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Deployment Automation: The End of Plug-n-Pray

Speaking to a customer recently, I was told: "Honestly, our favorite thing about moving to AnthillPro is that we've moved beyond 'Plug-n-Pray' deployments. You know, many of our deployments were so scary we'd have a bunch of people in the office ...
AnthillPro is a Maven Repository!

AnthillPro's integrated build artifact repository is one of our favorite things about the tool. After all, if you're going to support moving a build through it's lifecycle towards production with deployments and tests, it's helpful to manage the files ...
Build and Deployment Pipelines

Michael Sayko, a software configuration management consultant based in Austin, Texas, wrote a great article for CM Crossroads on the advantages of a build pipeline approach to build and deployment automation. You should check it out. I'm a big fan of the ...
Q&A from Enterprise Build-Deploy-Test-Release Webinar

Last week Jeffery and presented BDTR Automation in the Enterprise where we discussed the drivers for expanding automation from the team level to the enterprise level, as well as the requisite technical and social components to the design and rollout of ...
Questions an Enterprise CI System Should Answer

In our webinar on Build-Deploy-Test-Re...

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Re: Q&A from Enterprise Build-Deploy-Test-Release Webinar
Many thanks Eric. This is indeed good food for thought.
Re: DevOps: The Rise of QA?
Oliver, While I tend to agree with you in principal, when I visit customers and ask them what test environments they have, they usually say something like, "Well, we have dev test, QA, UAT...." What happens in the QA environment? "Well, ...
Enterprise CI Cultural Maturity
Great post and ideas! I’m going to share this with the rest of my team as we work more with enterprise-level clients. Thanks and Regards/- a href="http://en...

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Scrum and the Build Server Part 1: The team

Increasingly, when we visit enterprise customers, we find organizations that are using or adopting Scrum. In conversations amongst our consultants, we’ve observed a natural affinity between the build server and the Scrum process. While the most critical piece of technology for the Scrum team is often an agile project management system, build and test automation can be a key to the success of a Scrum team by improving communication, speeding testing, and identifying problems early.