Why you need an Intelligent Build Manager

See if this describe your situation:
You have been working hard to concentrate on building and developing your knowledge, product, and team for the past few years. And now it is the time to expand and grow the scale. Only there is a problem; the whole environment became complex and unmanageable. All of sudden, the multiple builds or deploys per day needs more human's attention, some last-minute fix need to be packaged or stripped out within limited time frame. You feel frustrated and need a dedicated person to take care the chaos and make it back to order.

However, all experienced technical staffs you have are working on something important. And most worsted, in deep down, they don't want to do this not-that-core-technology type of work. They are afraid to lose their state-of-the-art technical skills by doing this work over time. However, you know you need to find a technical enough and yet detail-oriented person who is willing to take it serious to build, coordinate, and manage the whole process and even develop some tools around it to make it automatic, mistaken-proven, and even traceable and analyzable.

Then when you look from the outside, you realize the candidates are either not technical enough to understand the technology you are developing and deploying or they are another highly focused technical talent who don't care about other part of business process.

It is at this moment, you need a partner, an Intelligent Build Manager, on your side to help you regain the control of your software development and management. Here are some challenges the Intelligent Build Manager can help you:

• Understand the main technology and product of the development team and their various deployment needs
  
• Setup, configuration, and integration of software development tools
• Work closely with team leads from various departments to match the teams' styles and needs.
• Automation tools for timely deploy, communication, account management
• Define and improve process for developers and PM to follow and benefit from
  
• Build environment management: accounts, branching, merging, repository, upgrade
• Streamline the software development life cycle or Agile loop
  
• Continuously integrate version control tools with defect/bug tracking tools, dynamic email distribution list, project management status reports, and QA needs
  
• Develop, maintain, and manage Build related tools/programs for obvious reasons
• Generate risk and resource analysis reports for senior management team to review and plan in the future

Why an "Intelligent" Build Manager?
You do actually need an intelligent individual to deal with those tasks not only that, but also you need the Business Intelligence (BI) technology to help your Build/Release Management. We want to apply BI's concept and tools to release management so we can do the data mining to find out how we can improve the application management processes. By using dashboard and scorecard, with the graphical KPI illustration, all involved parties can easily find the progress, forecast, and risk through the Web interface. This is the solution to fix the view difference between developers (tree) and project management (forest).

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or in need to resolve any or all of this issues.