Broadcast Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Jeffrey Fredrick, Technical Evangelist, Urbancode, Inc.
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads

Nine years on from the Agile Manifesto, the collection of practices and methodologies known as Agile Software Development continue to gain ground. There is no longer a question if Agile has “crossed the chasm”:  Gartner now predicts that by 2012 Agile Development methodologies will be used by 80% of all software development projects. But the Agile of 2010 is not the same as the Agile of 2001. Agile has expanded from small co-located teams to large-scale distributed development. This move into the mainstream has changed both the attitudes and practices of Agile.

Broadcast Date : On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Gwyn Fisher, CTO, Klocwork
Anders Wallgren, CTO, Electric Cloud 
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads

Moderated by Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief of CM Crossroads, this interactive panel discussion brings industry experts Anders Wallgren, CTO of Electric Cloud and Gwyn Fisher, CTO of Klocwork together for a candid discussion of the cost savings, productivity and quality benefits that can be achieved by stabilizing builds and code quality as early in the development cycle as possible. The reality of today's development environment – including geographically distributed teams, the use of Agile development practices, increasing application complexity- is straining the viability of the traditional coding, build and release process. To stay ahead of the curve, development teams are modernizing their approach to dealing with these issues, and as a result are achieving new levels of development productivity.

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Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Dr. Ahmed Sidky, Dr. Agile
Matt Klassen, Strategic Solutions Manager, MKS Inc.
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads

Taking a "purist", big bang approach to Agile is not a viable option for most development organizations, especially large enterprises. The most successful deployments of Agile are tailored to the context, strengths and limitations of the organization and are transformations over time, not overnight implementations. The challenge becomes defining a process that minimizes risk and takes an iterative approach to Agile migration, allowing acclimation to Agile principles while accounting for the constraints of Agile 'in the real world'.

Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Scott Castle, Senior Product Manager, Electric Cloud
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Journal

Agile developers know that a quick build is a necessity to maintain short development cycles.  Two basic strategies for short builds exist: build acceleration, where the same amount of work is run on more resources, getting it done faster; and build avoidance, where less actual work is done but the same end results are achieved.  Some examples of build avoidance are complex and exotic, such as the object reuse techniques of ccache and clearmake winkin; others are simple and well-known, like building incrementally.  None of these techniques gets build avoidance entirely right because each lacks knowledge about what you need.  In this webinar we’ll cover a new approach to build avoidance, called subbuilds, which has better performance across the broadest class of scenarios.  We’ll introduce the concept, describe how it works in practice, and provide you with an implementation that you can start using right now.

Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Usman Muzaffar, V.P. Product Management, Electric Cloud
Patrick Egan, Founder, CM Crossroads

As software system complexity increases, so necessarily does the production infrastructure responsible for build, test, release, deploy. What is the future of this trend? This engaging talk explores the evolution of the relationship between complex projects and their supporting systems across other industries. Using history as a guide to the future, it considers the creation of a distinct new engineering discipline -- software production engineering -- with new tools, methodologies, and people specifically targeting the unique challenges of this space.

Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
John Scumniotales, The First Scrummaster
Jeff McKenna, The First Scrum Coach
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

Adopting Agile can be challenging, a simple search of the web will lead you to many articles about those challenges. What you really need to know are the simple and effective things you can do to help you succeed with rolling out Agile. 

In this webinar, two of the original Scrum practitioners, will give you their tried and tested strategies for deploying agile successfully in complex organizations. Not only were John and Jeff there at the beginning of Scrum, since then they have amassed a career's worth of experience implementing agile in progressively more challenging organizations. Get practical advice from the front line of Scrum and Agile enterprise practitioners on what works and what doesn't for Agile in the Enterprise.