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Managing and Tracking Distributables

No matter how big or small your project, or even your organization as a whole, release management simply cannot be overlooked. Learn how centralized distribution, when focused on from the beginning, can make everyone's job easier, in order to give your customers a better finished product.

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Testing Release Management in the Cloud

For many organizations, cloud computing has transitioned from a hyped buzzword into a reality in regards to their business operations. Many more enterprises are realizing the benefits of remote hosting IT services rather than local IT management, especially as managing and operating IT networks and services is not getting any easier.

Dan Joe Barry
Aspects of Release Management

The lack of proper planning can doom any project, or team. By involving every stakeholder, release management is made easier by helping to ensure customer satisfaction. Deadlines are able to be met, and with the exact product your customer had in mind.

Iniyan Charles's picture Iniyan Charles
Release Management and Deployment Essentials

Business requirements often dictate how changes in release management are addressed. But by following some essential practices and core beliefs, database deployment does not have to result in the headaches once caused.

Uri  Margalit's picture Uri Margalit
The Wrong End of the Stick

When we don’t understand what the words we use could mean to our customers and business stakeholders, we can trigger misunderstanding or strong emotional reactions that impair working relationships. To be successful, we either need to speak our customers’ language or, when we don’t speak their language, act with conscious intent.

Fiona Charles's picture Fiona Charles
How to Squeeze the Most Out of Your Automated Testing

Jonathan Lindo describes examples of automated test infrastructure utilizing both open source and traditional, independent-software-vendor-sourced software. In addition, he discusses new techniques for extending the value of automated testing by transforming the process from defect finding to defect resolution by reducing the effort required to document, reproduce, and troubleshoot the defects generated from automated tests.

Jonathan Lindo
Path to Agility 2011 - Kelly Allen - Deming Then, Now, and for the Foreseeable Future
Podcast

Kelly Allen is one of the foremost experts on Edward Deming. In this discussion, he talks about measurement, punishment by rewards, human factors in organizations, and organizational development to education.

Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne
From One Expert to Another: Simon Baker From One Expert to Another: Simon Baker

In this interview, author, speaker, and agile tester Lisa Crispin speaks with Simon Baker, cofounder of Energized Work and recipient of the Gordon Pask award, about the approaches and tools his lab uses.

Lisa Crispin's picture Lisa Crispin
A Practical Way to do Agile in an Enterprise ALM Environment

While some falsely accuse agile of not being scalable at the enterprise level, large development teams are beginning to see the benefits that agile can bring larger environments. As more business leaders, and CTO's become familiar with agile methodologies, the trend will only continue to rise.

TechWell Contributor's picture TechWell Contributor
Continuous Integration and the Automated Database Update Process

Developers must have good feedback to ensure productivity. Most shops have a continuous integration (CI) build process that allows the developer to quickly know if a build failed, and some shops have an automatic deploy of the CI build to provide website feedback. Lance Lyons writes about an approach to automating the update of databases in a CI environment.

Lance Lyons

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