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| Do more, better, with less. |
| Reduce cost, increase quality. |
| Automate software delivery with a Software Factory. |
| Faster time to Market |
| Gain Competitive advantage. |
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Your strategy is that you want competitive advantage through faster time to market of higher quality products whilst getting more out of what you have and reducing your overall cost-base.
You want to increase revenue, reduce costs, and you want seamless acceptance of your software by delighted repeat and new customers.
You are frustrated that, despite ever-increasing expenditure, some unknown force seems to be able to de-rail your efforts to implement the strategy that you know is needed. Projects are late, they don't work properly, transition to operations is a painful experience. And, everywhere you look, there are expensive consultants charging time and materials to solve problems that don't seem to be getting solved.
You are frustrated that, despite the very best planning and management efforts, you are spending 90% or more of your time in Quadrant I, and none of it Quadrant II. Your training and experience tells you that you need to be in Quadrant II, but nobody can tell you how to get there.
You know from experience that Quadrant I is all about solving symptoms and not solving problems. That it's all about doing things that are borth urgent and important. You know that 100% of your resources are being expended in solving these symptoms, and that nothing is being done to make it better in the future.
You ask a simple question:
"What do I need to do to solve this problem?"
And you get a lot of conflicting and confusing detail about "environment issues", "deployment", "dependencies" and other things which you just don't see as being relevant. It would seem that nobody can give you the simple answer you are looking for.
Except BuildMonkey. We have worked in large-scale software development for 15 years. We were the first to pioneer Software Delivery Automation™. We know what is causing your problems, and we know how to fix it. Permanently.
Software Delivery Automation™ is the last frontier in large-scale application development, and it is a Quadrant II activity. This 100% of effort spent in Quadrant I that stubbornly refuses to go away is simply a lack of automated delivery mechanisms. To eliminate this waste, you need an automation strategy that fits in with your own strategy and roadmap. An automation strategy that delivers your strategic vision of faster time to market with better quality that your competition..
BuildMonkey™ are the world leaders in Software Delivery Automation™. We have the tools, the processes and the experience to help you wring the waste out of your delivery activities by helping you formulate and implement your automation strategy.
Unlike other software companies, BuildMonkey™ empowers you with the capability to indepently manage, maintain and adapt the world-leading end-to-end solutions we deliver in conjunction with you.
You are never on your own with BuildMonkey™. Your problems are our problems. We are with you every step of the way. Our Zealot™ support services - 100% dedicated to solving your problems in your timeframes - are the best in the world.
Our customers gain competitive advantage through faster time to market of new products and services, of higher quality, and they achieve this whilst reducing their cost base. They do more, better, with less. So could you.
EVTDirector™ is a very simple concept that saves an awful lot of time and money by eliminating "environment issues".
It allows systemic dependencies and environmental assumptions to be tested and verified well ahead of deployment, meaning that handover and deployment becomes seamless.
It provides traffic-light status of all of your environments in realtime, and allows these results to be exported to Excel spreadsheets for reporting, baselining and auditing.
Out of the box, it checks:
- Network connectivity
- HTTP requests
- Filesystems
- User and group accounts
- Web Services
- DNA™
- Versions of deployed artefacts
and, through it's extensible plugin system, adding new tests is as simple as adding a .jar file to the classpath.
EVTDirector™ 1.3.1a User Guide
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| Industrial strength software factory |
| Reduce cost, reduce timelines |
| Consistent, repeatable, low-cost quality |
| Eliminate environment issues |
| Automated Software Delivery |
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Do you want an industrial-strength Software Delivery Factory?
Are you looking to reduce costs and timelines through a Software Delivery Automation strategy?
Do you have an acute deployment problem preventing you from meeting your deadlines?
Are there too many "environment issues" for your liking?
BuildMonkey™ Consulting is here to help. Email consulting@buildmonkey.com, or by Instant Messenger
Whatever it is you need help with, we will help you.
