ThoughtWorks Launches Build, Release and DevOps Service Offering for Enterprise Agile Success

ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- (Agile 2010) – ThoughtWorks, Inc. (www.thoughtworks.com), a global IT consultancy focused on enterprise Agile software development, today announced Build, Release and DevOps, a new service offering that helps IT organizations assess, plan and implement new processes that lead to rapid and reliable releases of quality software. This hands-on, on-site service focuses on adopting proven best practices, deploying automation tools and properly aligning organizational structures that collectively bring stability and efficiency across the software lifecycle.

"IT organizations are focusing on becoming more adaptive to customers' needs and fulfilling those needs faster. This requires shorter release cycles and higher development throughput, achieved by improving processes, automation and the roles of both development and IT operations team members," explained Rolf Russell, build and release principal for ThoughtWorks. "We believe it is critical to view the pipeline from development through testing to production as a whole, or system, not as independent steps. This new service helps IT organizations remove operational silos and structural impediments that inhibit the entire build and release process."

Build, Release and DevOps is based on the extensive experience ThoughtWorks consulting and delivery teams have implementing best practices and technology platforms within large, complex and high-profile IT organizations. The initial offering is a two- to four-week engagement that focuses on assessing current methods and processes, and developing a vision roadmap for implementing change. This can then be followed with ThoughtWorks consulting and technical engineering experts embedded on-site to help implement the plan and facilitate a new, holistic and sustainable build and release program.

IT organizations that engage the Build, Release and DevOps service can achieve the following breakthroughs:

• Rapid and smooth progression from "feature complete" to "live," with deployment processes that are consistent and automated, and where testing environments are reliable and IT operations requirements are built into the system from the beginning.

• Turning production releases into non-events. Based on years of proven experience streamlining the path to production, ThoughtWorks helps customers reduce the time and resources typically required for enterprise software releases to a fraction of normal levels.

• Creating a build system that provides quantitative visibility into an organization's portfolio of applications and systems. This includes development progress metrics that help identify activities or stages that bottleneck or are unreliable.  It also includes code quality metrics that help identify areas of high risk for defects or high cost for maintenance.

• Uniting development and IT operations teams to partner and collaborate on improving the stability, throughput and quality of software releases. Development "hand-offs" of code to IT operations become efficient, leading to better trust, productivity and software getting into production rapidly.

ThoughtWorks (professional services) and ThoughtWorks Studios (Agile ALM solutions) continue to bring real-world experience together to advance best practices and automation around build and release management. An example is Continuous Delivery, a new Agile practice pioneered by ThoughtWorks that combines automation, engineering rigor and strong collaboration to break down the prevalent organizational silos that segregate development, QA and IT operations. To facilitate new levels of automation around Continuous Delivery, ThoughtWorks Studios recently launched Go™, a new Agile release management platform that allows organizations to incrementally automate the entire build, test and deployment process and release software faster and more reliably.

For a free trial of Go, please visit (http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/user/register& destination= forms/form/go/download) For more information about ThoughtWorks' Build, Release and DevOps service offering please call (312) 373-1000.

About ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks, Inc. is a global IT consultancy providing Agile-based systems development, consulting and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. It has pioneered many of the most advanced and successful Agile methods of software development and best practices used in the industry today. At its core, ThoughtWorks helps its clients maximize investment and performance across a portfolio of complex, business-critical applications, while reducing time and risk. Its products division, ThoughtWorks Studios, offers tools to manage the entire Agile development lifecycle through its Adaptive ALM solution™, comprised of Mingle®, Go™ and Twist®. ThoughtWorks employs 1,500 professionals to serve clients from offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. For more information please visit: (www.thoughtworks.com).

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