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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Implementing Successful Continuous Deployment Practices for DevOps
This session will cover how BUPA, a leading international healthcare group employing nearly 52,000 people with global operations, automated their complex software releases to achieve continuous deployment from Dev to Test to Production environments. BUPA was able to shrink the deployment package by 93%,...
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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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Agile Testing
Agile testing is becoming mainstream in software development across organizations of varying nature. What happens when organizations with large nested teams, compliance and regulatory needs, multiple release cadences and complex multi-tiered applications need to adopt Agile testing? How do you ensure...
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Testing in the Cloud
This session will cover the importance of Load Testing as part of the overall ALM strategy when build quality software. There are more barriers that prevent Load Testing from being part of this strategy. One of the largest barriers for Load Testing are machine resources. While discussing the Load Testing...
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From 0 to Continuous delivery at Emerging Health
David Fletcher will share his experiences on how he transformed his original team of an epidemiologist and a FrontPage developer with no process or tools to a fast-paced multi-team agile organization applying ALM & DevOps best practices and leveraging most of the Visual Studio ALM capabilities. The...
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Exception Monitoring
This session will demonstrate how development organization can inject exception tracking into traditional, cloud, mobile and modern apps resulting in the automatic creation work items inside Team Foundation Server. Development organizations consume production usage and event data differently than their...
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Data Driven Decision Making
The journey to modern practices requires an organization to transition from decision making based on leadership and experience to a culture of data driven decision making. This change that spans process, technology and culture shifts. In this experience report, Erik will present a number of examples...
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Testing for Continuous Delivery for Visual Studio 2012
Testing has changed dramatically over the last several years, and what we've learned has changed our tools and our workflows. While the goal of a testing organization is to continuously test a system to ensure the best experience for its customers, the reality is bit different. Because of the cost and...