• [05:35] - Define code quality indicators
• [17:18] - Incorporate unit testing
• [39:42] - Develop code
• [44:34] - Validate quality

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Introduction and Exam Overview
• Mod 02: Define an Effective End-to-End Software Development Lifecycle
• Mod 03: Define the ALM Process
• Mod 04: Define a Software Iteration
• Mod 05: Define End Value for the Software Iteration
• Mod 06: Develop Customer Value with High Quality
• Mod 07: Integrate Development and Operations

• [01:24] - Customize a team project
• [21:15] - Automated deployment process
• [1:03:45] - Microsoft System Center Family
• [1:10:05] - Course wrap up

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Introduction and Exam Overview
• Mod 02: Define an Effective End-to-End Software Development Lifecycle
• Mod 03: Define the ALM Process
• Mod 04: Define a Software Iteration
• Mod 05: Define End Value for the Software Iteration
• Mod 06: Develop Customer Value with High Quality
• Mod 07: Integrate Development and Operations

• [01:23] - Elicit requirements
• [16:50] - Estimate requirements
• [35:23] - Document requirements
• [54:17] - Prioritize requirements

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Introduction and Exam Overview
• Mod 02: Define an Effective End-to-End Software Development Lifecycle
• Mod 03: Define the ALM Process
• Mod 04: Define a Software Iteration
• Mod 05: Define End Value for the Software Iteration
• Mod 06: Develop Customer Value with High Quality
• Mod 07: Integrate Development and Operations

• [02:32] - Plan a release
• [18:56] - Define project-tracking process
• [30:44] - Scope a project

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Introduction and Exam Overview
• Mod 02: Define an Effective End-to-End Software Development Lifecycle
• Mod 03: Define the ALM Process
• Mod 04: Define a Software Iteration
• Mod 05: Define End Value for the Software Iteration
• Mod 06: Develop Customer Value with High Quality
• Mod 07: Integrate Development and Operations

• [01:12] - Role of different ALM processes
• [19:52] - Scrum events
• [36:55] - Define a Scrum/Agile process for a team
• [52:48] - Backlog items not completed in a sprint

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Introduction and Exam Overview
• Mod 02: Define an Effective End-to-End Software Development Lifecycle
• Mod 03: Define the ALM Process
• Mod 04: Define a Software Iteration
• Mod 05: Define End Value for the Software Iteration
• Mod 06: Develop Customer Value with High Quality
• Mod 07: Integrate Development and Operations

• [02:14] - Value of end-to-end ALM
• [11:00] - Benefits of fast feedback
• [20:12] - Strategies to reduce cycle time
• [33:30] - Strategies to improve software quality
• [40:12] - Create a process improvement plan

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Introduction and Exam Overview
• Mod 02: Define an Effective End-to-End Software Development Lifecycle
• Mod 03: Define the ALM Process
• Mod 04: Define a Software Iteration
• Mod 05: Define End Value for the Software Iteration
• Mod 06: Develop Customer Value with High Quality
• Mod 07: Integrate Development and Operations

The recent beta release of Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server, as well as the discounts available for upgrades will have you contemplating whether you will make a case for an upgrade. What will you gain by upgrading and what will it mean to you, to the dev teams, to the infrastructure teams, and to the business stakeholders? What are the pros and cons of making this move and do they make it worthwhile? Make the right decision for your team. Join Ruth Morton, Jonathan Rozenblit, and guests, ObjectSharp partners Dave Lloyd and Barry Gervin for the debate.

Resources

• To see the changes for yourself, download Visual Studio 11 Beta and give it a try.
• Take advantage of current prices and discounts before things change with the next release.
• Watch Adam Gallant's DEV380 – What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta on TechDays Online.

