Broadcast Date: Monday, July 28th, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EDT -- 1700 GMT

Speakers:
Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks
Jez Humble, Product Manager for Cruise

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Release management is often the riskiest part of the software development lifecycle. In this webcast the legendary Martin Fowler and ThoughtWorks' Jez Humble discuss best practices derived from the agile and lean movements that reduce the cost of software releases. Attend this interactive webcast to learn how your business can improve the efficiency of your development, testing and release processes.

Martin Fowler
Chief Scientist
ThoughtWorks Studios

Martin Fowler is the Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks. A part of ThoughtWorks since 1999, Martin Fowler is a renowned international speaker on software architecture, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies.

Martin Fowler started working with software in the early 80's and has written five popular books on the topic of software development. He has also served on program committees for OOPSLA, Software Development, UML World, XP 2001, and TOOLS.

Jez Humble
Product Manager for Cruise
ThoughtWorks Studios

Jez is the Product Manager for Cruise, ThoughtWorks’s new Continuous Integration and Release Management software. As the founding leader of ThoughtWorks' build and deployment community, he has worked hard to capture and propagate best practices in the build, test and deployment space. His goal is to make Cruise the number one commercial continuous integration and release management server.

Jez has over eight years of professional experience in IT as a developer, system administrator, trainer and manager. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial service and insurance service organizations. Since 2004 he has worked for ThoughtWorks in London and Bangalore and currently lives in Beijing. He holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and an MMus in Ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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ThoughtWorks Studios focuses on enabling globally distributed software teams to deliver lasting business value. Our Application Lifecycle Management suite includes tools for Agile project collaboration (Mingle), automated functional testing (Twist) and accelerating software releases (Cruise).

Launched in 2007, ThoughtWorks Studios has already acquired over 70 corporate customers, including 3M, EMC and Thomson. We are a division of the pioneering Agile Consultancy, ThoughtWorks, who also created some of the world’s most popular open source development tools- including the first continuous integration server CruiseControl and the web testing framework, Selenium.

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