Implementing TFS: Lessons Learned at Siemens Healthcare
[MP4] [1:03:36] [2013/03/21]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…
Agile for Agnostics
[MP4] [0:13:57] [2013/02/26]Cheryl Hammond, an ALM consultant form Northwest Cadence, provides a readout from the Agile for Agnositcs birds of a feather session at ALM Summit 3. How do you pursue an agile process without being…
Managing a Multiplatform Development Software Factory Using Team Foundation Server
[MP4] [0:12:25] [2013/02/26]Sonda IT is Latin America's 4th biggest IT company. José Freire Neto covers the challenges Sonda IT faced developing software for multiple platforms with a geographically-distributed team, and how…
Making Getting Better Funner
[MP4] [0:11:42] [2013/02/26]Output of a Birds of a Feather session about how to make getting to agile less painful and more fun for an organization. In this session, Justin and Scott show how they made getting to agile more fun…
Testing for Continuous Delivery for Visual Studio 2012
[MP4] [0:14:10] [2013/02/26]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…
Developer Task Switching Without Thrashing
[MP4] [0:13:08] [2013/02/26]Peter and David describe how they manage a "day in the life" of a developer on a small team, using Visual Studio 2012 and TFS: Starting at standup / taskboard My Work and Suspend &…
The Five Dysfunctions of an Agile Contract
[MP4] [0:14:06] [2013/02/26]The traditional approach is to create a project estimate by an architect, which is used to negotiate a contract with the customer. Then a team of people not involved in the original estimate starts…
Distributed Agile Methodology
[MP4] [0:14:49] [2013/02/26]Learn how AAA of Northern California, Nevada and Utah is increasing agility while and also leveraging the global delivery/cost model to be successful. Mark will share his approach, challenges, and…
Agile Economics
[MP4] [0:14:35] [2013/02/26]The software development industry in embracing Agile in a big way. But why? Most certainly it allows a higher rate of success, encourages better collaboration, use of tools and does a better job…
How am I doing? Personal Retropsectives on Developing Ones Craft
[MP4] [0:58:21] [2013/02/16]Start your year right with a focus on your own professional development. Diana Larsen (co-author of: Agile Retrospectives, Liftoff, and Virtuosity) will describe a way to "take stock" with…
Agile Testing
[MP4] [0:50:01] [2013/02/16]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…
Agile Adoption at Finning Canada
[MP4] [1:01:18] [2013/02/16]IT organizations are facing an increased challenge in delivering innovation and value back to the business at an accelerated pace. These conditions are forcing IT organizations to transform and…
Distributed Version Control for the Enterprise
[MP4] [1:01:29] [2013/02/16]Distributed version control systems ("DVCS") like Git and Mercurial may have gotten their start in open source projects. As more closed source corporate and enterprise developers get…
Un-Managing Agile Teams
[MP4] [1:01:42] [2013/02/16]What does success look like to an agile team? Is it a perfect burn down chart and a beautifully run standup? Or something else? In this session we'll go beyond the standard dogma and talk about how…
Developer Populism
[MP4] [0:52:21] [2013/02/16]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…
Testing and Agile: The Team Approach
[MP4] [1:00:51] [2013/02/16]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:…
Faster - Safer - Better: Optimizations in the Cloud
[MP4] [1:09:18] [2013/02/16]Rapid development, strong security, and agile operations. Historically, you could choose any two. Wouldn't it be fantastic to escape this conundrum, and finally take advantage of all three? As a…
What is Value?
[MP4] [0:59:30] [2013/02/16]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…
From 0 to Continuous delivery at Emerging Health
[MP4] [0:58:17] [2013/02/16]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…
Fluid Code in the Real World
[MP4] [1:04:16] [2013/02/16]In the end, you get rated on your software's ability to meet your customers' goals. All the Agile practices wrap around one core, inner loop: writing the software. In this hands-on session, we explore…
Data Driven Decision Making
[MP4] [1:05:01] [2013/02/16]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…
Implementing ATDD and Specification-By-Example
[MP4] [1:01:13] [2013/02/16]Many teams struggle with the discussion of acceptance criteria of user stories and building a shared understanding about the expected outcomes. This leads to unfulfilled implicit expectations of…
Implementing Successful Continuous Deployment Practices for DevOps
[MP4] [0:49:47] [2013/02/16]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…
Testing in the Cloud
[MP4] [0:53:34] [2013/02/15]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…
Deployment Pipeline
[MP4] [0:59:38] [2013/02/15]The deployment pipeline is an automated representation of the process followed to build and deliver software. TFS is flexible enough to hold different workflows for this pipeline, although, out of the…
Agile Under a Waterfall
[MP4] [1:10:02] [2013/02/15]It would be so easy if everyone at our companies just used Scrum -- or at least Agile. No one would lean on the team for dates and deadlines, and everyone would know that change is a good thing. It'd…
Version Control On Your Terms
[MP4] [1:01:12] [2013/02/15]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…
Exception Monitoring
[MP4] [0:56:12] [2013/02/14]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…
Integrating Development and Operations for Last Mile Velocity
[MP4] [0:55:19] [2013/02/14]Getting the right information needed to fix a bug in production is key to reducing the mean time to resolution (MTTR). One aspect of the DevOps movement is targeted squarely on decreasing the friction…
Load Testing a History-Making System
[MP4] [1:02:41] [2013/02/14]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…
Estimating for Software Development, Delivery, and Deadlines
[MP4] [1:04:38] [2013/02/14]Software development is often fundamentally different than the analogies used to describe it. Accordingly, estimating what software will be done and by when can be an exercise in frustration. Yet,…
Agile Contracting in the Second Decade of Agility
[MP4] [1:10:53] [2013/02/14]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…
Practical HTML5
[MP4] [1:02:20] [2013/02/14]Whether you're building a new website or maintaining an existing one, you'll leave this talk ready use HTML5. We'll look at what it offers modern application developers and how you can code rich Web…
Staying in the Groove
[MP4] [1:04:43] [2013/02/14]Getting in the groove, achieving flow, being focused... these are all different ways of talking about that magical place that agile teams strive to find. Getting there is hard, staying there is…
Shifting to Agile Requirements in a Continuous Delivery Cadence
[MP4] [0:49:51] [2013/02/14]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…
Continuous Deployment: The Dirty Details
[MP4] [0:58:27] [2013/02/14]Continuous Delivery changes the fundamental processes involved with building software and launching new features. This talk will focus on the impact of Continuous Delivery on software release cycles,…
Technical Interviewing - You're Doing it Wrong!
[MP4] [0:52:56] [2013/02/14]How do you know if you are good at technical interviewing? The feedback loop for interviewers is too long and incomplete to allow people to see their mistakes and improve themselves, instead just…
Agile SharePoint Development: The New Open Application Model
[MP4] [0:53:09] [2013/02/14]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…
Agile 2.0: Software Development in the Era of the Open Graph
[MP4] [1:02:02] [2013/02/12]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…
Lean Startups, Demystified
[MP4] [0:50:10] [2013/02/12]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.
Being Agile. Scaling Up. Staying Lean
[MP4] [1:02:13] [2013/02/11]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.…
A New Era of Computing
[MP4] [1:00:28] [2013/02/11]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…
Reimagining the Application Lifecycle
[MP4] [0:48:17] [2013/02/06]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…
Continuous Services and Connected Devices
[MP4] [0:57:53] [2013/02/05]Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President, Windows Azure on building modern business applications connected to continuous services on Windows Azure.
Building an Engineering Organization for Continuous Delivery
[MP4] [1:11:31] [2013/02/05]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…