Webinars
ITIL Release Management and Automation
ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, provides a set of guidelines for Release Management, but putting them together into a functional system can be a daunting task. With the increase frequency, complexity and cost-of-failure for releases, can ITIL help create an efficient and controlled release process? Read more.
Using uDeploy with Hudson / Jenkins
Hudson and Jenkins, together, are the most common team-level continuous integration tools available today. But how do we link these development focused tools into the formal releases managed by operations and release management? Watch this free webinar, and learn how uDeploy integrates seemlessly with these popular tools.
Scaling Continuous Integration to Teams with Parallel Development
Continuous integration is simple with a single development team. But when software projects grow to multiple teams and dependencies, continuous integration loses effectiveness due to parallel projects, varying release schedules, and differing cadences between teams. Join us, and learn how to overcome these CI obstacles.
Continuous Delivery Maturity Model
How mature are your build, deploy, test, release practices? Where can you get the most improvement based on your specific problems and needs? How are other organizations solving these same problems? Join this free webinar for some answers.
Getting Started with DevOps
Today, there seems to be more excitement about DevOps than practical advice for getting started. How do we improve Dev / Ops communication and work together better? This webinar looks at what DevOps is, and how to take easy steps towards a DevOps transformation.
Rising Above the Noise: CI, Continuous Delivery, DevOps and What They Mean to You
There's a lot of chatter going on regarding the DevOps movement: What is it? How does it work? How do I implement it? And, with the myriad of articles and blog posts circulating, it's not surprising that there is a level of confusion surrounding the industry's newest trend. Read more.
Mastering Complex Application Deployment
Deploying complex applications is hard. What tiers and components are going out this time? What are the steps? Who needs to be involved? In this webcast we look at strategies for making these complex deployments easier, faster, and more reliable. Read more.
Enterprise DevOps: Scaling Build, Deploy, Test, Release
Where does automation meet change management, approvals and process? How do we integrate our build systems to our deployment systems? Should development even deploy the same way as the operations team? There are plenty of rewards for companies who can answer these questions. Read more.
Build & Deployment Automation for the Lean Economy
Lean Software Development is a good match for these lean economic times. Despite the economy the pace of demands has not slowed. The move to global, follow the sun, 24-hr development means more teams to service and less downtime. And in this economy adding headcount is likely not an option, instead you're told to get Lean and Mean. But how do you get to Lean and Mean without being stretched too thin? Read more.
Death to Manual Deployments!
Are your software projects stumbling over the deployment hurdle? If so, you are not alone. Many enterprise software projects struggle achieving consistent deployment across their environments — from Test to UAT to Staging to Production. The cost of this struggle is lost time, late breaking defects, and uncertainty. Read more.
Managing Release Risks with Metrics
Development organizations are often schizophrenic. Each new release comes with the fear of regressions, production delays, and expensive production downtime. Simply measuring test coverage and code complexity can change that cycle: the right metrics can help identify the riskiest code while reducing the fatal buildup of technical debt. Read more.
Enabling Self-Service Builds in the Enterprise
Despite the advantages of a centralized development infrastructure, project teams often fight for a decentralized approach, arguing that relying on the centralized team will slow them down and cost them their ability to adjust, their agility. To respond to these arguments infrastructure teams are replacing the traditional rule-based approach with a user-centric self-service model that offers the best of both worlds. Read more.
From Continuous Integration to DevOps: Co-Evolution of Agile and Automation
Gartner now predicts that by 2012 Agile Development methodologies will be used by 80 percent of all software development projects. This move into the mainstream has changed both the attitudes and practices of Agile. Continuous Integration has evolved to include the new stakeholders in Agile organizations: QA, Project Managers, Release Engineers, and even Operations. Read more.
Continuous Integration Maturity: Beyond Build
How mature are your Continuous Integration and automation practices? Where can you get the most improvement based on your specific problems and needs? How are other organizations solving these same problems? Join this free webinar for some answers. Read more.
Implementing Effective Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration (CI) can accelerate the entire release lifecycle by tying together development, QA, operations and release management. Unfortunately missing elements, organizational silos, or cultural immaturity often torpedo CI adoption efforts. Read more.
Implementing Build-Deploy-Test-Release Automation in the Enterprise
Where does automation meet change management, approvals and process? How do we integrate our build systems to our deployment systems? In this lean economy there are plenty of rewards for companies who can answer these questions. Read more.
Turn On Your Flashlight: Implementing Automation Removes the Shadows
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. Read more.
Extending and Customizing AnthillPro through Plugins
Does your company have a custom build and release process? Shouldn't your build and release tool reflect your custom process or toolset? Learn how Plugins can be used to expand existing integrations, standardize project configuration and solve unique automation challenges. Read more.
The Role of Binary Repositories in Software Configuration Management
How confident are you with the content of what you are about to release? Do you know every change since the last release? Can you reproduce the release at will? Many of the teams we meet struggle with these fundamental issues of Software Configuration Management. Read more.
Delivering Highly Reliable Systems On Time
Developers of highly reliable systems are in a seeming Catch-22: Traditional development methods result in higher costs and longer schedules. Meanwhile, market pressures demand shorter development cycles and leaner development methods. Is it possible to satisfy both the time-to-market and reliability demands? Read more.
The Evolution of Continuous Integration
Agile Software Development practices continue to gain ground. Gartner now predicts that by 2012 Agile methodologies will be used by 80 percent of all software development projects. This move into the mainstream has changed both the attitudes and practices of Agile. Read more.
Static Analysis and Continuous Integration
For modern software development organizations faced with time-to-market pressures and increasing code complexity, automating key steps in the development lifecycle — including defect detection, builds and deployments — offers important productivity benefits. Read more.
