7 Challenges of Distributed Teams and How Virtualization can Improve your Development Operations
Software project teams are physically scattered today and teams are built from the best talents from around the world. Most current software projects--whether for medical systems, financial systems, defense, consumer products or embedded systems--cover multiple sites, include team members representing many different cultures, and include multiple disciplines. This highly distributed nature of software projects often requires teams to create software in collaboration with one or multiple partners, off-shore vendors, and remote customers. Learn the challenges of distributed teams and how a collaborative development platform can help.
Even though distributed development is becoming the norm for corporate software development, the operational infrastructure has not kept up with this rapid change. In a typical development organization, it is not uncommon to find hundreds, if not thousands, of code, build, and test servers collecting dust under the desks of developers. In most cases, these resources are not integrated into the development lifecycle; thus, projects are slowed by costly configuration errors, mismatched systems, and often evade compliance with governance mandates. A distributed environment adds further complexity while infrastructure costs spiral out of control.
At this event you will hear about the operational challenges project teams face in a distributed development environment and how an integrated development infrastructure can effectively manage and govern the code, build and test release cycles of large scale systems, increase productivity of distributed teams, and improve quality of delivered systems while ensuring that the projects are created in a secure environment.
This event was originally broadcasted on June 5, 2007.
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