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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.
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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
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 Broadcast Date : Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Time: 09:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM CT / 12:00 AM ET
Duration: One hour
Speakers:
Darryl Bowler, Senior Systems Architect, Services, CollabNet
Early and continuous delivery of valuable software is the number one principle behind the Agile Manifesto. That’s why agile practices demand looking beyond code, to build and test. Continuous integration (CI) and test-driven development are accepted as critical elements to accelerate the software delivery process. However, exclusive focus on automating the build and test process is not enough. A key benefit of CI is the ability to effectively close the loop between development, build and test, and back, through continuous information flow. By gaining timely visibility into build and test results, development teams can be more proactive in dealing with defects, and project teams gain vital information into each build, including which requirements have been addressed. This increases team productivity and accelerates faster delivery of high-quality software.
Attend this session to:
• Understand the fundamentals of closed-loop CI
• Hear practical examples and case studies from implementations of a CI solution
• Learn how to effectively integrate tools like Hudson or Jenkins with ALM solutions
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Broadcast Date: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Time: 11:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM CT | 2:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour
Speakers:
Eric Minick, Lead Consultant, Urbancode, Inc.
Many development, test, and project managers see the deployment process as a cruel puzzle and a risky business. Not only do components often go to different servers, interdependencies between components and tiers demand that everything aligns perfectly. A single mistake often results in delayed releases—or worse, system failures.
Complex application deployments place strain across the organization. The resulting high anxiety around releases, finger pointing across the organization, and internal pressure for fewer releases frustrate development and operations even as the business is demanding more. The good news is that your organization can get deployment challenges under control.
Eric Minick explains in this web seminar:
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What process automation can and cannot do to help deployments
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How to consistently promote complex applications through environments
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Strategies to ensure the whole system is deployed with the right versions
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When and when not to trust test results
You’ll also learn how to create more consistent and repeatable deployments through new tools and deployment strategies based on automation and scripting.
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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.
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 Broadcast Date : Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour
Speakers:
Theresa Lanowitz, voke, Inc.
Cloud computing is happening in a big way. No wonder: infrastructure-as-a-service, resource elasticity, and user self-service promises huge, visible, and fast returns.
The needs of software development and testing for scalable, flexible, compute-intensive IT infrastructure makes it an incredible candidate for the benefits of cloud computing. Whether it is vast clusters for testing, dozens of machines to run ALM tools, or the requests for “just one more box,” development and test teams are always asking for something , it is always changing, and time is of the essence.
Join us as Theresa Lanowitz, the founder of analyst firm voke, discusses the utilization of cloud resources for test and development. Theresa will share research showing how this approach can lead to lower costs, more productivity, and more predictability.. Joining Theresa will be Anders Wallgren, CTO of Electric Cloud, who will show how task and workflow automation, resource management, and tool integrations allow test and development teams to effectively use a cloud infrastructure.
Attendees of the event will receive the voke Market Mover ArrayTM Report: Testing Platforms with detailed analysis on Electric Cloud.
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  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.
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the pitfalls of manual deployments;
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cultural barriers to improving deployment processes; and
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best practices, such as self-service deployments.
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 Broadcast Date : Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Time: 11:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET Duration: One hour Speakers:
Sivakumar Kalyanaraman, IT Architect, Cognizant
QA teams today are required to validate beyond functional and nonfunctional aspects of systems developed and to engineer them to deliver a user experience that exceeds expectations. These systems under test need to handle exceptional situations to prove that they can address business demands. One way to achieve this is to reengineer performance disruptions so that systems can achieve higher levels of scalability and performance. This web seminar will help you experience "newer realities" of quality and explore avenues to enable business assurance through engineering. You'll learn proven ways to redefine aspects of system performance including but not limited to capacity, availability, security, scalability, performance, and reliability; and to successfully adopt virtualization techniques and cloud models. |
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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.
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Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour 
Speakers:
Michael James, Software Process Mentor and Recovering Architect at CollabNet, Inc.
Patrick Egan, Publisher, CM Crossroads
The teams that shape the future will be innovative, and not just productive. It turns out significant ideas have emerged from collaboration rather than the mythical lone genius. But not all teams do well, even with Scrum or related approaches. This session explains research from outside the world of software development that would benefit anyone working with small teams.
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Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour 
Speakers:
Paul Peissner, Director of Business Development, CollabNet
Julie Byrne, Product Manager, CollabNet
Patrick Egan, Publisher, CM Crossroads
As companies struggle to gain competitive advantages in the marketplace, Software Development is fast becoming one of the most strategic areas of focus. Business is pushing for more agile application lifecycle management (ALM) processes to release innovative ideas into the market more quickly. They are placing pressure on Operations to roll products and changes into live environments at an unprecedented pace. Several challenges arise:
- the volume of ideas and change requests often out-paces development efforts and resources,
- completed agile projects face many challenges in successfully rolling out as new applications,
- and the business is growing more skeptical that their software teams can produce reliable and adaptive services.
DevOps is the big picture vision that enables organizations to coordinate innovation and high quality agile development efforts to produce high value applications and services that grow the business. Join us for this webinar as CollabNet’s Paul Peissner and Julie Byrne discuss the DevOps dilemma and describe how companies are enabling business agility with DevOps and Agile ALM.
