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Uttam Narsu will kick-off AccuRevÂ's Spring Thought-Leadership Series on SoftwareDevelopment by explaining how to leverage best practices to address difficulties indevelopment processes around build and release management.
Narsu said:  Most companies gaze longingly through a doorway, one leading to thepromised land of build and release automation. They tremble, knowing that crossingthat threshold is possible only when an organization  its culture, processes, andtechnology  is ready to accept the changes demanded by best practices.Â
Narsu describes a seven-step process to implementing a scaleable best practicesframework, and discusses such practices as: SCM planning, appropriate baselines,private workspaces, merge and integrate often, and absolute reproducibility ofdevelopment artifacts.
Further presentations from Jim Graham and Brad Hart will show attendees how toreduce complex merges from days to minutes and create completely reusable andrepeatable builds, while reducing ad hoc build processes.
Graham, a Sr. Developer with Catalyst Systems Corporation, will demonstrate howOpenmake combines its leading Build Workflow technology with ALM process managementto achieve reuse and consistency from build to release.
Hart, AccuRevÂ's Vice President of Technology, will highlight the unique ability ofAccuRev to easily support complex branching and merging.
RegistrationTo register for this live online event taking place on Tuesday, March 28 at 11:00a.m. EDT, please visit http://www.accurev.com/events. html.
About Catalyst SystemsCatalyst Systems Corporation is the leading provider of Enterprise build managementsoftware and pioneer of the commercial build management software industry. CatalystSystems has specialized in the design and implementation of reliable and repeatableapplication build processes for Global 2000 organizations since 1995. Openmake,Catalyst Systems' flagship product, enables development teams to get back to thetask of writing code.
About AccuRev, Inc. AccuRev provides process change management for geographically distributed softwaredevelopment. AccuRevÂ's award-winning software configuration management (SCM)solution easily and efficiently manages change within complex development projects.Control parallel development across multiple products, projects, releases and timezones with dynamic process flexibility. The AccuRev stream-based architectureprovides an agile, powerful, and TimeSafe foundation to secure critical businessapplications and software assets. AccuRevÂ's best-of-breed approach and out-of-thebox integration with third-party tools provide an optimal application lifecyclemanagement solution. AccuRevÂ's process change management products are used by agrowing number of global enterprises, including American Airlines, Citibank,Polycom, Sony Computer Entertainment, Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin. AccuRev,Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts and is privately held. Moreinformation about AccuRev can be found at http://www.accurev.com, or by calling1-800-383-8170 (US and Canada), + 44 8456 869 328 (UK) and 1-781-861-8700 (OutsideNorth America).
Copyright  2006 AccuRev, Inc. AccuRev, and TimeSafe are trademarks of AccuRev, Inc.All other trademarks mentioned in this release are the property of their respectiveowners.
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Alex Forbes AccuRev, Inc.781-861-8700 ext. 163 aforbes@accurev.com
Barbara StewartPatterson & Associates480-488-6909barbar a@patterson.com
