Stew Robinson is a developer at The Economist.com and talks about the continuous integration deployment that is being used to slowly migrate The Economist from a custom Cold Fusion CMS to Drupal. It's certainly one of the most sophisticated project management and deployment set-ups that I've seen in the Drupal community.

With Rob Purdie as their "Scrum Master," Stew talks about the different ways of running scrum with their distributed team and their centralized team.

The Economist is also unique in that they're collaborating with a lot of different Drupal shops and independent contractors as well as their own internal Cold Fusion who were trained by Lullabot.

They're also working with Chapter 3 on building their continuous integration system using the Vulcan Amazon EC2 machine instance for Continuous Integration using Hudson Continuous Testing/Integration system, which Zach Rosen talks more about here.

They're also using JMeter to test functional behavior and measure performance.

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