ALM Summit 3 keynotes and sessions provide deeper insight into the modern application lifecycle. Learn about industry best practices that address your development challenges, and how Microsoft's ALM solution can enable and support those best practices. In addition to keynotes from industry experts, ALM Summit 3 features four session tracks:
Lightning sessions are 15-minute talks that provide concise information.
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Being Agile. Scaling Up. Staying Lean
Dean Leffingwell helps some of the world's larger software enterprises achieve the benefits of adopting agile methods. As he does so, he continues to learn new things about scaling software agility. In this keynote he shares his latest thinking.
Leffingwell is the creator of the Scaled Agile Framework,...
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Building an Engineering Organization for Continuous Delivery
Brian Harry shares behind-the-scenes information on how Team Foundation Service is developed and announces exciting additions in his ALM Summit keynote. As of now, Team Foundation Service provides a distributed version control offering with Git repos, and Visual Studio offers full Git integration with...
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A New Era of Computing
History will look back and identify September 2012 as the dawn of a new computing paradigm and the official end of the "Search-and-Browse" era that Google dominated. James Whittaker talks about this momentous event, shares some history about prior eras, and looks ahead to what this new era...
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Lean Startups, Demystified
In the 2000′s we spent our time figuring out how to build better software with Agile, and now we're trying to figure out how to build software that people actually want with Lean Startup principles.
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Agile 2.0: Software Development in the Era of the Open Graph
A process is a product of its era. In 2001, when Agile 1.0 was conceived, the world was very different than what it is today. No Facebook. No Instagram. No Pinterest. The premise of this presentation is that the differences between where we were then and where are now lead us to a different process,...
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Reimagining the Application Lifecycle
A new set of software lifecycle practices has evolved, often called Lean Startup or Customer Development, and has been emerging from Silicon Valley and accepted into the mainstream of enterprises worldwide. The central tenet is that business experimentation for customer fit is the core value of the lifecycle,...
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Practical HTML5
Whether you're building a new website or maintaining an existing one, you'll leave this talk ready use HTML5. We'll look at what it offers modern application developers and how you can code rich Web Applications both today and tomorrow. In this talk we will see how to build an awesome website which uses...
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Integrating Development and Operations for Last Mile Velocity
Getting the right information needed to fix a bug in production is key to reducing the mean time to resolution (MTTR). One aspect of the DevOps movement is targeted squarely on decreasing the friction between development and operations. By increasing the collaboration capabilities between System Center...
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Agile Contracting in the Second Decade of Agility
Whether you're buying or selling Agile software development, this session will alter your perspectives and expand your toolkit allowing you to change your practices to produce more of the results you're looking for.
You will learn:
- Why traditional software contracts are a barrier to Agility
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Estimating for Software Development, Delivery, and Deadlines
Software development is often fundamentally different than the analogies used to describe it. Accordingly, estimating what software will be done and by when can be an exercise in frustration. Yet, some teams seem to just "get it", making accurate predictions of cost or effort. Other teams struggle...
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Load Testing a History-Making System
ALM has been the key driver to the success of many software projects. However, have you ever imagined that it can be an effective part of a nation history-making quest?
The Arab Spring swept across Northern Africa and the Middle East in 2011, bringing about dramatic changes in the governing authorities....
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Building an Engineering Organization for Continuous Delivery
Brian Harry shares behind-the-scenes information on how Team Foundation Service is developed and announces exciting additions in his ALM Summit keynote. As of now, Team Foundation Service provides a distributed version control offering with Git repos, and Visual Studio offers full Git integration with...
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Version Control On Your Terms
With Team Foundation Server you and your team get to choose how you want to handle version control. Come along to this session to learn about all the latest source control developments in Team Foundation Server. We will show how to get the most out of the new version control tooling available inside...
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Agile Under a Waterfall
It would be so easy if everyone at our companies just used Scrum -- or at least Agile. No one would lean on the team for dates and deadlines, and everyone would know that change is a good thing. It'd be one great big happy project management family. But let's face it -- an all-Agile organization isn't...
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Deployment Pipeline
The deployment pipeline is an automated representation of the process followed to build and deliver software. TFS is flexible enough to hold different workflows for this pipeline, although, out of the box, it does not mirror the way the pipeline is expected to be set up for continuous delivery. But,...
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“How am I doing?” Personal Retropsectives on Developing One’s Craft
Start your year right with a focus on your own professional development. Diana Larsen (co-author of: Agile Retrospectives, Liftoff, and Virtuosity) will describe a way to "take stock" with a personal retrospective. What's the best way to find answers to the questions, "How am...