Just as the title states, not everyone can adapt to the demanding and unpredictable nature of a build and release engineer’s job.  We just recently hired an intern for our group to help out with the hectic build implementation tasks.  The intern in question had a website design background which I believed was thoroughly shocked [...]

Another Agile concept we’ve adopted within our group is the daily stand-up meetings.   At first glance, this may seem like an evil way of micro-managing but that thought quickly dissolves once the values of such meetings started to add up. These daily stand-ups should be conducted just as the title implies; everyone must be [...]

Tools such as XPlanner should be the cornerstone of a software configuration management group.  This iteration and user-stories based model planning tool allows software configuration management engineers to have a more complete picture of what the current tasks/projects are and what’s in the back-burner. The way my current team uses this tool is we break [...]

To promote the spirit of Agile Development and Continuous Integration, groups of builds must be classified and treated differently within the development organization. These builds are as follows: Engineering: These builds lives on the individual developer’s machine. It should never see the light of day beyond this scope. This is merely a convenient build tool [...]