In this episode of The Crossroads, Patrick Egan chats with Lothar Schubert, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing for CollabNet about their latest release. CollabNet®, the leader in Agile development in the Cloud, announced the availability of CollabNet TeamForge(tm) 6.1, the latest version of the company's award-winning Agile software development platform. TeamForge 6.1 enables the adoption of Agile methods across large-scale enterprises by dramatically speeding Subversion file and code sharing across globally distributed teams, automating governance for large-scale communities, providing resources that enable social coding, and offering enterprise-grade tools. This set of breakthrough platform configuration capabilities delivers up to 70% faster time-to-market by codifying the Agile software development and organizational management practices that CollabNet's customers have implemented over the past decade.

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The Crossroads - http://www.cmcrossroads.com - Recently, ThoughtWorks Studios announced Go 2.1, the latest release of their Agile Release Management tool. In this episode of The Crossroads, Patrick Egan, Publisher of the CM Journal, talked with Jez Humble, Build and Release Principal for ThoughtWorks Studios about continuous integration trends and how Go 2.1 helps developers deal with the "last mile". The "last mile" is the step from dev complete to release. And Go 2.1 automates all the steps for an application to go into production. It makes the process completely transparent and allows teams to see what version of each application is in use in each environment, audit back to the source and perform one-click deployments of new versions of software. Also, Go detects which tests broke, which test broke them, and who was responsible, even when run across a grid. Jez tells us what's new in this version, why you'd choose Go over an open source CI tool, and chats about what's next for ThoughtWorks. See more videos like this one at http://www.cmcrossroads.com

As business requirements demand greater release frequency to stay competitive and take advantage of market opportunities, the bottleneck in many enterprises has now moved to the application deployment phase. So, with a team of former BuildForge executives, AnovaStorm recently received two million dollars in initial funding to provide a solution to this problem. In this episode of The Crossroads, Patrick Egan, Publisher of the CM Journal, talked with Derek Hutson, Chief Executive Officer of AnovaStorm about this new endeavor. AnovaStorm combines built-in application server intelligence with a flexible deployment process framework that enables enterprises to automate, standardize and track their deployment activities, thereby reducing cost, improving staff utilization, and easing compliance requirements. So, how is AnovaStorm different from other web deployment solutions? Derek says that AnovaStorm takes a more holistic approach and provides intelligent web deployment automation software that brings predictability, efficiency and auditability to your mission critical web applications.

An Agile Business Video http://www.agilejournal.com - One of the hottest topics in software development today is the focus on combining agile and ALM. Two terms that were once thought to be at odds. ALM, or Application Lifecycle Management, traditionally focused on heavy processes and waterfall development while agile methods strove to rid the developers of the chains brought on by rigid process. Todd Olson, Director of Product Marketing for Rally Software, joins Agile Journal publisher, Patrick Egan, in this episode of Agile Talk. Patrick and Todd chat about agile ALM and what's behind the market push to support this new combination. Todd believes that the deep integration and adaptability of the Rally platform gives developers a seemless adoption of new capabilities while still preserving investment in legacy systems. They go on to discuss the new features of the recent release of Rally's agile ALM tool as well as the future of this exciting integration. See more videos like this one at http://www.agilejournal.com

The Crossroads - http://www.cmcrossroads.com - In this episode of The Crossroads, Patrick Egan, Publisher of the CM Journal talked with Clyde Logue, VP of Product Marketing at StreamStep about agile development, StreamStep and DevOps. During this interview, Clyde talked about the new movement in software development called DevOps. A similar concept to agile, it focuses on a greater level of collaboration between development and operations teams. With lightweight planning of release schedules, coordination of complex deployment processes, and a high level of automation, companies can bridge the "DevOps gap" and get their code in the hands of customers faster. The StreamStep solution gets everyone involved in real-time automation, coordination and planning where they can see what's being done and how it's going using a collaborative toolset. This improves speed to resolution for problems and drives higher release success rates. All this translates directly into a high ROI and happy management. Clyde says that by bridging the DevOps gap, your organization can adapt to changes faster, all without losing control over the big picture. See more videos like this one at http://www.cmcrossroads.com

Throughout the event we will post some videos showing the behind the scene action at CMC Media Inc. See More at http://www.cmcrossroads.com/news-a-events/13796-alm-expo-live-updates or http://www.almexpo.com

People are taking a hybrid approach to everything these days from ALM to Agile and even to development conferences. This year, the Agile Development Practices West Conference in Las Vegas, was streamed real time to over 2000 online Agile Connect viewers. This hybrid show was truly an agile event! It showcased the current state of agile adoption and how software developers are combining different methodologies like Scrum, Lean, Agile and XP to deliver better software.

AgileCycle, is a fully-integrated Agile Application Lifecycle Management (Agile ALM) solution designed to improve time-to-market, product quality, and efficiency for large and small software projects. AgileCycle is available exclusively from AccuRev, Inc., and includes options for comprehensive services including Agile coaching, training, and product deployment and support. AgileCycle is ideal for Enterprise Agile, where there is a combination of Agile, iterative, and waterfall processes. AgileCycle provides management with full visibility into the software development process, including the ability to track requirements at each stage of development. With AgileCycle, software teams focus on the product, not on the tools!

Be Agile! The world of software development is constantly changing. At ESDC 2010 in San Mateo California, industry experts in all frameworks and technologies were talking about software with an Agile twist. Companies are now scaling agile across the enterprise, testing and QA are getting involved, and agile is being adopted on a much larger level. Tools, training and collaboration are required to get better software out quicker and make the most of the enterprise. So watch this video to hear what you missed or re-live the action from this year!