Making the economic case for build-test-deploy automation and acceleration

Broadcast Date: Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Martin Van Ryswyk, Vice President, Engineering, Electric Cloud
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

In the current economic climate, software development executives are being asked to reduce costs across the board.  Headcounts are frozen, if not slashed, and budgets are tight.  The savvy development (or SCM or Release) Manager should know that a potentially untapped opportunity for cost savings and productivity improvement lies in the back end of software development.  The build and test process is ripe for improvement.  This webinar will explore some real world examples of significant cost savings by automating and accelerating this process. 

Opportunities to boost productivity and save money include:

• Stop wasting time maintaining build scripts and test harnesses.
• Minimize the idle time developers spend waiting for build or test procedures to execute (or for broken builds to be fixed!).
• Stop wasting hours debugging broken builds.
• “Fail faster,” find and correct defects earliers
• Squeeze more value from hardware resources
• Reduce redundant work by providing a build and test infrastructure as a centralized service.

About the Presenters:

Martin Van Ryswyk, Vice President, Engineering
Electric Cloud

Martin Van Ryswyk is the VP of Engineering of Electric Cloud. Prior to joining Electric Cloud, Martin was a Senior Director at EMC Corporation where he managed a number of software development teams. Prior to EMC he was the VP of Engineering at Luminate (acquired by EMC 2001), a privately held software company which pioneered the delivery of systems management software as service. He also held management and technical roles at Tidal Software. Martin brings 18 years of experience in building commercial enterprise software to Electric Cloud. Martin holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.

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About the Sponsor:

Electric Cloud is the leading provider of solutions that automate, accelerate and analyze software build-test-deploy processes to optimize both physical and virtual IT environments. The company's award-winning products help development organizations to speed time to market, boost developer productivity, and improve software quality.

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