The Crossroads - Podcast series from CM Crossroads
Join the CM Crossroads Editors in lively discussions with industry thought leaders, analysts and software providers about the latest trends and news for the Configuration Management community.
Executives often neglect requirements or mistakenly assume a requirement process is in place, yet requirements have a major impact on project and ultimately business success. David Hauck and Patrick Egan discuss the reason for that disconnect. David goes on to talk about about how the typical requirements definition and management process take place and some of the challenges associated with it. Finally we wrap up discussing the implications of not having a proper requirements definition and management process in place.
Thoughtworks labs' Jez Humble joins Bob Aiello for a two part program announcing the new commercial continuous integration (CI) server called Cruise. This product sets a new pace with its supporting Agile practices including CI. It's ease of use, support and extensibility, from the makers of the very successful open source continuous integration server, promise to make this very popular Agile CM best practice even more practical for large scale Agile adoption!
In Part 1, we were introduced to Cruise and found out how it can help developers. Tune into Part 2 to find out what technologies are supported by Cruise!
Thoughtworks labs' Jez Humble joins Bob Aiello for a two part program announcing the new commercial continuous integration (CI) server called Cruise. This product sets a new pace with its supporting Agile practices including CI. It's ease of use, support and extensibility, from the makers of the very successful open source continuous integration server, promise to make this very popular Agile CM best practice even more practical for large scale Agile adoption!
In Part 1, Jez explains what a CI server is all about and how Cruise can help devleopers.
Rekha Garapati, Director of IBM India Software Labs, discusses the opening of the IBM Service
Management Center of Excellence in India which will act as the regional
hub for Tivoli service management software and strategy. The Center has
been designed to develop specialized focus and skills in high value
areas such as telecom, security, automation and asset management.
Bob Aiello interviews Mike Maciag, CEO of Electric Cloud to discuss Electric Cloud's new VM Ware Lab Manager based virtual build and test automation capabilities.
Jim Hickey Chief Marketing Officer for mValent
and Patrick Egan discuss the new mValent Integrity for Microsoft Servers. mValent has traditionally been focused on delivering application configuration management solutions for Java-based applications. The release of this new product expands the company's reach into the
Windows marketplace giving IT teams a single console to manage both Microsoft based environments as well as Linus and Unix based Java application infrastructure. You can find out more about this release on the web at
http://www.mvalent.com
During an interview at SD West 2007, CM Journal Editor in Chief Patrick Egan and Jeff Johnston, Senior Director of Sales for TechExcel discuss the release of two new components of DevSuite TechExcel's integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform. DevSpec is an integrated requirements management solution that is
specifically designed to provide visibility, traceability and
validation of your product or project requirements and KnowledgeWise which enables the easy and efficient collection and
organization of informal ideas, gathered from a wide variety of sources.
With an eye on the future Seapine Software recently launched a new version of their popular QA Wizard Pro automated testing solution. The new QA Wizard Pro 2007 version was completely re-written to support for the next generation of development tools and applications being deployed world wide by their customers.
In an interview at SD West 2007 Paula Rome Director of Product Management with Seapine , discusses the need for improved automated testing tools and processes that led to the re-design of QA Wizard Pro. The product is now in beta and you can get involved in the beta program at labs.seapine.com
