pain points of agile development
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Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools.
— Manifesto for Agile Software
Development, 2001
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What We’ll Talk about Today
3 Key Trends and 5 Pain Points
Global teams DVCS Agile processes
Latency Administration Governance Workflow Integration
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Pain Point #1
Latency
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Latency
• SCM latency means reduced developer productivity.
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Two Key New Latency Problems
• Global teams
• Continuous Integration
– CI can account for >50% of load on SCM servers.
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Global Project Staffing
• Global development -> virtual teams
• Developer and infrastructure may be on different continents
• Team membership may change quickly
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Prepare for the Staffing Shuffle
• Solve performance problems before you know the
geographic configuration of the team
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• Leading provider of scientific innovation
lifecycle management software
• Hot standby
• Perforce proxies for global development
teams
Accelrys
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Pain Point #2
Workflow
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Componentization
• Components are individually well-versioned
• How to track compatible versions across
components?
• Track component versions separately, or can
your SCM system do it?
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DVCS Usage
• Git, Hg and other DVCS provide strong versioning within
a software component
• Difficult to track versions across
– Software components
– Configuration data
– Binary assets
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Non-Code Assets
• Configuration files
• Binary assets
Save time: keep all needed resources in a common system.
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NVIDIA
• Many teams using Perforce
– Hardware
– Software
– Legal
• Many kinds of assets
– Code
– Hardware design
– Office documents
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Pain Point #3
Governance
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Versioning: Legal issues
• Establish prior use defence against patent trolls
• Track compliance with open source and other third-
party licences
• Code escrow
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Build, Test, Release
• Do Developers, CI, and QA get the same build?
• Can you reconstruct a “historic” build?
• Is the environment versioned together with code and
assets?
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NYSE Euronext
• Track installed versions of all assets
– Executables
– Configuration
– Scripts
• 198 projects
• 6600 releases/year
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Pain Point #4
Administrative Overhead
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Admin to User Ratio
• Large area of difference among SCM
systems.
• Can range from 1:30 to 1:1000 or more
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Key Admin Tasks
• Backup/recovery
• HA/DR
• Administration for replicas – build/test farms, analytics,
other Agile needs
• Upgrades
• User and Permissions Management
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Trend Micro
• Previous SCM system required a dedicated
server per location
• Migration to Perforce
– Increased performance
– Reduced admin requirements
– Perforce branching model enables
sharing among projects
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Pain Point #5:
Integration Nightmares
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Core vs. Context
• Administrators should not be rewriting basic code for
essential integrations.
• Look for SCM with well-tested integrations for the rest
of the ALM stack.
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Essential ALM Package for 2013
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NetApp
• Build environments
• Test environments
• Data retention and distribution
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How SCM Can Help
• Latency
• Workflow
• Governance
• Administration
• Integration
And > 5,500 Other Leading Companies