How Deployment Automation Speeds Up Your Agile Development

Broadcast Date : On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Andrew Phillips, Vice President, Product Development, XebiaLabs
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads

Development iterations in the Agile philosophy can be as short as one or two weeks, leading to a constant stream of new software packages. As a consequence, in Agile there will be many small software deliveries rather than one big one as was the case in the traditional waterfall approach.

This iterative strategy leads to a nearly continuous stream of software packages that Operations then has to deploy to the production environments. So as soon as Development starts to embrace change by using Agile methods in their software engineering process, the Operations department needs to change their way of working as well.

What does this mean for the way Development and Operations cooperate? Productivity gains for Development of 400%-500% when using Agile are not uncommon. This means Operations needs to become much more productive as well. If Development delivers 4 to 5 times more software packages per unit of time, Operations consequently has to deploy 4 to 5 times more packages as well. Still, the entire change process has to remain intact, also for smaller updates, putting restrictions on how fast Operations can scale up.

How do you handle this?

• Can your Operations and Development teams continue to cooperate as they used to do before they adopted Agile methodologies?
• Are there specific Agile methodologies for the Operations teams as well?
• Can ‘self-service deployments’ be used as a way for Agile developers to deploy new updates themselves directly?
• Can IT organizations continue to safely and reliably deploy their software components while working ‘Agile’?

In this webcast, we want to touch upon specific issues IT organizations may face when deploying applications in an Agile environment.

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About the Presenters:

Andrew Phillips, Vice President, Product Development,
XebiaLabs

An early believer in the ability of Java to deliver "enterprise-grade" software, Andrew Phillips quickly focused on the development of high-throughput, resilient and scalable J2EE applications. Specializing in concurrency and high performance development, Andrew gained substantial experience of the intricacies, complexity and challenges of enterprise application environments while working for a succession of multinationals. Continuously focused on effectively integrating promising new developments in the Java space into corporate software development, Andrew joined XebiaLabs in March 2009, where he is a member of the development team of their deployment automation product Deployit. Amongst others, he also contributes to Multiverse, an open-source Java STM implementation, and jclouds, a leading Java cloud library.

About the Sponsor:

XebiaLabs is the leading provider of Deployment Automation solutions. With its flagship product Deployit, XebiaLabs automates Java EE deployments in an enterprise environment. Deployit allows organizations to manage their middleware environments by predictably executing and automating their Java application deployments.

XebiaLabs was founded in 2008, and currently serves various customers around the world. 
Headquartered in the Netherlands, XebiaLabs is an international company with development and sales offices in the USA, France, Germany and India. In other countries, XebiaLabs works through a network of local representatives.

For more information, please visit www.xebialabs.com or contact one of our offices.