Stout Invites You to the Second of our Educational Workshops for
The Accidental or Reluctant Software Development Manager

Stout Systems is pleased to announce the second in a series of educational workshops geared towards what we call “The Accidental or Reluctant Software Development Manager”—someone who has been thrust into the role of managing a software development team, often against their wishes and with no formal training in the unique challenges of that role.

These workshops have been designed to be both educational and enlightening, and to provoke thoughtful discussion that will help attendees improve their effectiveness in managing software teams and projects. Each workshop will focus on a particular task or topic within the software development process; our goal is to allow attendees to walk away with useful new insights (best practices, etc.) relative to that particular topic. Each session will cover territory that, in many settings, everyone assumes is understood… but often is not.

No assumptions are made as to prior knowledge of the chosen topic, and the discussion is structured to enable anyone to derive value, independent of their experience level or technical background. Because software development is such a fast-moving field, we are confident that even highly-seasoned software development managers will derive value from the discussion.

The following session is currently scheduled and open for registration. We look forward to seeing you there.

Source Management: No Place for the Rugged Individual

(or “Best Practices in Source Control and Maintaining a Controlled Release Environment”)

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 – 8:00-9:30AM

VisTaTech Center at Schoolcraft College
18600 Haggerty Road Room VT445
Livonia, MI 48152

Cost? FREE

Reserve Your Seat

Source Management: No Place for the Rugged Individual

 
There are plenty of places for the rugged individualist in software development. But matters concerning source management aren’t one of them. The Software Development Manager must be the Supreme Commander and Reigning Monarch on decisions about how the source repository is used, how often developers check in code, how often code is built and the various release versions that the team will support. This workshop will equip the Software Development Manager with the information necessary to make the right decisions for his or her team.
 
There will be many topics covered:

• Release Versions
  • What are the different release versions?
  • How many should you have?
• Source Repositories
  • The two main types of repositories, and the strengths and weaknesses of each
  • The key concepts you need to know to decide how your repository should be used (e.g., trunk, branch, etc.)
• Source Management Best Practices
  • Frequency and size of check-ins,
  • Check-in comments, etc.
• Continuous Integration
  • Build frequency, etc.

Presenters will include Peg Bogema, Stout’s Vice President of Operations, and Dave Sweeton, Stout’s Chief Technologist. Peg and Dave are seasoned veterans of the software industry. Together, they have managed, executed and implemented hundreds of successful software development projects—and they have the physical and mental scars to show for it! Please join us as Dave and Peg share their triumphs, their heartbreaks and—most importantly—the lessons they’ve learned throughout their careers and the best practices they’ve developed as a result.