Wednesday, June 30, 2010
1:00pm-4:00pm Eastern
10:00am-1:00pm Pacific

Join three Agile experts in this exclusive SD Times Virtual Conference, hosted by Kent Beck, "The Father of Agile," and moderated by Alan Zeichick, co-founder and editorial director of SD Times.

Watch all or part of this live three-hour Virtual Conference webcast, and learn from Kent Beck, Jez Humble and Timothy Fitz.

The ongoing revolution in software development consists mostly of dividing and re-arranging tasks that have always occurred. Some tasks are split across people, others are combined in a single person. Some tasks take place more frequently, others are eliminated as the need for them ceases. Continuous Deployment is one of the tasks that, surprisingly, can be valuable if done much more frequently than is common.

The practice in the second edition of Kent Beck’s "XP Explained" that prompted the most controversy was Daily Deployment, pushing software to deployment every day. Little did Kent know that five years later Daily Deployment would be passé. The frontier is deploying multiple times per day, as soon as the software is more valuable, either to the user or because its deployment will create information for developers. The way of the future, as you'll learn in this Virtual Conference focused on the principles of Agility, is Continuous Deployment.

Attend all or part of this Virtual Conference and learn:

• The potential benefits of Continuous Deployment (CD) to your organizations.
• The technology required to implement CD.
• How to apply CD to your company’s existing IT systems.
• How to apply CD to the software you're creating, both Web and client-installed.
• The social challenges of applying CD in your organization.
• The risks of doing CD wrong - and how you can avoid mistakes.
• The impact of CD on various job functions: testers, marketers, managers, programmers and other
stakeholders.
• The prerequisites to CD.
• Practical advice and best practices to take steps toward Continuous Deployment today.

Agenda and Timeline (all times Eastern):

1:00-1:30: Introduction: Kent Beck on Continuous Deployment in perspective
1:30-1:35: Break
1:30-2:10: Jez Humble on Continuous Deployment for enterprise IT
2:10-2:30: Conversation between Kent and Jez
2:30-2:35: Break
2:35-3:15: Timothy Fitz on Continuous Deployment for consumer software
3:15-3:35: Conversation between Kent and Timothy
3:35-3:40: Break
3:40-4:00: Conclusion: Applying continuous deployment by Kent, Jez and Timothy

Speaker Bios:

Kent Beck is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include pattern for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and extreme programming.

Kent currently divides his time between writing, programming, and coaching. He is the author/co-author of  Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition, Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Planning Extreme Programming, The Smalltalk Best Practice
Patterns, and the JUnit Pocket Guide.

Kent received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

Timothy Fitz is a Technical Lead at IMVU Inc. He is commonly known for bringing the practice of Continuous Deployment to the attention of the software development community. He is an author and speaker on software development topics, focusing on Lean Startup theory and practices. Timothy's blog on Continuous Deployment is available online at http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/.

Jez Humble is the Build and Release Principal at ThoughtWorks Studios. He manages the Cruise product, which covers build and release automation in TWS's tool suite. Jez also talks and consults around build and release management. Later this year he'll release his book, Continuous Development, written with David Farley - learn more!

Alan Zeichick is Editorial Director of SD Times. Alan co-founded BZ Media LLC in 1999, bringing 20+ years as a software developer, technology analyst and industry journalist to work on SD Times, the industry newspaper for the software development industry. Alan is member of the Editorial Committee of American Business Media and a Senior Member of the ACM. A prolific author and popular speaker, Alan is also founder and principal analyst of Camden Associates, a technology and media consulting firm.

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