Subversion Best Practices: Maximizing Productivity

Broadcast Date: Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Time: 10:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm CDT / 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Bob Jenkins, Director, Subversion Services, CollabNet
C. Michael Pilato, Senior Subversion Engineer, CollabNet
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

Thousands of companies have chosen Subversion®, the industry’s leading version control tool, to manage critical software assets.  Whether you are a long-time user of Subversion or just beginning to consider it, you might be wondering if there is more you can do to make an easy-to-use system like Subversion work even better in your environment.  Are there best practices and general principles that can make your enterprise more productive? How can your team get more from Subversion in their daily activities?

Speakers Bob Jenkins and Michael Pilato of CollabNet help drive the Subversion roadmap and have been helping enterprises deploy Subversion since CollabNet first conceived of the version control tool in 2000.  Today, Mike, Bob, and the rest of the CollabNet team continue to steward Subversion’s roadmap, work with organizations to identify their development process requirements, and map Subversion’s best practices to meet those requirements. CollabNet also helps long-time users of Subversion learn how to improve their existing implementations through process adjustments and optimizations for end users.

In this webinar, Bob and Mike will present ideas on how to increase your team’s productivity by using core Subversion functionality and broader application lifecycle tools.

About the Presenters:

Bob Jenkins,
Director, Subversion Services,
CollabNet

Bob Jenkins has spent more than 12 years focused on application life-cycle tools. For the past six years, Mr. Jenkins has worked for CollabNet as a sales engineer, principal collaboration consultant, senior product marketing manager, and currently as Director of Subversion Services. At CollabNet, Mr. Jenkins helps define the areas of investment by CollabNet in Subversion, the fastest growing version control tool designed for software configuration management (SCM). He also consults with enterprises that are planning to adopt Subversion on how to apply best practices to their SCM processes.

Mr. Jenkins has over 20 years of experience in software development and application customization. Prior to CollabNet, Mr. Jenkins worked for Rational Software concentrating on configuration and change management.

C. Michael Pilato,
Senior Subversion Engineer,
CollabNet

C. Michael Pilato is a core Subversion developer, co-author of Version Control with Subversion (O’Reilly Media 2008), and the primary maintainer of View VC. He works remotely from his home state of North Carolina as a senior software engineer on CollabNet’s version control team, and has been an active open source developer since early 2001. Mike is a proud husband and father who loves traveling and spending quality time with his family. He also enjoys composing and performing music, and harbors not-so-secret fantasies of rock stardom. Until that all works out, though, he is content to spend his modicum of private time doing freelance web design, graphic design, audio and video production work. Mike has a degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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About the Sponsor:

CollabNet is the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM) platforms for distributed software development teams. CollabNet TeamForge is the industry’s most open ALM platform, supporting every environment, methodology, and technology. With an integrated suite of easy-to-use tools that share a centralized repository, it is the only ALM platform that enables a culture of collaboration, substantially reducing the cost of software development. As the corporate sponsor of the open source Subversion® project, the best version control and software configuration management (SCM) solution for distributed teams, collaborative development is in our DNA. Millions of users at more than 700 organizations have transformed the way they develop software with CollabNet. www.collab.net