Robert Cowham is part of the Consulting Team at Perforce.
He joined Perforce at the start of 2014, having spent many years as a Consultant helping companies worldwide to apply configuration management principles and practices across the enterprise, from software development, build and release through managing infrastructure.

Robert’s passion is in understanding the overall system architectures, including impact and dependency analysis, documentation practices and automation of them to best support business value.

Robert was a longterm Perforce Consultant and certified Trainer and is the co-author of “Learning Perforce SCM” (PACKT Publishing in September 2013) with Neil Firth. Robert is Vice Chair (previously Chair) of Configuration Management Specialist Group in the BCS, the chartered institute of IT, formerly known as the British Computing Society. You can read his blogs at perforce.com/blog.

LOCATION: Zürich
KEYWORDS: Concept, Methods, Technology, Tools

SPEAKER: Robert Cowham    COMPANY: Perforce
SLIDES: 141209_JUGS_Zurich_Continuous_Delivery_Robert_Cowham.pdf

In this talk Robert will discuss some of the challenges that organisations face on their journey towards Continuous Delivery (CD) and approaches to handling them.

The ability to deliver software continuously is tremendously beneficial for organisations. It builds on processes and best practices that have been around for some years, including agile and lean methods.

As with many such initiatives, there is a fair amount of hype amongst the good practice. There are plenty of challenges along the way to the CD nirvana, even for those organisations who are greenfield sites, or using modern programming languages and processes.
These range from dealing with legacy systems, to handling database schema changes in a consistent and reproducible manner.

Approaches include the foundation of versioning everything, to the mantra of "aggregating marginal gains". This talk is based on practical experience with customers, relevant case studies, and training courses being offered on the subject.

LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Robert Cowham is part of the Consulting Team at Perforce.
He joined Perforce at the start of 2014, having spent many years as a Consultant helping companies worldwide to apply configuration management principles and practices across the enterprise, from software development, build and release through managing infrastructure.

Robert’s passion is in understanding the overall system architectures, including impact and dependency analysis, documentation practices and automation of them to best support business value.

Robert was a longterm Perforce Consultant and certified Trainer and is the co-author of “Learning Perforce SCM” (PACKT Publishing in September 2013) with Neil Firth. Robert is Vice Chair (previously Chair) of Configuration Management Specialist Group in the BCS, the chartered institute of IT, formerly known as the British Computing Society. You can read his blogs at perforce.com/blog.

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