(Suddenly, its June! How did that happen? Where did the year go already?!? Despite my recent public silence, there’s been a lot of work going on behind the scenes. Let me catchup on some overdue blogposts – starting with RelEngConf 2016!)

We’ve got a venue and a date for this conference sorted out, so now its time to start gathering presentations, speakers and figuring out all the other “little details” that go into making a great, memorable, conference. This means two things:

1) RelEngCon 2016 is now accepting proposals for talks/sessions. If you have a good industry-related or academic-focused topic in the area of Release Engineering, please have a look at the Release Engineering conference guidelines, and submit your proposal before the deadline of 01-jul-2016.

2) Like all previous RelEng Conferences, the mixture of attendees and speakers, from academia and battle-hardened industry, makes for some riveting topics and side discussions. Come talk with others of your tribe, swap tips-and-gotchas with others who do understand what you are talking about and enjoy brainstorming with people with very different perspectives.

For further details about the conference, or submitting proposals, see http://releng.polymtl.ca/RELENG2015/html/index.html. If you build software delivery pipelines for your company, or if you work in a software company that has software delivery needs, I recommend you follow @relengcon, block off November 18th, 2016 on your calendar and book your travel to Seattle now. It will be well worth your time.

I’ll be there – and look forward to seeing you there!

John.