Broadcast Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Paul Julius, Executive Vice President of Professional Services Stelligent Inc.
Anders Wallgren,  Chief Technical Officer Electric Cloud
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

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Many software engineering organizations are implementing continuous integration (CI) as part of a move to agile development techniques. Organizations commonly start by using an open source tool, such as Cruise Control, but quickly find that they require extensive work and significant resources to meet the needs of a larger team or across an enterprise.

This webcast explores the challenges of continuous integration in the enterprise examines practical considerations when evaluating an Enterprise CI tool.

Attendees at this webcast will learn:

• 5 Challenges in real-world Enterprise CI and how to address them
• 4 Key features of an Enterprise solution
• Why auditing, virtualization, and reporting are key considerations when choosing a tool

Broadcast Date: Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM British Summer Time / 11:00 am Central Europe Summer Time
           10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Savings Time
           11:00 AM Singapore / 1:00pm Australia

Speakers:
Matt Brayley-Berger, Senior domain specialist for Borland
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Configuration Management Journal

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“… Imagine dramatically shrinking your testing effort while, at the same time, increasing its velocity; being able to make decisions based on a real-time dashboard without having to re-invent your organization…”

Software is critical in today’s business environment and its success depends heavily on a daunting paradox: provide higher quality software, faster. To achieve this, many organizations are adopting Agile development practices. With the transformation to Agile comes organizational culture change – to some, culture shock. Specifically, how will you transform your traditional quality practices and empower testing teams to thrive in the high-velocity, collaborative, incremental development world of Agile?

Broadcast Date: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EDT -- 1700 GMT

Speakers:
John Michelsen - Founder and Chief Scientist of iTKO LISA
Zach Nies - Vice President, Products Rally Software
Patrick Egan - Publisher, Configuration Management Journal

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Best Practices in Support of Agile Distributed Development

Broadcast Date: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Time: 3 broadcast times to choose from:
10:00 AM British Summer Time / 11:00 am Central Europe Summer Time
10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Savings Time
11:00 AM Singapore / 1:00pm Australia

Speakers:
Elaine Larsh, Director of Program Management at Quest Software
Stephen Palmer,  Principle Consultant at Borland
Corné Human, Product Marketing Director for Change Management at Borland
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Configuration Management Journal

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With 80% of software development taking place in distributed environments and Agile development methodologies adoption on the rise, organizations are faced with a new twist on the Agile challenge: How to support software change and configuration management for Agile teams despite geographic boundaries?

As collaborators become increasingly distributed, the emphasis gradually shifts from group support to system support and process adherence becomes even more vital. In this converging world of seemingly diametrically opposed goals, automation and innovation in collaboration are the keys to successfully managing the ‘Agile Shift’.

As the cornerstone of software development, your SCCM solution must balance these goals. In this session we will explore the dilemma facing software development organizations as well as some of the best practices Borland customers have adopted to support them in their transformations.

Broadcast Date: Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EDT -- 1700 GMT

Speakers:
Martin Van Ryswyk, VP of Engineering at Electric Cloud
Jim Bell,  VP of Marketing at Electric Cloud
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Configuration Management Journal

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During this webcast  we will dicsuss how Software Production Automation is the perfect complement to a dynamically provisioned virtual infrastructure and how using virtual machines helps to both reduce IT costs and makes more efficient use of resources in the software development environment.

Enterprises everywhere are beginning to see the benefits of virtual machines in reducing IT infrastructure costs and eliminating “server sprawl.” But the software development tools and processes that run in those environments are largely manual, disconnected, and difficult to manage. This is particularly true in the build and test, or “software production” phases of development; though these tasks consume the majority of computing resources (build servers, test labs, etc.), they are typically script-driven, disconnected, and not automated. 

A Case Study with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Broadcast Date: Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EDT -- 1700 GMT

Speakers:
Rob Cheng, Director of Product Marketing, CollabNet, Inc.
Richard Wolverton,  Applications Architect, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Megan O'Meara, Editor, Configuration Management Journal

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While at first you might not think of state government as a hotbed of software development, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services at Commonwealth of Massachusetts builds and maintains a broad portfolio of applications, ranging from Food Stamp and Medicare management systems all integrated in a “Virtual Gateway” that manages services to thousands of citizens, health providers and government workers via a public web portal. When you consider the number of internal and external stakeholders involved with each of these applications, it quickly becomes clear that software development processes for government agencies require collaboration and stringent oversight. And given their funding constraints, cost and productivity are critical.

Join this important web seminar to hear Rich Wolverton, Applications Architect in the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), describe how his team is deploying CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise to effectively manage multiple development projects, each with its own set of specific workflows and requirements, within a single web-based platform. Discover how CollabNet’s integrated Subversion-based SCM, issue tracking, collaboration and project management platform, CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise, helped EOHHS automate key development processes while integrating with a variety of existing tools.