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  • How Barclays Global Investors Centralized Development and Got Compliant – FAST!


    Regulatory requirements can completely change the game. If you were told you needed to get all of your source code into a single repository within 12 months to comply with regulations, could you do it?

    Barclays Global Investors (BGI) had just this problem, and they had to solve it quickly. Five months into their ClearCase implementation, they were no closer to their goal. 

    Imagine the situation...

    • A government regulatory committee mandates that you have one year to get all of your source code into a single repository – you cannot miss the deadline
    • You have already decided to move away from Visual Source Safe, which no longer fits your development needs – there is no going back
    • You think you have the answer, but five months into your ClearCase implementation, it becomes obvious that it won't be ready in time to meet the regulatory deadline – you can't keep doing what you're doing

    What would you do?

    With the clock ticking against centralizing development assets to satisfy a government mandate, two version control systems that did not fit the bill, and a range of development teams and practices to support, BGI turned to CollabNet for application lifecycle management (ALM). 

    Join Brian Roberson, Barclays' Head of Release Management, to hear how BGI used CollabNet's ALM platform to meet their aggressive government deadline, centralize development assets, and implement a long-term strategy for application lifecycle management that has continued to power BGI's global development environment for eight years.


    Brian Roberson
    Brian Roberson
    Principal, Barclays Global Investors
    Head of Release Management

    Speaker:

    • Brian Roberson, Principal, Head of Release Management, Barclays Global Investors