Agile Build and Release Management Best Practices

Broadcast Date: January 20th, Tuesday, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Bob Aiello, Editor-In-Chief CM Crossroads
Anders Wallgren, CTO Electric Cloud
Paul Julius, Founder, Willowbark Consulting
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

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This webcast will feature a lively, interactive panel discussion of the trials and tribulations and risks and rewards of agile techniques and tools in the software build-test-deploy process.  Topics will include:

• When is Continuous Integration not a good idea?
• Open source versus commercial tools - when, why and how?
• What does the future hold for Continuous Integration?
• When is it time to move away from a homegrown build and test system and how do you get from here to there?
• To centralize or not to centralize – supporting multiple sites and teams

The discussion will be lead by Bob Aiello, editor of CM Crossroads and process improvement guru; Paul Julius, co-author of Cruise Control and founder of Willowbark consulting; and Anders Wallgren, Chief Technical Officer of Electric Cloud.

Bob Aiello,
Editor-In-Chief
CM Crossroads

Bob is the Editor-in-Chief for CM Crossroads and a Software Engineer specializing in Software Process Improvement including Software Configuration and Release Management. Mr. Aiello has over 25 years experience as a technical manager in several top NYC Financial Services firms where he had had company-wide responsibility for CM, often providing hands-on technical support for enterprise Source Code Management tools, SOX/Cobit compliance, build engineering, continuous integration and automated application deployment. Bob is the Vice Chair of the IEEE 828 Standards working group (CM Planning) and was recently elected to the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) Management Board. He is a long standing member of the Steering Committee of the NYC Software Process Improvement Network (CitySPIN), where he serves as the chair of the CM SIG. Mr. Aiello holds a Masters in Industrial Psychology from NYU and a B.S. in Computer Science and Math from Hofstra University. You may contact Mr. Aiello at raiello@acm.org or link with him at http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobaiello

Anders Wallgren,
CTO,
Electric Cloud

Anders Wallgren is Chief Technical Officer of Electric Cloud. Anders brings with him over 15 years of in-depth experience designing and building commercial software. Prior to joining Electric Cloud, Anders held executive positions at Aceva, Archistra, and Impresse. Anders also held management positions at Macromedia (MACR), Common Ground Software and Verity (VRTY), where he played critical technical leadership roles in delivering award winning technologies such as Macromedia’s Director 7 and various Shockwave products.

Anders holds a B.SC from MIT.

Paul Julius,
Founder,
Willowbark Consulting

Paul has been consulting in the software development industry for more than ten years specializing in Agile methodologies and automation. Paul currently operates his own consulting firm, Willowbark Consulting. Prior to Willowbark, Paul was Executive Vice President at Stelligent and a Senior Technologist with ThoughtWorks, Inc. He co-founded the CruiseControl continuous integration server open source project. Paul co-chairs the international series of Continuous Integration and Testing Conferences (CITCON). Paul co-founded the Open Information Foundation, a non-profit charity focused on eliminating barriers to sharing information freely and openly.

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