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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Continuous Delivery- Jez Humble
- Agile Developer Track, Technologies and their Impact
- Day 3
- November 17, 2011 from 4:30PM to 5:30PM
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Businesses rely on getting valuable new software into the hands of users as fast as possible, while making sure that they keep their production environments stable. Continuous Delivery is a revolutionary and scalable agile methodology that enables any team, including teams within enterprise IT organizations,...
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The Microsoft Vision for ALM- Jason Zander
- Keynote, Technologies and their Impact
- Day 3
- November 17, 2011 from 8:30AM to 9:30AM
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Using Visual Studio 11 and Scrum to Plan and Track Software Development- Richard Hundhausen, Mike Vincent
- Technologies and their Impact
- Day 3
- November 17, 2011 from 12:00PM to 12:30PM
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In this overview, Richard Hundhausen and Mike Vincent provide a quick guide to implementing Scrum using Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 to plan and track software development.
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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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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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