Turn On Your Flashlight: Implementing Automation Removes the Shadows

Broadcast Date: Thurs., May 20, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
Speakers: Jeffrey Fredrick, Urbancode Technical Evangelist and Steve Boone, Urbancode Sales Engineer

The benefits of build and deployment automation are well known: faster time to market, fewer manual mistakes, improved visibility, easier audits, and many more. These are the benefits that organizations have in mind when they decide to automate; however in our experience the process of implementing brings its own benefits: It acts as a giant flashlight to reveal what is actually happening in the development organization.

What would you see if you shined a light into the corners of your development practices? Lurking in the shadows, would you find legacy processes no one really knows anything about? How about a dependency which just seems to rise from nowhere? Would you see engineers silently swapping files on thumb drives, leaving no trace behind? Or that yellowing "standards" document stacked in the corner, covered in neglect?

Join Urbancode's Jeffrey Fredrick and Steve Boone for a 1-hour discussion on removing shadowy development practices from your organization. We will cover:

• How to construct an implementation plan for build and deployment automation.
• Common problems we've found lurking in development organizations.
• Best practices for implementing traceable, reproducible processes.
• Using automation for on-going visibility into development the development processes.

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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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Greg Wunderle
(216) 367-9900
gaw@urbancode.com