Broadcast Date: Tuesday September 15, 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
In good economic times teams attempt bold experiments that promise to take them to new heights of productivity. In lean times like these few have the appetite for such speculative ventures. Any new investment needs to address immediate pain and show immediate payback. But the pace of demands hasn’t slowed and the ever increasing need to do more continues. For build and release teams the demands come from all directions. The shorter cycle times of Agile means more builds, more deployments and more releases. The adoption of SOA means more complexity, more elements to juggle. The move to global round-the-clock 24-hr development means more teams to service and less downtime. And in this economy adding headcount is likely not an option, instead you’re told to get Lean and Mean. But how do you get to Lean and Mean without being stretched too thin?
This need to keep costs fixed while adding capacity makes improving efficiency key. Instead of attempting a whole scale change to how you develop software the focus is on reducing waste, allowing you to deliver more in the same time and for the same cost. Build and deployment automation offer fertile ground for dramatic productivity gains that will improve the efficiency of the entire team.
Join us in this webinar to learn how to develop and implement your own program for improving efficiency through build and deployment automation:
- Learn about the dramatic gains other organizations have achieved through build and deployment automation
- Discover investigation techniques for spotlighting inefficiency in the build and release cycle
- Hear about common build and deployment productivity blockers and the best practices for removing them
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 a 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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About the Sponsor:
Urbancode is the technical leader in build and release management solutions since 2001. AnthillPro offers the only complete Enterprise Continuous Integration platform to get your builds and deployments under control. Replace manual script-driven bottlenecks with web-based self-service automation. Provide agility & control in harmony with fast feedback and audit trails. Customers in the financial, banking, insurance, software and high-tech industries achieve end-to-end automation using .NET, Java, and/or native technologies. Urbancode's unique products integrate with SCM, issue tracking, change management, test automation and IDE tools. Founded in 1996, Urbancode is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
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