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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Agile Development- Peter Provost
- People and Culture, Agile Developer Track
- Day 2
- November 16, 2011 from 9:45AM to 10:45AM
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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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Questioning the Big Bang Theory: The Case for Incremental Change- Steven Borg
- ALM Leadership Track, People and Culture
- Day 2
- November 16, 2011 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
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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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Project Patterns: From Adrenalin Junkies to Template Zombies- Tim Lister
- Keynote, People and Culture
- Day 2
- November 16, 2011 from 8:30AM to 9:30AM
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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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Scott Guthrie: Azure Unplugged- Scott Guthrie
- Plenary Session, People and Culture
- Day 2
- November 16, 2011 from 1:00PM to 1:45PM
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Engage with Scott Guthrie in an unscripted, interactive session about developing for Windows Azure.
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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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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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Exploratory Testing- Anu Bharadwaj
- Agile Developer Track, Technologies and their Impact
- Day 3
- November 17, 2011 from 9:45AM to 10:45AM
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Customers could not be on every team all the time – so God created testers! (smile) As a customer proxy on the team, a tester is constantly on the lookout to evaluate if the product being shipped has the promised customer value. After all, customer value is what decides if a product is worth buying or...
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Managing the Agile Process- Aaron Bjork
- People and Culture, Agile Developer Track
- Day 2
- November 16, 2011 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM
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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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Agile Acceptance Testing: Mitigating the Risks of Enterprise Software Development- Rod Claar
- Agile Developer Track, Technologies and their Impact
- Day 3
- November 17, 2011 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM
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Enterprise software development is tough. The risks encountered by organizations working on software products are complex, changing and often rooted in enterprise culture, domain and business issues.
Managing these risks effectively is required to meet enterprise goals.
This talk will discuss the use of...
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When Team Culture and Company Culture Does Not Mix: Social Deviance- Mitch Lacey
- People and Culture, Agile Developer Track
- Day 2
- November 16, 2011 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM
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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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