5 Reasons Why Agile Won't Scale Without Automation

We all know that Agile enables software organizations to continuously deliver working software faster to customers (internal or external). This helps software teams to not only deliver products faster but also in tune with the changing market needs. In practice however, organizations still struggle to get the full benefits of Agile methodology because they have not fully automated their practices (development, build, test, release).

Join us to hear Christopher Rommel, VP of M2M and Embedded Technology at VDC, address the fundamental issues and recommendations you should consider as you adopt Agile:
1. Drivers for adopting Agile
2. Critical organizational, process and tooling issues to consider and pitfalls to avoid
3. Recommendations on how to do this right by automating your processes

If increasing time to market with high quality products is important to your engineering organization, like it is at Brocade, don’t miss this informative session.

Brocade’s code has more than doubled in size as a normal part of business to deliver top-notch solutions. Their solutions are used in 90% of Global 1,000 data centers as well as in enterprise LANs and the largest service provider networks.

In just 3 days, Brocade’s global engineering organization:
• Reduced its software build times by more than 75% even as their code base grew to more than double its size
• Virtually eliminated build errors enabling engineers to focus more on innovation rather than fixing broken builds
• Adopted this successful approach without forcing engineers to learn to use new tools or modify their existing processes

Attend/watch this webinar to learn how Brocade pulled off this technical feat.

Do you use Android as your real-time operating system for your devices? Attend this technical presentation to learn how MIPS, a leader and innovator in the RISC processors, accelerated their Android testing processes to speed up time to market without sacrificing quality. Dinu Radian, Senior Software Program Manager at MIPS, will present real-life examples of how testing is efficiently executed across a number of devices in parallel to keep up with their break-neck release schedules. MIPS is a customer of Electric Cloud, the sponsor of this webinar.

Today's enterprises are adopting methodologies like DevOps and Continuous Delivery to rapidly deliver applications to customers. Continuously building, testing and releasing applications improves the quality of the applications by providing fast user feedback to development teams; rapid release cycles also ensure tighter collaboration between Dev and Ops teams.

Join this webinar to learn how the integrated Opscode Chef and Electric Cloud solution automates the end-to-end application delivery process to:
• Provision and configure environments in a consistent manner
• Model and deploy multi-tier applications in a fail-safe way
• Manage the overall release process from Dev to Production

Only through an integrated automation of infrastructure, application and release process, can IT organizations deliver applications quickly, with minimal errors and complete transparency.

With newer Android operating systems being released at a rapid pace, the delivery of devices is still gated by how quickly device makers can build, test and release their software for each Android release. For business, this means a number of negative impacts - slow time to market, poor quality of products, low productivity of development teams and a lack of visibility across the entire delivery process. With an average Android development cycle of about four months, time to market determines the winner in this marketplace.

Join this webinar to hear the integrated Android Solution from Electric Cloud and Wind River that accelerates your time to market by simplifying and automating the entire product development lifecycle from design through testing to compliance validation.

To improve quality and reduce time-to-market, Development Testing techniques such as static code analysis and unit testing are critical for most serious software R&D organizations. Finding and fixing such code while maintaining agility and speed from the earliest phases of the software development lifecycle has been proven to be a very effective (and cost-efficient) way to prevent defects from being shipped in the final product. Learn what techniques are helpful, how they can be easily applied, and how to avoid the most common pitfalls. Join this webinar to hear from thought leaders at Electric Cloud and Parasoft on how your organization can get the most out of development testing.

The ultimate goal of application deployment is getting applications into production to provide customer value. During this important deployment, the last thing we want is deployment failure, which can mean missed deadlines, costly high-pressure troubleshooting, and customer dissatisfaction.

A deployment automation solution should do more than just automate the steps. It should pro-actively reduce the likelihood and impact of inevitable production deployment failures.

Attend this webinar to learn how ElectricDeploy can help you:
-Perform run-time debugging & troubleshooting for hardening the deployment processes.
-Set acceptable success and failure deployment thresholds.
-Define recovery policies on failure, reducing the time to remediate failures.

FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, has millions of users who use FamilySearch services to learn about their family history.

Attend this webinar to learn how FamilySearch:

- Reduced its software “development-to-delivery” time from 1-3 months to 10 minutes.
- Automated its entire development cycle –from code commit to delivering software for over 30 applications.

FamilySearch dramatically improved the user experience for its customers by making continuous delivery a reality and reducing the time to market for delivering its software products.

Businesses are trying to deliver web applications to their customers faster by increased adoption of Agile practices. However, applications are inherently complex and deploying them is even more complex. A single application release leads to several deployments across Development, QA, Staging and Production. In the last mile, production deployments remain the key hurdle due to the disconnect between the Dev and Ops teams.

Attend this webinar to join the discussion between guest speaker, principal analyst Glenn O'Donnell, from Forrester Research, Inc. and Ashish Kuthiala from Electric Cloud as they present:
•Current challenges in deploying applications.
•Sharing deployment best-practices between Dev and Ops.
•Improving deployment consistency and repeatability.
•Refining development processes to reduce errors.
•Solving deployment challenges with ElectricDeploy, a new Electric Cloud solution.

To accelerate , enterprise-grade software delivery, Dev and IT teams need a fully integrated solution that delivers just-in-time infrastructure in support of Agile dev-test-deploy needs. Join thought leaders from VMware and Electric Cloud to learn about 3 essentials for delivering on the promise of DevOps and Agile.

