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Another BCS Shropshire Systems Forum Event

About the speaker:

For this event we are very lucky to have Sean Hunter. He is very experienced in non Microsoft approaches to codevelopment, as well as Microsoft approaches, ie TFS, both on-premise and within Azure. In addition there is likely to be input from other experienced professionals, and yourselves, since we are all trying to do this "co-development" thing correctly.

About the topic:

Designing and developing software in a solo environment is more straight forward, but what happens when you need to scale up to a team based environment. How do you plug in contractors, in this lifecycle, on a short term basis?

Following on from our very excellent talk on Agile last month, we now focus on team based environments and tooling that enable top quality and agile system implementation and deployment. So you have a set of features, allocated to a sprint. What next? Who is coding what? How can we ensure that the new code is stored properly and does not conflict will a fellow coder’s efforts. How are all the deliverables merged successfully? How is quality baked into this process? How do we deploy?

Increasingly our competitors are upgrading their systems on an ever frequent basis. In some sectors, it is no longer good enough to release every six months, releases have to happen far more frequently. This is a huge challenge, and automation holds the key. This talk presents different approaches and tooling, from experienced. There is no one right answer.

Come along to this most relevant forum event which is likely to generate much debate, and add value to all of our efforts.

Expect to hear about:

• Why bother with a good approach to team development.

• How do we bake in quality?

• The importance of version control.

• How do we track the issues?

• What is continuous integration?

• What is application lifecycle management

• The way forward

We look forward to seeing you on June 6th at 7.30pm.

Itinerary:

7.30pm Arrive

7.45pm Talk

8.15pm Break/ Food

8.30pm Discussion

9.00pm Wrap up

9.15pm Close.

Food:

We have simple but good food. Basically there is a choice of fab pork pies, chips and bread or a vegetarian option. Please let us know when you book/RSVP. The cost is just £4 each, and is operated via a honesty system. Basically you pay us at the end of the event, in cash, and this is then directly paid to the pub for food.