Dave Lloyd
Dave Lloyd is a founding partner of ObjectSharp. He has 25+ years of experience in the IT industry designing and building software solutions for a large number of clients in varying industries. Dave is a seasoned project manager with a great deal of experience implementing process into development teams, from small and large ISV's to in house development teams. Dave has also spent time during his career implementing test solutions for clients. Working with the most current automated test tools and implementing successful test environments. Dave brings to the table 20+ years of teaching experience.

Because of Dave's experience in the many roles of a software development team it's only natural that he would gravitate toward Team Foundation Server and the ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) world. A lot of Dave's assignments involve helping teams with their development process and to better utilize Team Foundation Server to enhance their Software Development Lifecycle. Dave has received the Microsoft MVP award for ALM.

Barry Gervin
Barry Gervin is a founding Partner of ObjectSharp. As a Principal Consultant and Instructor with ObjectSharp, Barry provides technical leadership to his valued clients, staff, and the development community. Over his 17 year career in the IT industry, he has helped many development teams architect and successfully deliver large software projects within tight schedules and budgets that consistently perform for their end users. He currently holds several technical designations including MCSD.NET, MSF Practitioner and MS Certified Trainer. Barry currently serves as a MS Regional Director in Southern Ontario and has received the Microsoft MVP Award for Solutions Architecture for the past 3 years.

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The discussion centers around around concepts discussed in Sam's latest book, Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio: From Concept to Continuous Feedback including, but not limited to:

• Empowering and engaging multidisciplinary self-managing teams
• Overcoming causes of software waste, missed schedules, and poor quality
• Reengineering development to remove overhead: make individuals more productive and empower high-performance teams

Featured Guest: Sam Guckenheimer

Sam has 28 years of experience as an architect, developer, tester, product manager, project manager, and general manager in the software industry in the US and Europe. Currently, Sam is the Group Product Planner for Microsoft Visual Studio. In this capacity, he acts as chief customer advocate, responsible for the end-to-end external design of the next releases of Visual Studio. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Sam was Director of Product Line Strategy at Rational Software Corporation, now the Rational Division of IBM. He holds five patents on software lifecycle tools. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Sam has guest lectured at Florida Tech, MIT, Harvard, and Yale. Sam is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University.

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Resources

• ALM Webcast Series: Microsoft invites you to participate in a five part webcast series designed to help you explore opportunities to minimize development costs within tight timelines while remaining agile throughout software development and test cycles.
• Managing Complexity with Process, People, and Tools: Development teams are constantly challenged to deliver highly secure, quality software in an environment of growing business demand and quick time-to-market. Development managers are taking a more holistic approach to software development to help create an efficient and effective development process.
• Delivering High Quality Software Through Agile: Delivering high quality software is a risky undertaking. Development and Quality Assurance managers are in a tight partnership over the war against software bugs. Software quality issues not only delay the time to market for a solution while increasing costs, but they also delay the subsequent benefits to the business.
• Unify Your ALM Platform: A shared collaboration infrastructure based on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server can help teams break down barriers and deliver value to the customer while leveraging earlier tool investments.
• Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites: See why Microsoft and its application lifecycle management platform are viewed as "Visionary" in this Gartner report.

About AlignIT Manager Tech Talk

The AlignIT Manager Talk is a monthly live streamed video series hosted by Ruth Morton (LinkedIn) and Jonathan Rozenblit (LinkedIn). Each Tech Talk episode airs on the 2nd Thursday of the month from 12:00pm to 12:30pm EST. The show focuses on a range of topics for both infrastructure and development managers and is interactive, taking questions via a live chat and providing answers on air.

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Fancy learning all about a new platform during the summer months? We're giving our MSDN newsletters a holiday feeling with four different topics in a bite-size format.

The second newsletter in our summer edition lets you dive into the new features in Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management.

Your main goal is building quality applications that meet business requirements. ALM is designed to help you manage the entire lifespan of your application within the organization, using a set of proven processes supported by tools that integrate team members and activities.

Discover how we have pre-packaged both process and tooling content in bit-size formats. And of course: enjoy your holiday!

