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
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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Project Patterns: From Adrenalin Junkies to Template Zombies
Tim Lister, a Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, along with five of his partners at the Guild, have been compiling project patterns from their combined 150 years of project consulting, and they have delivered them in their Jolt Award winning book, Adrenalin Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding...
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The Microsoft Vision for ALM
Industry trends, new technology and rising customer expectations are all shaping ALM. How do you apply the best modern engineering practices and tools to build applications and services that enable a continuous flow of value to your customers, remove the impediments and create the transparency for ongoing...
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WIKISPEED
WIKISPEED is a real life scenario on the use of Agile and Scrum principles to build an environmentally friendly car that runs over 100 miles per gallon. Everything from creating collaborative work experiences to leveraging Scrum practices is demonstrated in this WIKISPEED presentation, where this team...
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Project Patterns: From Adrenalin Junkies to Template Zombies
Tim Lister, a Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, along with five of his partners at the Guild, have been compiling project patterns from their combined 150 years of project consulting, and they have delivered them in their Jolt Award winning book, Adrenalin Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding...
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User Panel
By popular demand and touted as one of the most informative, exciting and interactive sessions at last year's ALM Summit, the "User Panel" hosted by Sam Guchenheimer is back! Our goal is to take an insider's look at the challenges and options facing teams and their organizations as they transform...
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Agile Development
Agile Developers use a number of techniques to increase their confidence while they code, including test-driven development, aggressive refactoring, and continuous build feedback. In this talk, Peter will take you through a typical agile developer workflow using Visual Studio 2010 and some available...
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Managing the Agile Process
In this talk we'll look at strategies and practices to help your team maximize flow and minimize waste. We'll examine how to manage and prioritize your backlog, plan iterations of work, and execute quickly and efficiently. We'll also take a sneak peak at some of the new tools offered in Team Foundation...
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The Process Improvement Backlog
Discover BluePrint, a free TFS Template designed to manage practice improvement projects.
In general, development teams are aware of opportunities for improvement but struggle with prioritization, practice details and how to get started --- in comes InCycle Blueprint. The free TFS Template provides an...
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Questioning the Big Bang Theory: The Case for Incremental Change
Many agile methodologies require dramatic change to an organization during adoption. For instance, Scrum adoption often requires a complete reorganization of the development team, regardless of current structure or corporate culture. This can sometimes lead to dramatic success, but in far too many cases...
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When Team Culture and Company Culture Does Not Mix: Social Deviance
Scrum teams strive to create an atmosphere where people can enjoy the process of producing excellent work yet still meet business goals and remain profitable. Getting a team to a level where this is possible is often a struggle, but with management support Scrum teams can reach a high-performing, rich...
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Adaptive Leadership
Over the past ten years, increased global interconnectivity among societies, businesses and individuals has given rise to a lot of complexity. For most people and organizations, the future is more volatile and uncertain than ever before; and this is only the beginning. The next decade belongs those who...
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Source Control Strategies Panel
Join Keith as he hosts a panel of opinionated veteran developers Martin Woodward, Arlo Belshee, Jim Newkirk, and William Bartholomew explaining why their strategies are "the best way"!