Project Automation at Cape Town SPIN next week

13 Mar 2008

The Cape Town SPIN (who don't believe in permalinks for meeting information, so you can only ever get information on the next Cape Town SPIN meeting) is meeting on Wednesday, March 19, to discuss Project Automation and Software Configuration Management.

 

Software Configuration Management

Software configuration management, and its central theme of version control, is and old topic, and yet many people ship software products without really getting all the potential benefits. In this talk I'll survey the current state of the art in tools and thinking. A few recommendations will be made, especially for small teams who are not too keen on heavy-weight process.

Project Automation

Performing repetitive tasks is tedious, error prone and never fun. Software projects is full of potentially boring but important task, such as building, testing and deployment.

Automating such tasks does not only relieve pain but also provide the development team with a useful early warning system. However, one needs to be pragmatic about the time spent creating and maintaining automated tasks.

These are topics close to my heart (and memory, since this is what I've spent a large chunk of my time focusing on the last few months), so I'll probably be at the Bandwidth Barn from 18:15 next Wednesday to hear what the speakers have to say.

 

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