Speaker : Katrien De Graeve

Other interesting Summer Campaigns :

- For IT Professionals : Virtualization, Desktop Deployment

- For Architects : Cloud Power, Windows Azure Platform

- For Independant Software Vendors (ISV) : Leveraging the Cloud, Unlocking your Data 

Session : Application Lifecycle Management End-to-end

Speaker : Pieter Gheysens, Visual Studio & ALM Most
Valuable Professional / TFS Expert at Sparkles

In this first One on One with Visual Studio conversation, we’re joined by two of Canada’s experts on Visual Studio and ALM (application lifecycle management). Etienne Tremblay and Vincent Grondin will be talking to you about how Visual Studio’s extensive integrated tools make you more effective and efficient, allowing you to collaborate better with the rest of your project team. They’ll show you how testing tools like MS Test, IntelliTrace, and Coded UI make it easier for you to test, and test often, while not increasing your workload; about Team Foundation Server’s work item management and it facilitates better communication between you, the testers, project managers, and development managers; Team Foundation Server’s version control, lab management, and team build tools and how they can automate many of the manual tasks that you’re required to do today; and lastly, about Visual Studio Test Professional’s Test Manager and Test Runner so that you can do your part in reducing testing efforts and as a resut, faster time to market.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 13 of 13 - Look Boss, No Hands on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this first One on One with Visual Studio conversation, we’re joined by two of Canada’s experts on Visual Studio and ALM (application lifecycle management). Etienne Tremblay and Vincent Grondin will be talking to you about how Visual Studio’s extensive integrated tools make you more effective and efficient, allowing you to collaborate better with the rest of your project team. They’ll show you how testing tools like MS Test, IntelliTrace, and Coded UI make it easier for you to test, and test often, while not increasing your workload; about Team Foundation Server’s work item management and it facilitates better communication between you, the testers, project managers, and development managers; Team Foundation Server’s version control, lab management, and team build tools and how they can automate many of the manual tasks that you’re required to do today; and lastly, about Visual Studio Test Professional’s Test Manager and Test Runner so that you can do your part in reducing testing efforts and as a resut, faster time to market.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 12 of 13 - Validating UI Automation on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this first One on One with Visual Studio conversation, we’re joined by two of Canada’s experts on Visual Studio and ALM (application lifecycle management). Etienne Tremblay and Vincent Grondin will be talking to you about how Visual Studio’s extensive integrated tools make you more effective and efficient, allowing you to collaborate better with the rest of your project team. They’ll show you how testing tools like MS Test, IntelliTrace, and Coded UI make it easier for you to test, and test often, while not increasing your workload; about Team Foundation Server’s work item management and it facilitates better communication between you, the testers, project managers, and development managers; Team Foundation Server’s version control, lab management, and team build tools and how they can automate many of the manual tasks that you’re required to do today; and lastly, about Visual Studio Test Professional’s Test Manager and Test Runner so that you can do your part in reducing testing efforts and as a resut, faster time to market.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 10 of 13 - Testing in the Lab on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this session of our conversation, Bridging The Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010, Etienne and Vincent introduce us to Lab Management, a new feature of Visual Studio that lets you manage a collection of virtual machines, templates, and virtual environments where you can develop, test, or run your application. Etienne demonstrates how to create a new lab environment and start it in order to test applications.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 9 of 13 - Multi-Environment Testing on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this session of our conversation, Bridging The Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010, Vincent updates the code to fix the production bug. Once fixed, he shows us how he associates the changes with the bug and commits the changes. Etienne then creates and runs a test case to prove that the bug has been resolved. Vincent highlights an important point – the new feature that he added is not in the build that Etienne is testing. Why? Etienne is testing the build from the code in the branch that was created for the production release (Vincent’s feature was not part of the production release). Etienne then merges the release branch with main branch to bring the bug fix in with the new features developed after the production release.  

