Broadcast Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
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, Founder, CM Crossroads

How mature are your Continuous Integration and automation 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 enterprise development projects — where large projects, distributed teams or strict governance requirements are not aberrations — has resulted in increased automation efforts throughout the lifecycle. Top performing teams achieve Enterprise Continuous Integration and tie their efforts together into an end-to-end solution that pays dividends by enabling them to deliver changes faster with higher quality, and with more control for less effort.

But despite these benefits the adoption of automation has been uneven. Many software teams struggle with manual, slow, high-risk deployments. Others use release processes that are efficient and safe enough to deploy to production many times a day. There are many paths to improving your development automation efforts, but where to start?

When seeking these benefits it is useful to have a guide. In this webcast 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 is based several years of first-hand experience with hundreds of teams and reports from the field. With this model you can understand the industry norms so you know where you’re keeping up and where you’re falling behind.

Join us to learn:

• Industry norms based on our experiences in the field
• Specialized practices like the build lifecycle of Scrum teams
• Identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement based on your context
• When advancing in automation maturity isn't worth the effort

About the Presenters:

Jeffrey Fredrick,
Technical Evangelist,
Urbancode, Inc.

Jeffrey Fredrick is a 17-year veteran of the software industry with a mission to change the way software is created. From his varied career Jeffrey brings the perspective of having performed and managed virtually every role in the software development lifecycle including stints as VP of Engineering and VP of Product Management. A founding member of the JBuilder development team, an early adopter of XP and Agile software development, 8 years of leading continuous integration efforts, Jeffrey has consistently been at the forefront of the industry. Jeffrey is an experienced speaker and trainer on development techniques and process, having spoken at Gartner Application Development Summits, JavaPolis, Software Development Best Practices, EclipseCon, Better Software, STeP-In Summit, and JaSST. He is currently indulging his passion for improving how software is made as an Technical Evangelist at Urbancode, as the Co-Organizer of the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON), and as the top committer for CruiseControl.

Eric Minick,
Lead Consultant,
Urbancode, Inc.

Eric Minick is a Lead Consultant at Urbancode where he helps customers get the most out of their build and release processes with AnthillPro. He has 7 years of automation experience throughout the application life-cycle in roles as a developer, test automation engineer, and support engineer. Eric has been at the forefront of continuous integration for 5+ years and has worked on all three generations of Urbancode’s Anthill.

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