Making the Business Case for a Better Continuous Delivery Pipeline

This session will cover the commercial impact of applying standardized build automation across an organization. Whether you are automating commit pipelines, continuous delivery pipelines or push-button release processes, we will reveal why an Enterprise extension of Gradle is a the perfect solution to scale out the build logic.

Effective build automation can have large benefits when applied to software build systems, especially in terms of developer productivity and risk reduction.
Our Enterprise clients often have a large number of software products under development at any one time 10s, 100s, and even 1000s of products in their portfolio.

We'll discuss the business case for implementing build automation at scale, and review the challenges in implementing across a portfolio. Finally, we'll review Gradle's enterprise friendly features that make it a compelling tool for enterprise build automation at scale.

About Peter Walker

Peter brings to Gradleware more than 20 years experience as a software developer and enterprise architect in the engineering and financial technology sectors. From 1998 to 2012, he worked at Goldman Sachs, most recently as the CTO of the GS Application Practices Group. In this role, he delivered an integrated development platform for firm-wide usage that satisfied audit and regulatory controls for GS software development. A strong advocate of project automation and agile, lean, and TDD techniques, Peter has committed code to open source projects, such as Fitnesse. He previously taught TDD classes at Goldman Sachs.

A graduate of the University of Birmingham in England, Peter holds a master’s degree in manufacturing engineering and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He lives outside of New York City with his family.

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