Zero tolerance for errors – this is the new reality for software quality. To protect your brand, your software must work flawlessly. Join Theresa Lanowitz, founder of analyst firm voke, Inc. and Jim McMahon of Electric Cloud as they discuss innovation and automation in the testing market, driven by:

1.Lifecycle virtualization
2.Development testing
3.Infrastructure test optimization
4.Integration of testing products

Theresa will present findings from voke’s 2012 research on testing platforms. Jim will present Electric Cloud’s innovative solutions that build quality in every phase of the development lifecycle.

In the business world, time is money. Because of this, the speed of your software development and delivery is extremely important. To enable speed within your organization, Agile and Lean are currently the best practice frameworks to adopt. However Agile Project Management alone won’t cut it if you don’t excel at your Agile Engineering Practices, providing rapid continuous feedback loops and real-time visibility into important business metrics and values.

Join this webinar to learn first-hand from featured guest, the independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc., and the market-leading Agile-enabler, Electric Cloud, on how you can enable the speed you need to develop and deliver software in an Agile Business Environment.

European webinar - 9 AM GMT (10 AM UK time zone)
The advantages of running Enterprise Continuous Integration (CI) processes are well documented - improved time-to-market and quality are just the top of the list. Implementing CI across the enterprise appears to require more build infrastructure than many IT organizations can sustain and a large build cloud puts a large performance load on the SCM system. Both Electric Cloud and Perforce provide unique technology to implement Enterprise CI while addressing critical challenges through key advantages such as preflight build support and source repository replication.

Join this webinar to learn how Perforce's investment in replication technology will help sustain an enterprise build cloud with little impact on the rest of the system. Perforce's 2012.1 release features a new replication behavior targeted at build cloud support, another step forward in Perforce's federated architecture. You’ll also learn how ElectricCommander 4.1 and the latest release of the ElectricCommander plugin for Perforce dramatically improve Enterprise CI adoption and preflight build performance.

Register today!

Application delivery automation tools should do more than just automate delivery. They should reduce companies’ time to market, scale to enterprise levels, provide cross-project visibility, enable compliance and security, and increase resource utilization. Many open source tools fail to provide all of these benefits – inflating companies’ total cost of ownership. Join our webinar to learn about the hidden costs of open source tools and how Electric Cloud’s ElectricCommander provides the enterprise-level solution you need for success.

Who should attend this webinar?
•Companies struggling to consolidate open source sprawl
•Growing organizations currently using open source automation tools
•Build, test, and release teams held back by their current automation process
•Managers and executives who have limited visibility into their software application development process

Register today!

European webinar- 10 AM BST / 11 AM CEST (this is the corrected time)
No one said that finding out what the universe is made of and how it works would be easy. But at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, thousands of scientists are trying to do just that every day.

The development team at CERN has created many applications including the ROOT platform, a big data analysis for its High Energy Physics computing. These applications are used by more than 20,000 users to create cutting edge scientific software. Understanding that the quality of their application is critical for its large customer base, CERN adopted Agile practices like Continuous Integration (CI) and testing.

Please join this European webinar to hear how CERN implemented Electric Cloud’s scalable automation solution to build and test their complex software applications to improve their code quality and increase their release frequency.

Join this webinar to learn:
•How CERN validates their code quality when creating applications designed to identify the existence of sub-atomic particles
•Why buildbot couldn’t scale to CERN’s needs
•What benefits more than 20,000 users enjoy from CERN implementing Electric Cloud’s ElectricCommander solution

Continuous integration (CI) is one of the core best practices of agile development. It is intended to support the agile development precept to "deliver working software frequently" by allowing teams to regularly validate their code changes. But achieving the benefits of CI is often hampered by the need to commit changes to the code base before they can be fully tested. This reactive approach results in broken builds, builds that do not pass system or smoke tests, and, inevitably, wasted time by the individual developer or the team at large.
Join Wind River and Electric Cloud as we discuss the concept of "preflight operations"—giving developers the ability to fully build and test their changes before committing them to the source code repository.

By attending this webinar you will learn:
•How to reap the full benefits of CI and Agile development by employing “preflight operations”
•How the build a system in isolation, ensuring your changes won’t break other concurrent changes
•How to minimize build times, by running parallel builds and optimizing checkout times
•How to minimize test cycles by avoiding irrelevant tests

What does it take to implement the Agile methodology effectively?

The Agile software development methodology is composed of a number of techniques designed to help deliver incremental releases of high-quality software more quickly than ever before.

In this Webinar we present five distinct challenges that if left unaddressed will drastically reduce an organization's ability to gain the benefits promised by a move to Agile development methods.

- Manual procedures
- Performance inefficiencies
- Error-prone processes
- Disparate techniques
- Limited oversight

Attend this session to learn why automation is critical to scale and ensuring Agile success.

Today, software innovation is shifting from not just writing the code but also to delivering it to customers with fast time-to-market and with high quality. Rooted in agile development methodology, DevOps promises to deliver applications quickly and to improve the coordination between development and production activities.

Learn how guest speaker Tom Grant, Senior Analyst at Forrester sees DevOps and the market trends that are shaping the DevOps movement. You will also learn how Equinix, a leading provider of global data center services, uses Electric Cloud automation solutions to make DevOps a reality—building, testing and deploying applications in a minutes and improving software quality in the process.

In this webinar, you will learn:

- DevOps Concepts
- The journey—from Agile to Continuous Integration/Delivery to DevOps
- How Equinix has implemented DevOps using Electric Cloud