Online Webinar – Presented by: Agile Journal
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

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.

For build and release teams, the demands come from all directions. The shorter cycle times of Agile means more builds, more deployments and more releases. The adoption of SOA means more complexity and more elements to juggle. The move to global round-the-clock, 24-hr development means more teams to service and less downtime.

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 stretching too thin?

This need to keep costs fixed while adding capacity makes improving efficiency key. Instead of attempting a whole scale change to how you develop software, the focus is on reducing waste, which allows you to deliver more in the same time and for the same cost. Build and deployment automation offer fertile ground for dramatic productivity gains that will improve the efficiency of the entire team.

Learn how to develop and implement your own program to improve efficiency:

• 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

Presenter: Eric Minick (LinkedIn profile) is a technical evangelist and consultant at UrbanCode. He has nine years of automation experience throughout the application lifecycle as a developer, test automation engineer, and production support engineer. Keep up with Eric’s latest insights on the UrbanCode blog.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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