ALM Summit 2011
- Redmond, Washington
- November 15 - 17, 2011
- Speakers at ALM Summit 2011
If you are an ALM practitioner, lead, or manager who is passionate about mastering your craft, the ALM Summit will help you gain deeper insight into your application lifecycle. You will also discover and learn about industry best practices that address additional development challenges, and how Microsoft's ALM Solutions enable and support those best practices. The ALM Summit will provide you with new tools for making better design, implementation, and technology selection decisions.
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ALM - With Power Comes Great Responsibility- Thomas Grant
- Keynote, Best Practices
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 8:30AM to 9:30AM
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As software delivery becomes more important then so does the discipline for supporting it. ALM is that discipline, providing the structure, tools and practices to enable software to be planned, delivered and maintained. But as software delivery velocity increases, certain reduces and globalization takes...
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Continuous Feedback- Justin Marks
- ALM Leadership Track, Best Practices
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 9:45AM to 10:45AM
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How often have you built software that matched what your customers asked for, only to find out when you're ready to ship that this is not quite what they wanted? Have you ever struggled to understand what your customers *really* needed while looking through the list of specifications they doled out for...
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Agile User Experience Practices Applied- Miki Konno
- ALM Leadership Track, Best Practices
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM
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Working in 3-week sprints, the Visual Studio ALM teams had to create practices to quickly ideate, develop and test user experiences within the sprint cadence. Miki will cover how the teams applied "Quick Pulse Studies" to put new ideas, designs, and concepts in front of customers on a regular...
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Sharing Data- Ward Cunningham
- Agile Developer Track, Best Practices
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM
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When Nike announced that it was offering a one-year fellowship to help ignite an open data revolution with the company, Ward Cunningham could not resist the challenge. Nike is committed to investigating the societal benefits of disclosing its data covering product materials, factory locations, carbon...
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It's Getting Cloudy- Mark Russinovich
- Plenary Session, Technologies and their Impact
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 1:00PM to 1:45PM
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In this presentation, Mark gives an overview of Microsoft's cloud operating system and explain how Microsoft views the cloud computing shift to be as significant as the PC revolution. First, Mark defines "cloud" and enumerates the several types of clouds. He explains Windows Azure Platform-as-a-Service...
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Lessons from the Cloud- Brian Harry
- Plenary Session, Best Practices
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 1:00PM to 1:45PM
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Over the past year, we have been redeveloping TFS on Windows Azure, now in public preview. We have also been running a hosted TFS service internally at Microsoft for six years with tens of thousands of users. Running services at scale requires a different approach to managing release cadence, quality,...
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ALM in the Jungle- Mik Kersten
- ALM Leadership Track, Best Practices
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
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Over the past decade, many ALM stacks have shifted from vertically integrated silos to tangled and disconnected systems reminiscent of the London tube map. Layer upon layer of legacy, piecemeal Agile deployments and open source tools have brought traceability to a halt, forcing us into overloaded email...
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Unit Testing from the Trenches: Practical Lessons & Practices- Scott Densmore
- Agile Developer Track, Best Practices
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
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Most programs are read more often than they are written. How do you communicate to the next set of eyes how your code is intended to work? Unit tests are not only a great way to flush out design, ensure your code does what you expect, and communicate to the readers of your code. This session will discuss...
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Being Agile Across Technology Borders- Martin Woodward
- Agile Developer Track, Best Practices
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 4:30PM to 5:30PM
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What a customer needs from your company has no respect for the technology you happened to use to help them. They don't care if one part of your infrastructure is built in .NET and the other in Java. Neither should you when you are tracking the status of your product backlog items. Yet often information...
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ALM Tools Vendor Panel- Thomas Grant, Cyndi Mitchell, John Weingard, Melinda Clover, Sam Guckenheimer
- ALM Leadership Track, Panel Discussion, Best Practices
- Day 1
- November 15, 2011 from 4:30PM to 5:30PM
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What is the state of ALM in the industry and has it changed over the last few years?
What are the biggest challenges to adopting ALM?
What is next? What is the next big thing for ALM?
Join Thomas as he hosts a panel of industry executives John Weigand (IBM), Cyndi Mitchell (ThoughWorks), Melinda Clover...
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