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| Do what you do already, only better |
| Productive people, healthy bottom-line |
| Simple, repeatable, consistent delivery |
| Milestones met with less defects |
| Do more, better, with less |
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We are constantly developing and refining more effective and efficient ways of automating delivery of large-scale and complex software. Through doing so, we have come to value:
| Pre-emptive problem hunting |
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reactive problem solving |
| Automating low-value work |
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people doing it manually |
| Accommodating how people work |
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enforcing new practices |
| Re-using existing tools |
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building new tools |
| Self-identifying artefacts |
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heavyweight manual records |
| Deploying by contract |
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keep hacking until it works |
| Big from small parts |
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monolithic systems |
| Intelligent data |
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clever algorithms |
Our goal is to give you competitive advantage and a healthy bottom line by helping you to do what you do, and do it better.
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| Specialist skills in-house |
| No reliance on external organisations |
| Expert resource, hand-picked by experts |
| Maximise your time, let us kiss the frogs |
| People who hit the ground running |
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Do you need specialist build resource - either contract or permanent?
Do you need to augment your existing skills?
Do you want your build people to be found and filtered by specialists who know what to look for?
Is the quality of candidates from your current resourcers too low? Do you want to improve it?
BuildMonkey™ Resourcing is here to help. Email consulting@buildmonkey.com, or by Instant Messenger
Whatever your resourcing needs, we will help you meet them.
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| Automated Software Factory™. |
| Reduce time-to-market to reach delighted customers. |
| Deliver projects early. |
| Increase testing time and effectiveness. |
| Do more, better, with less. |
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The following are complete applications developed by BuildMonkey™:
| EVTDirector™ v1.3.3 |
Contact Us for an evaluation |
| SoftwareFactory™ v1.3.3 |
Contact Us for an evaluation |
The following are free tools developed by BuildMonkey™, yours to download and use:
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ClassLS
Like which, but for Java classes - quickly and easily locate a java class in a bunch of .jar files. Particularly useful when builds are failing because of compilation errors.
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classls |
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JarDiff
Analyses two .jar (or .zip) files, and reports on differences between them.
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JarDiff.exe |
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The following are tools which should be part of every build and deploy toolkit. We did not write this software, although some of it is so brilliant that we wish we could take the credit for it. If you have purchased Zealot™ support, we will support the following software:
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| 24x7 Zealot™ support |
| Your priorities, your timelines |
| Solutions, not blame games |
| Permanent problem resolution |
| Do more, better, with less |
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Zealot™ Support Mission Statement:
No matter whose problem it is, find it and fix it. Delight our customers. Get them running again, whatever it takes
We are here 24x7 to support you and your business. Your problems are our problems. We are the only company in the world who provide Zealot™ support.
Unlike a lot of software companies, we know that when you call us it is because you have a problem you want fixed. You are not particularly interested in who owns the problem, or whether or not any particular vendor or component is at fault.
It is your business that is losing money, your project that is losing time, and you want the problem fixed. Fast.
BuildMonkey™ Support is available in a number of levels:
- Standard
Normal office hours.
- Committed
Extended support hours to accommodate your timezone.
- Zealot™
24x7 response, we are dedicated to the cause until you are delighted. No matter whose problem it is, or where the problem is, we will get you running again - whatever it takes.
BuildMonkey™ Support are here to help. Email support@buildmonkey.com, or via Instant Messenger:
Whatever it is you need help with, we will help you.
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| Know the terrain |
| Eliminate organizational tension |
| Consistent, repeatable, low-cost quality |
| Eliminate environment issues |
| Automated Software Delivery |
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BuildMonkey Consulting Mission Statement:
Make sure that the customer meets their objectives. Eliminate the waste. Get them to market faster, with higher quality at lower cost. Whatever it takes.
Do you want faster time to market of higher quality products?
Do you want to deliver projects early, and have more time for testing?
Do you have an acute problem preventing you from meeting your deadlines?
Are there too many "environment issues" for your liking?
BuildMonkey™ Consulting is here to help. Email consulting@buildmonkey.com, or by Instant Messenger
If you believe that delivery is costing too much, and taking too long, then the chances are that you are right. We can show you where the waste is, and how you eliminate it.