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Broadcast Date: On Demand Duration: One hour
Speakers:
Jeffrey Fredrick, Technical Evangelist, Urbancode, Inc.
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads
Ten years on from the Agile Manifesto, the collection of practices and methodologies known as Agile Software Development continue to gain ground. There is no longer a question if Agile has "crossed the chasm": Gartner now predicts that by 2012 Agile Development methodologies will be used by 80 percent of all software development projects. But the Agile of 2010 is not the same as the Agile of 2001. Agile has expanded from small co-located teams to large-scale distributed development. This move into the mainstream has changed both the attitudes and practices of Agile.
As quickly as Agile has grown, it has been paced by the development of Continuous Integration. Starting from a developer-centric Agile practice, Continuous Integration has evolved to include the new stakeholders in Agile organizations: QA, Project Managers, Release Engineers, and even Operations. This change change in practices involve yet more people, helping expand the footprint of agile at the same time.
In this presentation Technical Evangelist Jeffrey Fredrick will review the growth of Agile and the development of CI into the practices of Continuous Deployment and DevOps. Join us to learn:
- Process and tools should be driven by interactions and individuals
- Automation can make people more human
- Why automated Continuous Integration is the mostly widely adopted Agile practice
- How the spread of Agile led Continuous Integration to evolve in Continuous Deployment and DevOps
- A prediction on how Agile and Continuous Integration will co-evolve into the future
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 Broadcast Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET Duration: One hour
Speakers:
Damon Poole, Founder and CTO, AccuRev
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads
Continuous Integration is an increasingly popular Agile technique for discovering and fixing problems early. Yet as larger groups start to adopt it, a problem arises. The larger the team and the larger the product, the greater the chance that check-ins across different team members will invalidate each other.
Multi-stage continuous integration is an extension of the common practice of shielding coding changes across team members by only checking in tested changes and updating workspaces when developers are ready to absorb each other’s changes. Each team performs a team-based integration first, and cross-integrates the team’s changes with the mainline on success. This approach limits project-wide churn and allows scaling to large projects.
In this session, Damon Poole, Founder and CTO of AccuRev, will:
- Introduce the concept of multi-stage continuous integration
- Explain the advantages of the approach
- Guide through potential pitfalls to avoid
- Provide examples of successful implementation
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  Broadcast Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour
Speakers:
Matt Klassen, Manager, Strategic Solutions, MKS
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads
Companies that produce software intensive products, such as those in the aerospace, automotive, medical devices, and high tech electronics industries, face overwhelming complexity in managing a proliferation of product variants, many 3rd party suppliers, decreasing cycle times, stringent regulatory compliance and a velocity of change never seen before. Can ALM manage this level of complexity?
This Webcast will discuss why traditional ALM solutions fall short of meeting the challenges faced by today’s software-driven engineering organizations. Learn why engineering organizations must go beyond disjointed and loosely coupled software development environments to a purpose built solution for software driven innovation that unifies the artifacts, processes, and disciplines of product engineering. By improving the way they build and manage software-intensive products, companies can reduce the barriers to innovation, deliver products to market more quickly, and drive increased market share.
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Broadcast Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour 
Speakers:
Bob Jenkins, Director, Subversion Services, CollabNet
Paul Burba, Subversion Engineer, CollabNet
Patrick Egan, Publisher, CM Crossroads
Subversion, the industry’s leading version control tool, has numerous features that are critical to enterprises like yours. The appropriate use of those features can make a lot of difference in the success and return on investment an enterprise gets from Subversion.
Most enterprises find themselves with multiple lines of development in process simultaneously that need isolation. The logical way to accomplish that isolation is through branching, but the need for isolation is normally short lived before the work needs to be merged with changes made on other lines of development. That means merging. Of course you want to know what has been merged to what and you want the tool to facilitate subsequent merges by utilizing that knowledge as well. That means merge tracking.
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  Broadcast Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour
Speakers:
Usman Muzaffar, Vice President of Product Management
Patrick Egan, Publisher, CM Crossroads
Cloud computing is happening in a big way. No wonder: infrastructure-as-a-service, resource elasticity, and user self-service promises huge returns.
Software development and test’s need for scalable, flexible, compute-intensive IT infrastructure makes it a great customer for the benefits of cloud computing. Whether it is vast clusters for testing, dozens of machines to run ALM tools, or the incessant requests for “just one more box,” development teams are always asking for something and it is always changing.
Because of these unique needs as well as security concerns, many enterprises are turning first to building a private cloud -- run by IT, used by development -- within their own firewall.
This webinar will present a blueprint for creating a private development clouds that enables IT to provide infrastructure as a service to developers. With an emphasis on build-test-deploy tasks, we will show how task and workflow automation, resource management, and tool integrations allow development teams to effectively use a private cloud infrastructure and run these tasks in a shared environment. We will also discuss how IT organizations at leading enterprises have leveraged Electric Cloud solutions to transform generic grid and VM infrastructure into private development clouds tailored to their development teams.
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