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 8 of 13 - Let's Get Back On Track on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this session of our conversation, Bridging The Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010, Etienne and Vincent work through a situation that we are all very familiar with – a bug in production code! But how do we deal with defects in code after modifications have been made in support of new features? Branch the code. Etienne and Vincent explore the concept of branching and then show us how to branch code in a project.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 7 of 13 - Stop, We Have a Problem! on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this session of our conversation, Bridging The Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010, Etienne and Vincent show how the developer uses the information gathered by the tester within Visual
Studio to resolve a bug. Vincent explores the test results and shows us the output of the recording taken when Etienne, as a tester, was running his test. Remember the IntelliTrace test setting that was enabled? Vincent looks at the results of that IntelliTrace and debugs the code to find the exact line of code that caused the application to crash. Once he makes the required updates to the code, he checks in the code and associates the code check-in with the bug filed by Etienne in the previous session. Last but not least, he updates the bug status, which lets Etienne know that he has a new bug to test.

Etienne looks up the recommended tests for the particular bug and reruns the test to ensure that the bug is, in fact, fixed. The first time he runs through the test manually. The second time, he uses Test Runner’s action
playback capabilities to have Test Runner run through the test case, enter all the data, and capture the results, all on its own.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 6 of 13 - Bridging the Gap on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this session of our conversation, Bridging The Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010, Etienne and Vincent explore the many different facets of manual testing. First, they introduce us to the different types of tests that can be run with Test Manager and walkthrough creating a test case that runs against the application. Once the test case is designed, Etienne and Vincent show us how to run the test case, record the actions for each step as the test case is being executed, and then explore the results of the test and the information Test Runner captures. All of that information is then used to create a new bug that is then filed for the developers. Etienne also highlights different settings that can be enabled or disabled for each test, including video recording and IntelliTrace.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 5 of 13 - Tester at Work on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this session of our conversation, Bridging The Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010, Etienne and Vincent talk about the differences between white-box and black-box testing of applications. They switch hats and put on their “tester” hats, introducing us to a new addition to Visual Studio – Test Manager.  Etienne demonstrates how to create a new test plan and add test cases to it. But how do you add a test case? Don’t worry, Etienne and Vincent cover that in the next session of our conversation.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 4 of 13 - Adding a Tester to the Team on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this session of our conversation, Bridging The Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010, Etienne and Vincent show us the basics of a Scrum-based backlog and how to connect and migrate a backlog to Team Foundation Server from Excel. They also introduce us to DemoApp and the bug that’s in the code. The bug will be worked on in later sessions of the conversation. During the Q&A session, Etienne also talks about and defines terms used in different methodologies, integration between Team Foundation
Server and Project, and Team Foundation Server’s API.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 3 of 13 - Where's Our Backlog? on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this session of our conversation, Bridging The Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010, Etienne and Vincent talk to us about what is a build, types of builds you can configure in Team Foundation Server, and the advantages of each. They also walkthrough configuring a build, explaining each
of the steps required in enabling automated unit tests, sharing of source and symbol files, and retention of builds. Once the build is done, they show us how to read the progress report and understand the information it displays.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Part 2 of 13 - Automating the Build on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this session, Etienne and Vincent give us a brief introduction to Team Foundation Server, it’s tools, and how it integrates with the tools in your environment that you’re already familiar with such as Visual Studio, Office, and SharePoint. They’ll also show us how migration from an existing Visual SourceSafe repository to Team Foundation Server can be automated so that you don't have to migrate everything by hand.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010: Migrating VSS to TFS on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

In this first session, Etienne and Vincent introduce themselves and set the stage for the rest of the conversation.

For more information, please see Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.

Share your comments and feedback on our Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion. Etienne, Vincent, and I will be monitoring the discussion and will be happy to hear from you.

Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Testers Using Visual Studio 2010 is part of an ongoing conversation, One on One with Visual Studio on the Canadian Solution Developers' Blog.