Agile Webinars

Through a combination of continuous integration tools, deployment tools, project management tools and custom scripts, software professionals have become very good at automating their processes. But what happens when we automate a broken process?

How do move from releasing every few months, to weeks and then perhaps daily?

Is “Fail fast, Learn fast” the way to get there? Enough of talk… I’d like to see how it really can be done?

Please do join us for our Go User Group webinar (GUG) on Tue, Oct 30, 2012. This interactive (plenty of Q&A time) webinar will feature two 20-25 min presentations:

#12 - Implementing Continuous Delivery

While keeping software production ready throughout its lifecycle and optimizing your delivery process for shorter cycle times might seem like a good idea to you, your colleagues might not share your excitement. In this webinar, Jez Humble discusses ways of implementing continuous delivery, and shares stories from companies who have successfully worked to improve their capability in continuous delivery.

Webinar with Jim Highsmith and Suzie Prince

The Agile scaling myth goes something like this: “Agile development works well for smaller projects, but doesn’t scale to larger ones.” Which raises questions like: “At what size does delivering value to customers fail to be important?” and “Can large organizations afford to be inflexible, rigid, and unresponsive?” 

#10 - How Continuous Delivery Can Help Get the Best Out of the Cloud

While many believe that traditional applications and software related processes may not always work in the Cloud, in this Webinar Daniel Aragao and Nigel Fernandes will discuss how companies can move, create and maintain applications in this environment through Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, automation, monitoring and build pipelines. Archived video of this presentation is below and learn how to bring development and operations teams together to enable Continuous Delivery in your company.

#8 in the Continuous Delivery webinar series

How you actually build your software will affect your delivery effectiveness. Ensuring that your software is built with Continuous Delivery in mind will smooth downstream processes like Automated Acceptance Tests, Adhoc Environment creation, and Production releases (because Production is just another environment). In this talk Scott Muc describes his dream Release Management DSL and discusses its effects on how a team will build software. From what developers need to do, to how managers can read the warning signs on software that's difficult to release.

#6 in the Continuous Delivery webinar series

Many companies are adopting Continuous Delivery as a practice for accelerating cycle time between “development complete” and “in production”. However, development and operations teams in these companies have faced challenges in this evolutionary journey.

#4 in the Continuous Delivery webinar series

Automated testing is a cornerstone of Continuous Delivery. Automated functional testing ensures that your software is working across your value stream and that your organization has fast feedback when it's not. Maintaining automated acceptance tests, once a team has more than a few tests, isn't trivial however. This webinar covers best practices for keeping your functional test suites long-lived and healthy -- from test strategy and tools all the way to coding practices.

#2 in the Continuous Delivery webinar series

In this talk, Jez discusses how devops can be implemented in large organizations. He will provide a selection of the common issues with devops adoption, such as managing risk, compliance with regulation and frameworks such as ITIL, and meeting auditing requirements.

Sriram Narayan, Tech Principal, ThoughtWorks, explores the role and relevance of architecture in Agile development. He will also discuss ways to reconcile the desire for a coherent and well-designed architecture with decentralized decision making when working on large projects with multiple teams.

Chad Wathington, VP of Product Development, ThoughtWorks Studios introduces an entirely new and current approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM): Agile ALM. This approach outlines 5 key organizational practices that helps IT organizations meet increasing customer expectations and quickly adapt to competitive pressures through the design, development, and Continuous Delivery of high quality software.

Patricia Mandarino, Lead Consultant, ThoughtWorks, talks about what you need to do as a champion to facilitate a productive transition to Agile. As a Leader you have made a commitment to implementing an Agile development methodology within your organization. You communicate the directive (that's what it feels like to your teams) and you provide training for your teams. But that's not enough to insure success. What more can you do?

Patricia Carlin, General Manager ThoughtWorks, talks about Metrics versus Diagnostics, Reporting Progress and Providing Visibility and the necessity of producing metrics that add value and eliminating metrics that are now deemed irrelevant. The discussion also comprises guidelines on effectively using metrics on an Agile project as well as different types of metrics used on ThoughtWorks projects.

ThoughtWorks Studios invites you to join the first Go User Group meeting. During this interactive and informative webinar, Premium Credit Limited (a Bank of America company) will showcase how Go is being used successfully in their enterprise environments and how it enables them to practice Continuous Delivery.

Chad Wathington, VP - Product Development, will also share inside tips on getting the best from environments in Go. Our product experts will demonstrate how to migrate effortlessly from an open source CI tool to Go in your organization.

There is no Agile in a Box

Enterprises that are successful with agile software methods know that "Individuals and Interactions" are more important than "Processes and Tools". But the right tools really can make a big difference, particularly when their primary objective is to make individuals and their interactions more productive and meaningful. Cyndi Mitchell, Managing Director, ThoughtWorks Studios, talks about how to choose tools that are fit for agile teams across your organization.