Whatever it is you need help with, we will help you.
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| Independence from third-parties |
| In-house capability |
| Retained knowledge |
| Training by domain experts |
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At BuildMonkey™ we know that you want to be independent of third-party expertise. We know that you have the raw talent in-house to achieve what you want to achieve, but that that raw talent may lack some of the domain-specific knowledge and experience they need.
That is why we have developed two levels of certification and training:
BuildManager™
For Managers who need to be able to manage the Build, Deployment and Environment Management function. The main benefits of this certification are:
- The 10-point plan for managing Build and Deployment
- How to break these complex activities down into manageable chunks
- What metrics to gather, how to gather them, and what they tell you
- What questions to ask, and of whom to ask them, to get meaningful information
- How to implement an Automation Plan alongside a Delivery Plan
- How to manage mutiple parallel development streams
BuildMaster™
For technical staff who wish to be able to perform the complex tasks of Build, Deployment and Environment Management:
- Build, Assembly and Testing using Ant
- Deployment
- SCM Repository Management
- Branching and Merging
- Deploying to and Managing Multiple Environments
- Automation and Scripting
- DNA™ and Self-Identifying Environments
- Troubleshooting and Diagnosis
BuildMonkey™ Training are here to help you help yourself. For details of upcoming courses or bespoke training packages, email training@buildmonkey.com.
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| Specialist skills, commodity prices |
| Reduce capital expenditure |
| Control costs |
| Increase efficiency and effectiveness |
| No lock-in |
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At BuildMonkey™ we know that there is a significant overhead in building and maintaining a development infrastructure, and that not all of the resources are being directed towards revenue-generating or investment activities.
Whilst your designers and developers are certainly working on revenue or investment activities, your build and SCM resources are most certainly not.
Talented build and SCM resources are expensive, and less-talented resources can be very very costly.
This is why BuildMonkey™ offer a build and SCM outsourcing service. You pay commodity prices, yet you are buying specialist skills. You get the benefits of the entire BuildMonkey Software Factory™, and you don't have to pay for it.
You can instantly scale your activities up or down as you need to, without the time lag and the risk of hiring new resources.
You get BuildMonkey™ talent where you need it most, and you get it for a fraction of the cost of hiring a junior developer.
Do more, better, with less. Contact us now and find out how you can improve your capability at the same time as reducing your cost base.
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| World-leading research |
| Knowing the terrain ahead |
| New ideas for tomorrow's problems |
| Plan ahead with confidence |
| Future-proof solutions |
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At BuildMonkey™ we know that standing still is not an option if you want to retain competitive advantage. You have to find new routes and shorter times to market, whilst consistently improving quality and value.
Advancements in techology create new challenges for delivery, whilst adhering to your strategic vision.
We are world-leaders in advancements in the build, deployment and SCM disciplines. We are constantly innovating new ideas and refining old ones to blend the Best Practice of the past with the dynamic new technologies of the future.
Unlike most technology companies, we know that technology is a means to an end and not an end in itself. We are dedicated to enabling business to travel at the speed of light in a planned and measured way.
We are the pioneers of technologies such as DNA™, UCPLs™ and Continuous Release™. We are the most innovative and forward-thinking Build and Deployment organisation in the world.
We do what we do to enable you to do what you do.
Managing Multiple Environments
Managing multiple environments using EVTs, and how to answer the question "Why does it work here and not there?"
Productivity and Quality With CVS
Despite its age, CVS is still the repository of choice for a lot of projects. This paper describes how to get meaningful management information from CVS
Agile Deployment
A set of Best Practices and learned wisdom which will help you to deploy first-time, on-time, every time.
Agility Through DNA™
How to implement and use DNA to support Continuous Release™ and create self-auditing environments.
Core-Philosophy™
Everything we do is governed by these principles. They have been the mainstay of our operations for nearly 20 years, and have served us well. If more people did things this way, then the world would be a better place.
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