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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Sharing Data
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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Unit Testing from the Trenches: Practical Lessons & Practices
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
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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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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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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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"!
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Exploratory Testing
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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Code Bubbles
We propose a novel user interface that is based on collections of lightweight editable fragments, called bubbles, which when grouped together let developers see many functions side-by-side. We will demo a prototype IDE user interface for C# and VB based on working sets called Code Bubbles (that you can...