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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Staying in the Groove
Getting in the groove, achieving flow, being focused... these are all different ways of talking about that magical place that agile teams strive to find. Getting there is hard, staying there is harder. How do you get yourself and your teams motivated, engaged and focused on their work so they can achieve...
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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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Technical Interviewing - You're Doing it Wrong!
How do you know if you are good at technical interviewing? The feedback loop for interviewers is too long and incomplete to allow people to see their mistakes and improve themselves, instead just copying the same practices they've seen from others before them. Consequently, most people in the industry...
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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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Continuous Deployment: The Dirty Details
Continuous Delivery changes the fundamental processes involved with building software and launching new features. This talk will focus on the impact of Continuous Delivery on software release cycles, managing versions of software and database schemas, the structure of your engineering team, and risks...
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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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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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Implementing TFS: Lessons Learned at Siemens Healthcare
Implementing TFS as a new ALM system within a large-scale brownfield project is not an easy task. During this challenging trip a lot of pitfalls can be avoided. The migration of an entire product line brought up many lessons learned which will be shared during this talk. ...
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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
- The basics...