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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Agile SharePoint Development: The New Open Application Model
In the past, SharePoint development has been a scary proposition for developers with complex concepts, onerous machine requirements & ad hoc processes for end-to-end development. Times have changed with the release of SharePoint 2013, which introduces a new app model built on open web standards so...
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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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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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Shifting to Agile Requirements in a Continuous Delivery Cadence
How do you take the principles of Agile to heart for requirements? Contrary to some beliefs, Agile does not mean no requirements are documented. In this session, we'll discuss practices that engage customers and your engineering team, set you up to respond to change while keeping leadership in the loop....
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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...
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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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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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What is Value?
The concept of "value" is central to agile and lean software development – but how do we decide what is valuable, and on what basis? I argue that we need to rethink the role of product owner, discarding wasteful activities such as estimation. Determining value is the responsibility of everyone...
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Testing and Agile: The Team Approach
Agile development practices have been growing in popularity and success. And while 'agile' acknowledged that quality is everyone's job, there is still one discipline that is generally ignored: testing. A focus on quality and testing is still important with modern agile development practices. But how...
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Developer Populism
Software is everywhere, running everything. No matter what industry, a business's ability to innovate is increasingly tied with its aptitude to build and release differentiating software.
Software developers, the people responsible for this world changing software, are increasingly becoming empowered,...