Mission Critical Agility

Time: 8:30 AM ET | 7:30 AM CT | 5:30 AM PT
Duration: One hour and a half

Speakers:
Jeff Norris, NASA

  
 

Whether it is controlling interplanetary spacecraft, managing medical records, or "merely" staying in business, it seems that more of us are facing the pressure of building and managing mission-critical systems and teams. Although it's tempting to think that reliability is all that matters, we're also forced to adapt to constantly advancing technologies, shifting priorities, and relentless competitive pressures. What can we learn about agility from great inventors like Alexander Graham Bell and the pioneers at NASA who risked everything to change the world? Is it wise to embrace innovation and take risks when so much is at stake? Can you afford to be agile when failure is not an option, or can you afford not to? Jeff Norris explores key principles of agility from a fresh and entertaining perspective by drawing on inspiring stories of people who demonstrated agile work practices long before anyone had heard of a ScrumMaster. Come take a break from the rulebooks and taxonomies of the modern agile zoo and reflect on core traits that we all should embrace as we seek better ways of working.

What's Surgery Got to do with Improving Software Practices?

Time: 12:45 PM ET | 11:45 AM CT | 9:45 AM PT
Duration: One hour and a fifteen minutes

Speakers:
Edward Kit, Software Development Technologies


 

Surgeons and software professionals—now those are two occupations you probably haven’t seen in the same sentence until now. It is fascinating to see what real life lessons we can learn from successful process improvement programs adopted by another group of professionals: medical surgeons. Many practices of early surgeons—trial and error, lack of standards, failure to measure and share outcomes, and more—bear a striking resemblance to software professionals and practices today. Ed Kit looks back at the important lessons learned from more than 150 years of key improvements that surgeons adopted and how these lessons relate to our young industry. Offering a practical approach that you can take back to your team and organization, Ed describes how to institute process and practice improvements that will become—quite simply—the way you work. Based on his more than twenty years of helping transform testing and development teams around the world, Ed shares what it really takes to sustain effective adoption of changes that will improve software delivery capability.

Orchestrating Agility: Four Steps to Make a Truly Agile Enterprise

Broadcast Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Speakers:
Ash Owen, Director of ALM Strategy at Serena Software


 

What are the 4 key things Fortune 500 companies are doing to make their entire business truly agile? In this highly engaging presentation, ALM veteran Ash Owen will discuss real-world examples of how global enterprises are applying the principles of the Agile Manifesto beyond just software development to orchestrate their entire application delivery lifecycle. By focusing on the end-to-end ALM process – from request to release – companies have been able to overcome regulatory constraints and traditional roadblocks to become truly agile. Orchestrating agility has helped companies realize dramatic results, including 40% faster development, 50% lower costs, and 15X more releases. Mr. Owen will explain the 4 steps you need to follow to orchestrate agility across your ALM lifecycle and show how you can automate the tools and processes your organization already has in place.

Is Your Team Following the Wrong Branching and Merging Pattern?

Time: 4:00 PM ET | 3:00 PM CT | 1:00 PM PT
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Chris Lucca, Technical Evangelist, AccuRev


 

At the heart of parallel development across locations or projects is the development team’s ability to branch and merge code efficiently. The team can choose from several different branching patterns, based on elements such as feature or release. Often determined at the start of the project, the chosen branching pattern can have either have a positive or negative impact – by allowing for more development resources or constraining developers with time-consuming merge activities.

In this webinar, AccuRev’s development expert Chris Lucca will review:

- Branching pattern options, including the pros and cons of each

- Factors that can influence how a team chooses the most efficient branching pattern

- Which tools a team needs to have in place in order to branch and merge efficiently

Is DevOps Practical For Real World Enterprises?

Time: 2:30 PM ET | 1:30 PM CT | 11:30 AM PT
Duration: Forty five minutes

Speakers:
Eric Minick, Lead Consultant, UrbanCode, Inc.


 

DevOps promises tighter collaboration and consistency across the application lifecycle - from analysts, to developers to sys-admins and operations. Many wonder if it is this practical in the Enterprise where organizational hierarchies are well established and separation of duties is needed for compliance.

The truth is that while organizational divides are slow to change, real companies are delivering faster and better by fostering cooperation between development and operations while enforcing a consistent release process through environments.

Join UrbanCode's Eric Minick for a 1-hour discussion where he examines the role and limits of bridging the Dev / Ops gap in mission critical, and regulated environments. Covered topics include:

• What is this DevOps thing?
• Do sys-admins have a legitimate role in application development?
• Where can automation support the build-deploy-test-release process?
• Where does automation meet change management, approvals and process?
• Establishing an end-to-end audit trail
• Strategies for overcoming organizational structure

5 Things your Development Teams Should be Doing Now

Time: 11:30 AM ET | 10:30 AM CT | 8:30 AM PT
Duration: Forty five minutes

Speakers:
Laurence Sweeney, Vice President, Enterprise Transformation, CollabNet


 

In this ever-changing world of software development it's extremely important to keep up with technologies, methodologies and trends. This webinar will cover five tested and proven software development practices that your team should be utilizing right now to accelerate software delivery. We will show you how to quickly get your team’s started while explaining the benefits of these 5 essential software development practices. By utilizing all five of these practices, your organization will see dramatic increases in both efficiency and productivity while reducing overall IT spend.

In addition to learning how to get your team started, you will learn:

• The benefits of an Agile Development team
• Why development organizations are moving to the cloud
•  How ALM increases efficiency and developer productivity
• Tips to facilitate the social aspects of development cycles
• 10 reasons to practice Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery