Tag: Agile Development

Dr. Dobb’s Webinar – Cloud-Enabled ALM: Continuous Integration and Automated Testing

  • Posted on: March 1, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Enterprises today are looking for ways to accelerate their rate of innovation, increase revenues, and lower the costs of software development and delivery. Agile development and testing methodologies are increasingly being adopted as a central means to accelerate the delivery of new software products to market. To support this, many application lifecycle management (ALM) products

Channel 9: ALM Summit Presentation on Agile Testing

  • Posted on: February 28, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
On January 31, I visited the ALM Summit and participated in the Agile Testing presentation given by Anutthara Bharadwaj. Her presentation addressed how Agile testing is becoming mainstream in software development across organizations of varying nature—and what happens when organizations with large nested teams; compliance and regulatory needs; multiple release cadences; and complex multi-tiered applications

Five Best Practices For Creating Cloud-Enabled Software Development

  • Posted on: February 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Hundreds of enterprise customers are leveraging cloud computing to better enable their IT to be Agile and power Agile software development teams. Companies that have successfully implemented cloud-enabled software development have subscribed to the following five best practices when creating Agile infrastructure: 1. Don’t change the Agile process to fit your legacy infrastructure; change your

Brett Goodwin to Speak at CAMP IT on February 28

  • Posted on: February 21, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Since 1984, CAMP IT Conferences have produced events designed to help IT professionals understand new technologies and make the critical, strategic, and tactical decisions for their enterprises. CAMP IT’s speakers all have practical experience in their topic area, as well as excellent presentation skills. Over 29,000 enterprise IT executives, management and technical-staff representing over 5000

Achieve Agility Throughout the Development Lifecycle

  • Posted on: January 30, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development is a goal that almost every development team shoots for these days. The more efficiently a team can deliver a product, the faster customers can gain access to it—and the faster the organization can generate revenue. But Agile development doesn’t just mean developers coding things faster. Every link along the delivery chain has

ALM Summit 3 – Expertise Worth Sharing

  • Posted on: January 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
This year’s ALM Summit runs January 29 to 31, and features keynotes and sessions by Microsoft executive and industry experts, as well as three focused breakout tracks: ALM Leadership, Agile Development, and new this year DevOps and Testing. Also returning is an update to last year’s popular full-time Hands-On Lab featuring self-guided tutorials on Team

Accelerate BDT Workflows with the Skytap Automation Pack

  • Posted on: January 29, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Agile development and testing methodologies enable businesses to accelerate the delivery of new software products to market. While some cloud services have attempted to provide a foundation for these Agile environments, they often require sacrifices from the development and test teams. Many cloud providers operate at the basic infrastructure-as-a-service level, which typically requires an up-front

White Paper: Putting the Agile into the Infrastructure

  • Posted on: November 28, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Today we released our latest white paper: Cloud-Enabled Software Development and Testing: Putting the Agile into the Infrastructure. In the paper, we examine ways in which organizations can implement cloud-enabled software development by adopting an Agile IT strategy. The following is an excerpt from the paper: Agile software development is winning the hearts and minds

Skytap Team at Agile Dev East in Orlando

  • Posted on: November 4, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is a Gold Sponsor of the Agile Development East Conference in Orlando, Florida, this week. Drop by Booth 13 in the EXPO hall on the 7th or 8th to discuss how the cloud enables Agile development and see a demo of Skytap Cloud. On November 7 and 8, our Vice President of Products, Brian

Can DevOps Turn IT into a Strategic Weapon?

  • Posted on: September 6, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Development, IT Operations, and business stakeholders who have teamed up to build a strong DevOps culture may be wondering if there is room to take things to the next level. Is it possible to use the DevOps methodology to build a competitive advantage? Damon Edwards of dev2ops.org says yes. Yesterday, Damon produced an interesting piece

Dev/Test: 3 Habits for Running a Successful Cloud Trial

  • Posted on: July 26, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
​Having personally helped hundreds of companies evaluate Skytap as a development and testing cloud provider, I wanted to pass along my top 3 habits for running a successful cloud trial. If you worked through the suggestions in my previous blog piece: Questions to Ask When Vetting a Cloud Service Provider, you will have a foundation

Five Ways the Cloud Can Supercharge Agile Development

  • Posted on: July 19, 2012
  • Author: Skytap
Time. Development and test teams never have enough of it. Now more than ever before, development and test are under constant pressure to release quality features as quickly as possible. In fact, results from a 2011 Serena survey show that developers rank delivering applications faster as their number one priority, even more important than reducing