Eric already mentioned Bola Rotibi's guest editorial in Issue 294 of SD Times in his blog entry on the Rise of QA, but there was another aspect of her article that resonated with me. She offered a compelling one sentence summary that captures the most common reasons our customers adopt AnthillPro:

This explains why, in the long run, automation will happen: to ensure compliance to rules and regulations, raise productivity, enable a high degree of transparency, and increase the speed of delivery.

The stereotype is that Agile and Audit belong in different camps. Agilists are painted as cowboys willing to overthrow all the established rules, damn the costs. The Audit/Governance/Compliance crowd are seen as hidebound, rule-bound, dinosaurs who care more about checklists than delivering value. But build & deployment automation has provided a common ground for these people. Automation is needed to keep up with the pace of agile delivery, and also provides a better audit trail than you have from the old system of manual process.

No wonder then that people in both camps can agree: Death to Manual Deployments!

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Posted by Jeffery Fredrick on July 9, 2010 10:59:00 AM EDT#