Broadcast Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Time: 11:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM CT | 2:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Eric Minick, Lead Consultant, Urbancode, Inc.
Francesca Matteu, Moderator, Agile Journal

Are you ready to get Lean and Mean? In good economic times, teams attempt bold experiments that promise to take them to new heights of productivity. In lean times like these, few have the appetite for such speculative ventures. Any new investment needs to address immediate pain and show immediate payback. But the pace of demands haven’t slowed, and the ever increasing need to do more continues. This need to keep costs fixed while adding capacity makes improving efficiency key. Join us in this webinar to learn how to develop and implement your own program for improving efficiency through build and deployment automation:

• Learn about the dramatic gains other organizations have achieved through build and deployment automation
• Discover investigation techniques for spotlighting inefficiency in the build and release cycle
• Hear about common build and deployment productivity blockers and the best practices for removing them

Broadcast Date: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Time: 11:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM CT | 2:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Eric Minick, Lead Consultant, Urbancode, Inc.
Francesca Matteu, Moderator, Agile Journal

Many development, test, and project managers see the deployment process as a cruel puzzle and a risky business. Not only do components often go to different servers, interdependencies between components and tiers demand that everything aligns perfectly. A single mistake often results in delayed releases—or worse, system failures.

Complex application deployments place strain across the organization. The resulting high anxiety around releases, finger pointing across the organization, and internal pressure for fewer releases frustrate development and operations even as the business is demanding more. The good news is that your organization can get deployment challenges under control.

Eric Minick explains in this web seminar:

• What process automation can and cannot do to help deployments
• How to consistently promote complex applications through environments
• Strategies to ensure the whole system is deployed with the right versions
• When and when not to trust test results

You’ll also learn how to create more consistent and repeatable deployments through new tools and deployment strategies based on automation and scripting.

Broadcast Date : Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Time: 09:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM CT / 12:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Darryl Bowler, Senior Systems Architect, Services, CollabNet
Francesca Matteu, Moderator, Agile Journal

Early and continuous delivery of valuable software is the number one principle behind the Agile Manifesto. That’s why agile practices demand looking beyond code, to build and test. Continuous integration (CI) and test-driven development are accepted as critical elements to accelerate the software delivery process. However, exclusive focus on automating the build and test process is not enough. A key benefit of CI is the ability to effectively close the loop between development, build and test, and back, through continuous information flow. By gaining timely visibility into build and test results, development teams can be more proactive in dealing with defects, and project teams gain vital information into each build, including which requirements have been addressed. This increases team productivity and accelerates faster delivery of high-quality software.

Attend this session to:
    •    Understand the fundamentals of closed-loop CI
    •    Hear practical examples and case studies from implementations of a CI solution
    •    Learn how to effectively integrate tools like Hudson or Jenkins with ALM solutions

Broadcast Date: Thursday July 14, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads
Leslie Sachs, COO, CM Best Practices Consulting and coauthor of "Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World"
Francesca Matteu, Moderator

Implementing Application Release Automation to support IT Governance and Compliance can be very challenging and, in some instances even impossible, without robust tools and processes. There is a lot more to helping your IT organization establish ITSM and ITIL than just setting up a change management database. This Webinar will discuss release and deployment best practices that can help your IT organization handle the demands of rapid application deployment across all of the environments required by the application lifecycle (e.g. Dev, QA, Staging, Production). You will also learn how to assess and manage deployment-related risks that many managers find especially challenging to handle. Implementing a robust deployment framework may be the most important step that your organization will take to improve productivity and quality. This Webinar will get you started on the road to successful automated application release and deployment best practices!

Broadcast Date : Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Time: 11:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Sivakumar Kalyanaraman, IT Architect, Cognizant

QA teams today are required to validate beyond functional and nonfunctional aspects of systems developed and to engineer them to deliver a user experience that exceeds expectations. These systems under test need to handle exceptional situations to prove that they can address business demands. One way to achieve this is to reengineer performance disruptions so that systems can achieve higher levels of scalability and performance. This web seminar will help you experience "newer realities" of quality and explore avenues to enable business assurance through engineering. You'll learn proven ways to redefine aspects of system performance including but not limited to capacity, availability, security, scalability, performance, and reliability; and to successfully adopt virtualization techniques and cloud models.

Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist/Agile, IBM Rational
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads

Since it’s advent in 2001, Agile practices have transformed the way software is built and delivered.  However, there are those who still believe Agile doesn’t work for large teams, Agile only works in co-located environments, or that Agile is undisciplined.  In reality, Agile practices are being used in virtually every industry and are being used to effectively deliver every type of software; Agile is truly “everyware!”  With IBM agility@scale^TM, IBM has led the way in helping organizations to adopt, scale and succeed with Agile whether they are globally distributed, require strict governance, or are building technically- complex software. 

Join Scott Ambler, Rational’s Chief Methodologist for Agile and Lean, as he:

• Briefly discusses the past, present, and future of Agile
• Definitively busts some of the Agile myths that still remain
• Explains how IBM Rational not only helps organizations quickly get started with Agile practices, but also provides a roadmap, services, training and tooling that allow teams to scale their Agile practices across the application lifecycle
  
  

Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Angela Druckman, Agile Mentor and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), CollabNet
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

Is your organization exploring or implementing an Agile transformation?  If so, it is critical for you to assess where your enterprise stands in the process and to understand what short term and long term improvements must be made in order to succeed.  Working onsite with thousands of customers that represent a large cross-section of industries and organizations,  CollabNet Agile Coaches have observed patterns and key milestones in the way organizations adopt and scale  Agile.  In this webinar,  “Agile Transformation Strategy – A Blueprint for Enterprise Success”,  Angela Druckman, CST,  will outline the phases enterprises go through in their agile transformation and outline a sound strategy and  “blueprint” to help guide organizations on their path to Agility.  Learn what it takes to be successful in an Enterprise Agile Transformation and what resources are available to help accelerate your success and your organization’s return-on-investment.

Broadcast Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Damon Poole, Founder and CTO, AccuRev
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads

Continuous Integration is an increasingly popular Agile technique for discovering and fixing problems early.  Yet as larger groups start to adopt it, a problem arises.  The larger the team and the larger the product, the greater the chance that check-ins across different team members will invalidate each other.

Multi-stage continuous integration is an extension of the common practice of shielding coding changes across team members by only checking in tested changes and updating workspaces when developers are ready to absorb each other’s changes.  Each team performs a team-based integration first, and cross-integrates the team’s changes with the mainline on success.  This approach limits project-wide churn and allows scaling to large projects.

In this session, Damon Poole, Founder and CTO of AccuRev, will:

• Introduce the concept of multi-stage continuous integration
• Explain the advantages of the approach
• Guide through potential pitfalls to avoid
• Provide examples of successful implementation

Broadcast Date: On Demand
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Jeffrey Fredrick, Technical Evangelist, Urbancode, Inc.
Bob Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, CM Crossroads

Ten 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 paced by the development of Continuous Integration. Starting from a developer-centric Agile practice, Continuous Integration has evolved to include the new stakeholders in Agile organizations: QA, Project Managers, Release Engineers, and even Operations. This change change in practices involve yet more people, helping expand the footprint of agile at the same time.

In this presentation Technical Evangelist Jeffrey Fredrick will review the growth of Agile and the development of CI into the practices of Continuous Deployment and DevOps. Join us to learn:

• Process and tools should be driven by interactions and individuals
• Automation can make people more human
• Why automated Continuous Integration is the mostly widely adopted Agile practice
• How the spread of Agile led Continuous Integration to evolve in Continuous Deployment and DevOps
• A prediction on how Agile and Continuous Integration will co-evolve into the future

Broadcast Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Paul Peissner, Director of Business Development, CollabNet
Julie Byrne, Product Manager, CollabNet
Patrick Egan, Publisher, CM Crossroads

As companies struggle to gain competitive advantages in the marketplace, Software Development is fast becoming one of the most strategic areas of focus.  Business is pushing for more agile application lifecycle management (ALM) processes to release innovative ideas into the market more quickly.  They are placing pressure on Operations to roll products and changes into live environments at an unprecedented pace.  Several challenges arise:

• the volume of ideas and change requests often out-paces development efforts and resources,
• completed agile projects face many challenges in successfully rolling out as new applications,
• and the business is growing more skeptical that their software teams can produce reliable and adaptive services.

DevOps is the big picture vision that enables organizations to coordinate innovation and high quality agile development efforts to produce high value applications and services that grow the business.  Join us for this webinar as CollabNet’s Paul Peissner and Julie Byrne discuss the DevOps dilemma and describe how companies are enabling business agility with DevOps and Agile ALM.