Title of the presentation: Best Practices for Geographically Distributed Teams

Category: Technical presentation

Level: beginners

Date and Time: Wednesday, 15th October 2008, 02:15 p.m. - 03:00 p.m.

Abstract: In today’s world working in a distributed software development team is rather the default than the exception. In addition, projects are more often affected by changes in the team and in the entire organization. What are best practices around Subversion that development organizations can learn and adopt from OpenSource projects? What should you do and what should you avoid to create a resilient architecture for your version control environment based on Subversion?

The presentation covers new setups as well as improvements for existing environments.

Rainer Heinold studied computer sciences at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, Germany. After a short career as a software devleoper and project leader he is now supporting organizations for more than ten years with the adoption of modern CM practices and toolchains. In his current position as Technical Director Europe he is responsible for all technical services.