CM Crossroads Webcast Series Accelerating Software Delivery with Integrated Change and Release Management
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Original Broadcast Date: January 31, 2007
In software development today, teams use a variety of tools for change and release management. Version control, defect tracking, project and build management tools used may be helping produce quality software, however often these tools do not work together. This can lead to poor communication and coordination, as well as manual, disparate processes. When software development teams are siloed without a unifying process, the hand-off can be slow as well. Further compounding the problem is the reality that many teams today are working in distributed environments. As a result software development happens more slowly, with greater risk of errors, and project managers cannot guarantee that the teams are working efficiently with a governed process. All of these factors introduce greater risk to the software development process.
Change and Release Management 
Original Broadcast Date: January 31, 2007 In software development today, teams use a variety of tools for change and release management. Version control, defect tracking, project and build management tools used may be helping produce quality software, however often these tools do not work together. This can lead to poor communication and coordination, as well as manual, disparate processes. When software development teams are siloed without a unifying process, the hand-off can be slow as well. Further compounding the problem is the reality that many teams today are working in distributed environments. As a result software development happens more slowly, with greater risk of errors, and project managers cannot guarantee that the teams are working efficiently with a governed process. All of these factors introduce greater risk to the software development process.
About the Presenter:
Paul Boustany is a Change and Release Management Marketing Engineer with IBM Rational Software. He has 6 years experience with Configuration Management and 9 years experience in the Software development industry. Paul has presented on Improving Project Management with Rational ClearQuest and developed various demos and other collateral on the IBM Rational Lifecycle solution. Paul also recently recorded webcasts titled “Bridging the Gap between Development and Operations with Deployment Tracking and Automation” and “A Flexible Approach to Distributed Development” which are available on IBM DeveloperWorks (www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational).
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The IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform is an integrated set of products that can be adapted to the unique needs of business and IT for delivering software and software based systems. With proven best practices and products customers can manage value to align business and IT efforts, develop flexibly to leverage resources any time, anywhere, and control risk and change to continuously measure and assess performance. The result is better alignment, control and efficiency in integrating, building and maintaining software and software-based systems.