automation maturity isn't worth the effort
About the Presenters:
Maciej Zawadzki,
Co-founder and CEO,
UrbanCode Inc.
Maciej's most recent work brings innovative solutions in DevOps, continuous delivery, and release management to the enterprise. As a speaker at national conferences and co-author of "Professional Struts Applications: Building Web Sites with Struts ObjectRelational Bridge, Lucene and Velocity", Maciej is an industry thought leader in release management and continuous integration. Prior to his work at Urbancode, Maciej wrote neural network applications to forecast stock market trends and developed software for online gaming. He received a Bachelor's Degree from Case Western Reserve University and a Juris Doctorate from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, both located in Cleveland, Ohio.
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. |
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