Agile Transformation of a Product Team
[MP4] [1:05:06] [2011/02/15] General Manager Cameron Skinner has led three Microsoft development teams through agile transformations. Cameron discusses the various challenges that he and his teams encountered during the various…
The Marriage of Exploratory Testing and Agile Development
[MP4] [0:53:51] [2011/02/05] These two approaches have been "dating" each other for years. Jon Bach thinks they were made for each other, so at the Agile 2010 conference, he officially pronounced them…
Requirements Management: A Smooth Transition
[MP4] [0:51:11] [2011/02/05] When Ido Eshed was invited to help build and deploy a Requirements Management (RM) process at a big electronics company, he brought with him his 10 year experience from IBM. But after a short while,…
Values: Exploring the Why Behind What We Do
[MP4] [0:31:26] [2011/02/04] What values does your software process embody? In my experience most team members cannot answer this question or often respond with something more like practices. This is not sufficient because if…
The Future of Collaborative Development
[MP4] [0:57:12] [2011/02/04] Software development field research has shown that shared group awareness, coordination and informal communication are the most common ways for software development teams to inform each other of…
The Agile Consensus
[MP4] [0:58:09] [2011/02/04] As mainstream companies have adopted Agile practices, a consensus has been emerging around both the social and technical practices that yield the highest ROI. There are broadly available examples of…
Managing Change: Scenario-Focused Engineering
[MP4] [0:57:51] [2011/02/03] Drew Fletcher, Director Program Management, Engineering Excellence, Microsoft, provides an overview of how Microsoft is managing change through its scenario-focused engineering practices. Learn more…
ALM Summit 2010 Keynote: Scrum: the 3rd Decade
[MP4] [0:54:41] [2011/02/03] Keynote session of the ALM Summit presented by Ken Schwaber. Ken is the co-developer and owner of Scrum with Jeff Sutherland. Ken has been in the software development profession for over thirty…
Heterogeneous ALM Environments
[MP4] [0:48:24] [2011/02/03] One of the fundamental benefits to ALM methodologies is being able to collaborate and work together. This collaboration needs to happen irrespective of what platform, technology, or language one team…
From Individual to Team to Organization
[MP4] [1:07:20] [2011/02/03]With the 2010 release, the Visual Studio product line has grown from the best individual development environment but as the best team collaboration environment as well. Technical Fellow Brian Harry…
Making Continuous Delivery a Reality
[MP4] [0:55:54] [2011/02/03] Continuous integration is at the hub of most agile teams, but today it only extends to the compilation of source code and running of unit tests. But wouldn’t it be even more compelling if you could…
Successful Software Project Management Styles 
[MP4] [1:05:08] [2011/02/03] Alistair Cockburn once recommended a “methodology per project”. We have found that multiple methodologies frequently coexist in related projects. Stephanie Cuthbertson will share successful…
Extending the ALM Platform
[MP4] [0:30:23] [2011/02/03] Discover how third-party vendors fill the gaps and add value to the Microsoft's ALM platform. Whether you need Outlook integration, Agile planning or release management, there is a solution available…