Join us for the Summer 2015 VUG on August 19th, in which we will present, discuss and demonstrate how to optimize your development and delivery toolchain. In addition to shift-left, we will show how you can increase deployment automation and collaboration across Development and Release Operations.
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Welcome to the quarterly Dimensions CM VUG
News and Announcements
Automating the development & delivery
toolchain
Demonstration
Q&A – Ask the Experts
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News and Announcements
Requirements Engineering Best Practices
Serena Software Ships Solutions to Accelerate Application Development
Serena Software speeds application development
Kiuwan Announces Partnership with Serena and Integration with
Dimensions CM 14.2
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Upcoming Event – Mark Your Calendar Sept 10th 2015
Title: Take your code and quality to the next level
Description: This presentation will discuss the merits of static analysis and how you
can leverage Kuiwan with Dimensions CM to shift –left, and elevate your code quality
to the next level.
The deployment pipeline toolchain involves many tools that cross many organizations and teams.
Teams tend to have a very tool centric view, focusing just on how that particular tool supports their specific job tasks
Dev teams are focusing on SCM and CI tools, Infrastructure teams are focused on environment provisioning, QA teams and DBA’s focusing on their respective tools as well.
This causes a lot of gaps in traceability across the toolchain. It also can cause significant waste and increased lead times if this toolchain is not seamlessly integrated and automated as a software build get deployed across the deployment pipeline.
the problem is that in many software projects, once the build is done there is a big disconnect between the build and deploy processes. While development teams own the development and build processes, the deployment process generally transitions to another organization, which has a different set of tools, scripts and processes to deploy and test the builds across the deployment pipeline. Frequently the toolchain integration with the CI server is poor or non-existent. A literal handoff occurs and the deployment team begins a manually intensive process to deploy release candidates to test and production environments. This disconnect becomes a bottleneck as the deployments queue up, leading to poor quality deployments and longer cycle times at a higher cost to the business.