The Evolution of Continuous Integration & Agile Development

Original Broadcast Date: Web., Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. EST
Speaker: Jeffrey Fredrick, Urbancode Technical Evangelist

Nine years on from the Agile Manifesto, the collection of practices and methodologies known as Agile Software Development continue to gain ground. There is no longer a question if Agile has "crossed the chasm": Gartner now predicts that by 2012 Agile Development methodologies will be used by 80 percent of all software development projects. But the Agile of 2010 is not the same as the Agile of 2001. Agile has expanded from small co-located teams to large-scale distributed development. This move into the mainstream has changed both the attitudes and practices of Agile.

As quickly as Agile has grown, it has been outpaced by the development of Continuous Integration. Starting from a developer-centric Agile practice, Continuous Integration has expanded to include new stakeholders: QA, Project Managers, Release Engineers, and even Operations. Building on this success, the principles of Continuous Integrations are now being applied to projects of all types — Agile and non-Agile alike.

In this webinar, we will look at the origins and development of Continuous Integration, at the parallel paths traveled by Agile and Continuous Integration, and the twin roads ahead for Continuous Integration and Agile. Join us to learn:

• the elements of automated Continuous Integration that have made it the mostly widely adopted Agile practice;
• how Continuous Integration can benefit Agile and non-Agile teams alike; and
• how we see Agile and Continuous Integration evolving together into the future.

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About Urbancode and AnthillPro

Urbancode is the technical leader in build and release management solutions since 2001. AnthillPro offers the only complete enterprise continuous integration platform with Build and Dependency Management, Deployment Automation, Test Orchestration, and Release Management. Customers in the financial, banking, insurance, software and high-tech industries achieve end-to-end automation using .NET, Java, and/or native technologies. Urbancode's unique products integrate with SCM, issue tracking, change management, test automation and IDE tools. Founded in 1996, Urbancode is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

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