Continuous Delivery Pipeline in the Cloud – How to Achieve Continous Everything

Editor's Notes

• #3: Throughout the global economy, across all industries, companies are re-inventing themselves―to become better at sensing the next big thing their customers need, and finding ways to deliver it to them faster than the competition.   At CA, we’re fueling a big part of this revolution where ideas are the new currency. Our passion is helping you to champion your best ideas and navigate the obstacles across the application lifecycle to break through and produce real measurable outcomes.
• #4: Spreadsheets – 83% in NA Lack of visibility/stats – no way to tell what time is being spent where Automation and culture silos – need alignment to achieve real dev ops – but teams have different tools, different ways of working. How can we bring them together? Issues – testing is a bottleneck, security needs to be built in – but it takes so much time. And waterfall .Even if dev is agile, the end to end chain rarely is.
• #5: Speeding to success. Quality, efficiency, speed in a modern SDLC. What does it take? Breaking down barriers. Collaboration. Integration. Visibility and a common workflow.
• #6: Agility, Automation, Insights and Security are the critical components of what we call the modern software factory, your blueprint for success.   A modern software factory is agile, built to change and adapt to whatever the market throws at you. Agile teams work collaboratively and iteratively to bring new ideas to market, producing the outcomes that matter to customers.   Automation is essential, the key to continuously developing, testing and delivering app experiences your customers will love. Automation saves time, money, hassle and reduces errors, so you have more cycles to pursue innovation that creates new value.   Insights are the “competitive fuel” that keeps your factory moving in the right direction. Your software can be designed to give you a constant stream of feedback that smart analytics can turn into insights, to make sure the experiences you deliver keep getting better.   Strong security is designed into your apps from the beginning, protecting your most valuable assets and building users trust, without getting in the way.   A modern software factory excels at all four of these principles, for agility, automation, insights and security at scale—which means that you can consistently deliver the trust, value, speed and reliability that your customers demand.   Your modern software factory ensures that your company is ‘built to change,’ and adapt successfully to the increasing turbulence caused by the rapidly accelerating pace of change.
• #7: We know that testing is this critical but very time-consuming and manual part of the release cycle. Teams are adopting automation tools to help, but it’s important for testing to move earlier in the release cycle and also for more of it to happen in parallel. CA Continuous Delivery Director can eliminate this bottleneck by orchestrating an end-to-end testing workflow with automated promotion of a build to the next stage based on testing status and automatic feedback loops along the way. Ultimately, you’ll be able to achieve continuous testing and better application quality due a faster, more streamlined, rigorous testing regimen. FOOTNOTE 1-Bloor Report Automated test case generation - September 2014
• #8: Just like the hash tag says, this first use case enables you to get rid of the manual spreadsheets. CA Continuous Delivery Director basically becomes your automatically updating, easy to manage online spreadsheet for all your releases. All your planning and scheduling capabilities are in the tool so that you can ensure releases avoid conflicts and maintenance windows. And you can schedule multiple releases together into one release train if needed. Then for each release, CA Continuous Delivery Director orchestrates the workflow from what application content is moving through the flow, to all the steps and phases of testing, deployment and release. Communications happen automatically as the release encounters approval gates or code issues. Finally, you can get a roll-up of how your release is doing in the analytics dashboard—during the release and for analysis later.
• #10: We’ll help you get started – 15 minute demo.
• #11: Let me take you through some typical use cases for CA Continuous Delivery Director.