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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Continuous Feedback
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
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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ALM in the Jungle
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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ALM Tools Vendor Panel
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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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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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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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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ALM in the Cloud
Doug Neumann will share a first look at Visual Studio Team Foundation Service Preview. Visual Studio Team Foundation Service Preview is the next generation in application lifecycle management, agile project management and software development collaboration services based on the next version of Team Foundation...
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DevOps: Lessons Learned Running Microsoft Services
In this talk, Chris Hanaoka, GM, Global Foundation Services (GFS) Software Development, will share the Top 10 lessons learned within Microsoft around the inflection from world-class packaged software to world-class online services, and from private data centers to production in a public cloud.