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Free Webinar: Emerging SCM Best Practices for Agile Development

February 3rd, 2009 by AccuRev
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AccuRev is hosting a free Webinar on “Emerging SCM Best Practices for Agile Development” on Thursday, February 5 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST. The webinar will introduce the unique demands that agile processes place on legacy SCM tools and ways to build and automate an efficient Agile development process. Damon Poole, AccuRev CTO, and Uttam Narsu will be presenting.

Mr. Narsu, an industry expert on software configuration management (SCM) best practices and former Forrester/Giga analyst, will discuss the most important aspects to consider when applying SCM best practices to an agile world.  Mr. Poole will discuss how Multi-stage Continuous Integration can solve some of the underlying impediments to a successful Agile development environment.

“SCM is critical to Agile success. If your SCM tools don’t provide integrated and seamless support for Agile, you won’t get widespread adoption of Agile development,” said Narsu. “Development teams require brutally efficient SCM tools, but the tools must still be issue-based, must have support for flexible process models, and enable efficient branching, merging, and refactoring. The SCM tool should also provide private workspaces and assist continuous integration.”

Mr. Narsu has worked with hundreds of clients using wildly differing software development environments. While clients who succeed with agile development have strong SCM practices, the best practiced agile SCM: transparently integrated, flexible, and collaborative.

Specific topics discussed will include:

  • Typical SCM obstacles to Agile success and how to avoid them;
  • Key Agile Process requirements for SCM products and specific use case scenarios;
  • Challenges with continuous integration, and how Multi-stage Continuous Integration delivers value and how to adopt it today; and
  • Key SCM metrics for delivering on Agile development goals.

Register here for this free webinar taking place on Thursday, February 5th from 1:00-2:00 EST: Emerging SCM Best Practices for Agile Development.

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AccuRev is a 2009 Jolt Award Finalist

January 22nd, 2009 by AccuRev
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AccuRev is once again pleased to inform everyone that its flagship product, AccuRev, has been selected as a Jolt Award Finalist for Dr. Dobb’s 19th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards in the Change and Configuration Management category. 

For the past 18 years, the Jolt Product Excellence Awards have been presented annually to showcase products that have “jolted” the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient. The awards presentation is sponsored by JOLT, the fabled soft drink quaffed by software developers for sustenance during project development marathons.

“The Jolt judges have selected these finalists from the nearly 300 qualified nominations that were submitted online. The submissions represent the many innovative tools available for every phase of the software development lifecycle,” said Amber Ankerholz, Jolt Award Project Manager. “This year’s finalist round was extremely competitive and we appreciate the effort all of the participants put into showcasing their products’ features for the judges.”

In the next round of the Jolt Award process, the judges will examine the finalists according to the standard criteria of audience suitability, productivity, innovation, quality, ROI, risk, and flexibility. They focus on products that are ahead of the curve, universally useful, rich in functionality or that were solutions to problems in their product space.

Winners are announced during the Jolt Awards ceremony that takes place on March 11 at SD West 2009 Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

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Free Webinar: The Business Case for Pragmatic ALM – Agility with Governance

December 1st, 2008 by jwaccurev
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As an AccuRev blog reader, you’re welcome to attend our upcoming free webinar that will discuss the intersection of Agile development and governance:

As more and more software development teams adopt Agile or other iterative processes it becomes difficult for them to reconcile the current state of their governance practices with a need for greater speed and improved productivity. Developers get frustrated with overbearing compliance regimens that fence them in and stifle creativity, while their managers struggle with the need to balance innovation and speed with predictability and control. In today’s market environment, eliminating waste and fast implementations that demonstrate value quickly are essential.

Join experts from AccuRev and special guest Forrester Senior Analyst Jeffrey Hammond, as they examine the market trends that are driving many organizations to reassess their software development and release processes, and what steps and tools these development teams are taking to best support heterogeneous software development process environments. You will also see a live demonstration of how to implement pragmatic ALM with AccuRev.

Attend this Webinar and learn:

How Agile processes and compliance can coexist in harmony

What pragmatic ALM is and how it can help you solve today’s business challenges

How to manage multiple processes dependent on project requirements (Waterfall, Agile, etc.)

Best practices for optimizing tools and processes for both software development and release management.

When: Thursday, December 4 at 1:00 PM EST

Register: The Business Case for Pragmatic ALM: Agility with Governance

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