Posted by Michael Chletsos on Wed, May 22, 2013
I just finished up a webinar entitled Production Monitoring: The Key Steps Towards Continuous Delivery, presented with Airbrake.io The webinar focused on how Production Monitoring is the most important process in any application, but particularly online applications when practicing Continuous Delivery.
The Key Points were:
- Continuous Delivery is not a process that I can define for you, rather its a goal.
- The Goal of being able to continuously deliver your code to QA/UAT or Production and react in real time to the results of the release.
- Iteration Planning is Stressful
- Confidence in Releases is Key to Automating Deploys
- Confidence in Code is Key to Moving Fast
- More Data and Less Stress
If you missed the webinar, you can view it above or watch it on youtube and/or download the slides.
At the end of the webinar, I was left wondering: How does Assembla fit into the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? Stay tuned, more to come.
To Learn More about Continuous Delivery checkout some of my other blog postings:
Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment vs Continuous Integration
Distributed Continuous Integration - Keep the Mainline Clean
Avoiding Premature Integration or: How we learned to stop worrying and ship software every day
Posted by Jon Friedman on Wed, Nov 28, 2012
On November 15, Assembla and WANdisco presented a webinar Beyond Scrum: Scaling Agile with Continuous Delivery and Subversion. For those that did not get a chance to register or attend, the video and slides are below. Enjoy.
View and download the slides
In this 30-minute webinar Andy Singleton of Assembla and Scott Rudenstein of WANdisco described how to go beyond traditional Scrum principles and scale to globally distributed teams with continuous delivery and Subversion.
They discussed how to:
- Achieve continuous delivery using branch, merge and code review techniques.
- Accelerate the work and coordination of multiple distributed teams without lengthy meetings.
- Improve performance and security management, while replicating real-time repositories, within a centrally-managed Subversion infrastructure.
Other Releated Resources from our Blog:
Posted by Jon Friedman on Mon, Nov 05, 2012
On November 15, Assembla and WANdisco are presenting a webinar:
Beyond Scrum: Scaling Agile with Continuous Delivery and Subversion
Andy Singleton of Assembla and Scott Rudenstein of WANdisco will describe how to go beyond traditional Scrum principles and scale to globally distributed teams with continuous delivery and Subversion.
In this 30-minute webinar you’ll learn how to:
- Achieve continuous delivery using branch, merge and code review techniques.
- Accelerate the work and coordination of multiple distributed teams without lengthy meetings.
- Improve performance and security management, while replicating real-time repositories, within a centrally-managed Subversion infrastructure.
Thursday, November 15th at 20:00 CEST | 2:00 pm EST | 1:00 CST | noon MST | 11:00 PST | 19:00 UTC
Posted by adam feber on Thu, Oct 11, 2012
Below is a recording from the September 26th event, "The Future of Cloud Development," where Andy Singleton, CEO of Assembla, digs deep into the changes affecting cloud-based application development.
Andy focuses in on the trend of teams moving away from a traditional Scrum process and more towards scalable Agile practices that leverage cloud-based resources like continuous integration and on-demand test environments to achieve continuous delivery.
To learn more about how Assembla can help you achieve continuous delivery, check out Assembla's professional services.
Posted by Jon Friedman on Thu, Sep 27, 2012
On 9/25/2012, Assembla and Perforce presented a webinar titled "Beyond Scrum: Introducing Simple Scalable Agile Development." It is very clear that this is a hot topic with over 1,000 people registering for the webinar. For those that did not get a chance to register or attend, the video and slides are below. Enjoy.
View and download the slides.
Webinar Overview:
Scrum is the most popular Agile process, and aspects like the daily meeting are familiar to most developers and businesspeople. But it's not for everyone.
Scrum was designed for small collocated teams working on simple projects. Larger Scrum projects can experience hierarchical planning, integration nightmares, and inefficient use of resources.
In this webinar you'll see an Agile framework that avoids these problems by recognizing the concept that managing code is often easier than managing people.
Other Releated Resources from our Blog:
Posted by Jon Friedman on Fri, Sep 07, 2012
On September 25 Assembla and Perforce are presenting a new webinar:
Beyond Scrum: Introducing Simple Scalable Agile Development
Scrum is the most popular Agile process, and aspects like the daily meeting are familiar to most developers and businesspeople. But it's not for everyone.
Scrum was designed for small collocated teams working on simple projects. Larger Scrum projects can experience hierarchical planning, integration nightmares, and inefficient use of resources.
In this webinar viewers will see...
- An Agile framework that avoids these problems by recognizing the concept that managing code is often easier than managing people
- A demonstration of this framework that uses Assembla's hosted planning tools and Perforce repositories.
Presented by:
Andy Singleton, CEO of Assembla, and Randy DeFauw, Technical Marketing Manager at Perforce
Tuesday, September 25 | 19:00 CEST | 1:00 pm EDT | noon CDT | 11:00 am MDT | 10:00 PDT
You can also try Perforce on Demand, hosted by Assembla here.
Posted by adam feber on Thu, Mar 15, 2012
View and download the slides from the webinar here
This webinar covered how to accelerate software development by combining elements of Scrum (with fixed-length sprints), Kanban (continuous flow with rapid completion of each selected task), and Scalable Agile (multiple contributing teams working on a big project).
Agile expert Damon Poole describes how to introduce Kanban into a Scrum process, how to accelerate development with "One Piece Flow", and how to coordinate the work of multiple teams.
Assembla founder Andy Singleton previewed his vision of Scalable Agile, and showed two related features. The "Simple Planner" view of Assembla tickets with an AJAX UI helps you to move effortlessly between Scrum iteration planning and Kanban. The Advanced Merge Request feature can help you manage continuous development and release.
Questions ans answers from the webinar have been posted in a seperate blog post.
Posted by adam feber on Thu, Jan 19, 2012
Below are the updated overview videos for Assembla's most used collaboration tools - Wiki, Files, and Messages. If you are not taking advantage of any of these tools, you can add them to your project workspace in seconds from the Admin tab of of you space.
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The Wiki tool is ideal for organizing pages for instructions, ideas, specifications, documentation, and anything else you want. Add new pages in seconds, and customize the navigation to fit your needs. Let other team members contribute; if you don't like their additions, just roll back to any previous version. |
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The Files tool provides a central and secure place or organize and manage project files and Google docs. You can add files and Google docs directly to the Files tool or you can upload them to tickets, messages, wiki pages, etc. - either way, all your project files will be organized and searchable from the Files tool. |
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The Message tool lets team members communicate with each other while maintaining a centralized record of all conversations. Messages are a great way to facilitate communication and collaboration without messy email threads that get overlooked, clutter email inboxes, or don't reach everyone. |
These videos and others can be found on Assembla's YouTube channel.
Posted by adam feber on Tue, Jan 17, 2012
We have updated our Ticket tool overview video to ensure that you and your team get the most from this powerful tool.
This updated video was the result of a conversation with an Assembla user that said "the ticket tool is great, but I wish we could customize the workflows," not knowing that this can easily be done from the ticket settings page. Several other times, I have talked to users that were unaware of the Cardwall and/or Planner views. So even if your a seasoned veteran, take a few minutes to watch the video below - you may learn a thing or two.
Posted by Andy Singleton on Mon, Dec 05, 2011
Below is the video presentation from a previous webinar on "Managing Distributed Teams with Assembla." You can also watch the video on YouTube. We built Assembla to manage distributed teams, and we work as a distributed team. Our experience might be helpful to the 79% of software projects that have team members in more than one place.
The presention covers how to:
- Set up and manage a cloud-based development environment
- Coordinate team activities across multiple time zones
- Apply Agile techniques to globally distributed teams
- Manage a global development organization