PerfectBuild
The Challenge of Change
Fixing the Software Build Problem
It's the same old story: you need to improve quality and deliver more functionality – in less time and for less money. This is what drives software development teams to seek out new ways to improve effectiveness and productivity across the entire development lifecycle.
More and more development organizations are realizing that software build cycles represent an area of enormous potential for achieving better results. This potential is based on two fundamental facts. First, builds are integral to every aspect of development and even small improvements can have a dramatic impact on developer productivity, software quality, and time-to-value. Second, that software build systems are in need of a great deal of improvement.
Each incremental step up and down the development chain from individual developers to teams, integration to release, can be hampered by change. Changes that slow cycle times and cause frustration. Forward-thinking development organizations are now requiring greater agility from their build operations. Types of change that must be managed include:
- Increases in build frequency in support of Continuous Integration & Test
- Incorporation of new tooling and platforms
- Changes to steps in the build process
- Changes to code organization driven by activities such as refactoring, componentization, SOA, or business mergers
Any of these events can have a negative impact on the organization's existing build systems, forcing development managers to seek out remedies. But after years of propping up aging build platforms, many have simply hit the wall. Homegrown systems aren't cutting it, and retrofitting them with supplemental technologies like accelerators is like putting band-aids on top of band-aids.
It's time to fix, once and for all, the software build problem.
It's time for the agility of Codefast.
It's time for PerfectBuild.
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