Brad Appleton is an Enterprise Agile+DevOps leader, coach & manager, and seasoned DevOps/ALM/CM solution architect at a large Fortune 100 company. Currently he helps organizations and teams scale, adopt and apply lean/agile development methods and DevOps/ALM/CM practices and tools. He is co-author of Software Configuration Management Patterns, a columnist for the AgileConnection (and CMCrossroads) at Techwell.com, the Streamed-Lines branching patterns, and a former section editor for The C++ Report. You can read Brad's blog at blog.bradapp.net.