Making Software Delivery Lean with Build Forge
Hands-on Test Drive
- Location:
- Your desk and Island's virtual classroom
- Date:
- Wednesday, March 12, 2008
- Time:
- 8:30 a.m. - 12 noon
IBM Rational Build Forge provides an enforceable automation wrapper around existing processes/tools. Build Forge streamlines software delivery efforts across the Dev, QA, Release, and Deployment lifecycle. Customers using Build Forge reduce softwware costs, increase quality, speed time to market, and automate reporting to assist compliance matters. Average Build Forge customers experience an ROI of less than 6 months.
Hiring additional labor to address project backlog, process improvements, and innovation is one way. Leveraging Build Forge to reduce "software waste" and rework is another option. Build Forge provides full visibility and ensures that your SDLC process are consistenly repeated each build/release. Thus, applications of higher quality transition to operations, potentially reducing time spent troubleshooting production outages.
Learn how Build Forge:
- Automates build, release, test, deployment, and administrative tasks
- Facilitates parallel processes
- Provides performance reporting
Who should attend:
- Architects and senior developers
- Configuration and build engineers
- Tool and system administrators
- Test and deployment teams
Agenda:
- 8:30 Presentation: Build Forge Technical Overview
- 9:45 Break
- 10:00 Build Forge Test Drive
- Noon Lunch
About the Speaker:
Jim Herron
Jim Herron is president of Island Training Solutions, a firm specializing in hands-on training for IBM Rational configuration management tools. An aging veteran of the software development industry, Mr. Herron was part of the initial ClearCase development team at Atria Software. In 1997, he left Rational (formerly Atria) to join startup Lexington Software Associates, where he provided high-level planning and assessment for ClearCase implementation teams. Since co-founding Island Training in 1999, Mr. Herron has overseen the development of over fifty Rational tool courses and developed specialized curricula for highly customized environments in the US and Europe. He is a frequent presenter of hands-on tool workshops at Rational User Groups throughout the US.
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