Brad Appleton

Brad Appleton

Brad Appleton
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7 years 11 months
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Brad Appleton is an Enterprise Agile+DevOps leader, coach & manager, and seasoned DevOps/ALM/CM solution architect at a large Fortune 100 company. Currently he helps organizations and teams scale, adopt and apply lean/agile development methods and DevOps/ALM/CM practices and tools. He is co-author of Software Configuration Management Patterns, a columnist for the AgileConnection (and CMCrossroads) at Techwell.com, the Streamed-Lines branching patterns, and a former section editor for The C++ Report. You can read Brad's blog at blog.bradapp.net.

My Contributions

Agile Software Configuration Management: Communications and Documentation
Agile SCM: Basics for Small Teams
Agility Throughout the LifeCycle: The Rise of DevOps
CM as Communication and Coordination Enabler
The Decline and Fall of Agile SCM—and the Rise of Lean SCM
How Does Software Development Fit in with ITIL's Configuration Management Database?
Sometimes, You Just Need to Slow Down
Beware the IDE: The Risks of Standardizing on One IDE
Agile SCM - Review of 2008 and Predictions for 2009
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Getting Started with Agile SCM
Defining Agile SCM: Past, Present & Future (2008)
Breaking News: Build Still Important, but Deployment Is King!
Product and Project Software Configuration Management (SCM)
An Agile Approach to Release Management
Transparency improves Governance
Agile SCM - Review of 2007 and Predictions for 2008
Testing's Role in the Software Configuration Management Process
Testing is Essential to Agile SCM
Lean-Agile Traceability: Strategies and Solutions
Lean Development Principles for Branching and Merging
Lean Metrics for Agile Software Configuration Management
The Renaissance Builder
Agile SCM January 2007 - Looking Back to Move Forward
A Christmas (Configuration) Carol (Abridged)
Agile SCM and Requirements
Simple Ain't Easy: Software Design Myths and Realities
Agile SCM: Martial Arts Principles
Agile SCM - Relating Patterns to OOD, TBD and POB Principles
Principles of Agile Version Control: From Object-oriented Design to Project-oriented Branching
Characteristics of the Agile SCM Solution
"Agile" Change Management: From First Principles to Best Practices
Agile SCM: It’s All Related
Is Continuous Integration Just Another Buzz Word?
Agile SCM – Build Management for an Agile Team
Applying Agile SCM to Databases
Continuous Staging: Scaling Continuous Integration to Multiple Component Teams
Software Configuration Management Patterns
Best Practices of Agile SCM
Principles of Agile Version Control: From OOD to TBD
Agile SCM 2005 - Reflecting back on the year in books
Private Developer Workspaces: Where the Development Process Meets SCM Process
Agile SCM January 2006: Looking Ahead
Evolving beyond Version Control for Agile Development
Feature-Driven Development: An Agile Alternative to Extreme Programming
Balancing Individual versus Collective Code Ownership
The Unchangeable Rules of Software Change
The Importance of Software Builds: Building Earnestly
The Future of Agile Configuration Management: 2006 and Beyond
The Illusion of Control in Software Configuration Management
The Agile Difference for SCM
Agile Build Promotion: Navigating the Ocean of Promotion Notions
Learning from Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems Design
Building For Success
An Agile Perspective on Branching and Merging
National Treasures of Agile Development
Requirements-Based Development: A Software Configuration Management View
The Trouble with Tracing: Traceability Dissected
Agile Configuration Management Environments
Codeline Merging and Locking: Continuous Updates and Two-Phased Commits
The Need for Agility in SCM

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My Questions & Answers

A What are the advantages and disadvantages of Distributed vs Centralised SCM?
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