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ALM Summit 2011 -
Keynote & Plenary Sessions
Tim Lister, Atlantic Systems Guild
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Project Patterns: From Adrenalin Junkies to Template Zombies
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 have delivered them
in their Jolt Award winning book, Adrenalin Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior, Dorset House, 2008.
We all talk about “best practices” but a tiny minority of organizations actually practice them all. But not to worry, think of “best practices” for human health. We know all about them, but very few of us actually practice them all. Maybe if someone did arduously practice all health practices they would forget to have a life.
Tim has come to believe that project patterns are stronger than best practices. They are the habits, the decision practices, and the corporate culture, the unstated rules, which dominate office life.
The first key is to identify your own organization’s patterns. If they are positive, how can you perpetrate them across all projects? If they are negative, how can you break the habit?
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Jason Zander, Microsoft
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The Microsoft Vision for ALM
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 continuous flow of value to your customers, remove the impediments and create the transparency for ongoing improvement? As a business leader, you need to create a technical culture of continuous feedback and innovation. Jason will tie together many threads of the summit in the Microsoft vision for ALM.
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Scott Guthrie, Microsoft
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Scott Guthrie: Azure Unplugged
Engage with Scott Guthrie in an unscripted, interactive session about developing for Windows Azure.
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Thomas Grant, Forrester Research
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ALM – With Power Comes Great Responsibility
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, delivered and maintained. But as software delivery velocity increases, certain reduces and globalization takes control what of ALM? Has it stepped up? Or is it still a confuse combination of discipline and tools? In this talk Dave West, research director at Forrester Research describes the dirty truth about ALM. He describes what needs to happen to the discipline and tools to enable ALM to be a key transformation component to modern software delivery organizations.
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Mark Russinivoch, Microsoft
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It’s Getting Cloudy
In this presentation Mark will give 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 defines “cloud” and enumerates the several types of clouds. He’ll explain Windows Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) app philosophy, how it differs from that of traditional server apps, and the many benefits those differences provide. Enumerating the characteristics of the cloud design point, specifically related to scalability and availability, he’ll describe the Windows Azure service model, including concepts like update and fault domains. He’ll conclude by discussing the different service update options and detail the recovery steps Windows Azure follows when it detects that a service or a hardware device has failed, and talk about how Windows Azure implements the “devops” model required for development of cloud services.
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Brian Harry, Microsoft
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Lessons from the Cloud
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 of users. Running services at scale requires a different approach to managing release cadence, quality, architecture and customer interaction than traditional IT. As we move more of our conventional systems to the Cloud, and more of our IT becomes hybrid on- and off-premise, these lessons become key.
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