Businesses rely on getting valuable new software into the hands of users as fast as possible, while making sure that they keep their production environments stable. Continuous Delivery is a…

Doug Neumann will share a first look at Visual Studio Team Foundation Service Preview. Visual Studio Team Foundation Service Preview is the next generation in application lifecycle management, agile…

In this presentation, Mark gives an overview of Microsoft's cloud operating system and explain how Microsoft views the cloud computing shift to be as significant as the PC revolution. First, Mark…

In this overview, Richard Hundhausen and Mike Vincent provide a quick guide to implementing Scrum using Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 to plan and track software development.

WIKISPEED is a real life scenario on the use of Agile and Scrum principles to build an environmentally friendly car that runs over 100 miles per gallon. Everything from creating collaborative work…

Scrum teams strive to create an atmosphere where people can enjoy the process of producing excellent work yet still meet business goals and remain profitable. Getting a team to a level where this is…

Most programs are read more often than they are written. How do you communicate to the next set of eyes how your code is intended to work? Unit tests are not only a great way to flush out design,…

Join Keith as he hosts a panel of opinionated veteran developers Martin Woodward, Arlo Belshee, Jim Newkirk, and William Bartholomew explaining why their strategies are "the best way"!

When Nike announced that it was offering a one-year fellowship to help ignite an open data revolution with the company, Ward Cunningham could not resist the challenge. Nike is committed to…

In this talk we'll look at strategies and practices to help your team maximize flow and minimize waste. We'll examine how to manage and prioritize your backlog, plan iterations of work, and execute…

Customers could not be on every team all the time – so God created testers! (smile) As a customer proxy on the team, a tester is constantly on the lookout to evaluate if the product being shipped has…

We propose a novel user interface that is based on collections of lightweight editable fragments, called bubbles, which when grouped together let developers see many functions side-by-side. We will…

What a customer needs from your company has no respect for the technology you happened to use to help them. They don't care if one part of your infrastructure is built in .NET and the other in Java.…

Agile Developers use a number of techniques to increase their confidence while they code, including test-driven development, aggressive refactoring, and continuous build feedback. In this talk, Peter…

Enterprise software development is tough. The risks encountered by organizations working on software products are complex, changing and often rooted in enterprise culture, domain and business issues.…

By popular demand and touted as one of the most informative, exciting and interactive sessions at last year's ALM Summit, the "User Panel" hosted by Sam Guchenheimer is back! Our goal is to…

Many agile methodologies require dramatic change to an organization during adoption. For instance, Scrum adoption often requires a complete reorganization of the development team, regardless of…

Discover BluePrint, a free TFS Template designed to manage practice improvement projects. In general, development teams are aware of opportunities for improvement but struggle with prioritization,…

In this talk, Chris Hanaoka, GM, Global Foundation Services (GFS) Software Development, will share the Top 10 lessons learned within Microsoft around the inflection from world-class packaged software…

How often have you built software that matched what your customers asked for, only to find out when you're ready to ship that this is not quite what they wanted? Have you ever struggled to understand…

Our existing code bases represent enormous investments that organizations must move forward. But many of these code bases are "big balls of mud"; software entropy, architectural mistakes,…

What is the state of ALM in the industry and has it changed over the last few years? What are the biggest challenges to adopting ALM? What is next? What is the next big thing for ALM? Join Thomas as…

Over the past decade, many ALM stacks have shifted from vertically integrated silos to tangled and disconnected systems reminiscent of the London tube map. Layer upon layer of legacy, piecemeal Agile…

Working in 3-week sprints, the Visual Studio ALM teams had to create practices to quickly ideate, develop and test user experiences within the sprint cadence. Miki will cover how the teams applied…

Over the past ten years, increased global interconnectivity among societies, businesses and individuals has given rise to a lot of complexity. For most people and organizations, the future is more…

Over the past year, we have been redeveloping TFS on Windows Azure, now in public preview. We have also been running a hosted TFS service internally at Microsoft for six years with tens of thousands…

Engage with Scott Guthrie in an unscripted, interactive session about developing for Windows Azure.

As software delivery becomes more important then so does the discipline for supporting it. ALM is that discipline, providing the structure, tools and practices to enable software to be planned,…

Industry trends, new technology and rising customer expectations are all shaping ALM. How do you apply the best modern engineering practices and tools to build applications and services that enable a…

Tim Lister, a Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, along with five of his partners at the Guild, have been compiling project patterns from their combined 150 years of project consulting, and they…