Technical Debt - Why You Should Care
Felipe Rubim discusses several forms of technical debt, emphasizing that every member of the team should consider it, and suggesting taking concrete steps in measuring and reducing it.
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate is the comprehensive suite of application lifecycle management (ALM) tools for teams to ensure quality results, from design to deployment. Whether you're creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate lets you bring your vision to life targeting an increasing number of platforms and technologies—including cloud and parallel computing.
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How ALM Drives Business/IT Alignment, Competitive Advantage Learn how an effective ALM business strategy can be pivotal for improving profitability, and maintaining a competitive edge. Watch this video to learn more. |
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ALM and Business Processes Learn why integrating ALM into business processes is a critical measure for any organization that creates custom software. Watch this video to learn more. |
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ALM Summit 2011: On Demand Videos If you are an ALM manager, lead, or practitioner who is passionate about mastering your craft, you should watch these sessions from the latest summit. |
ALM WHITE PAPERS
Discover the three aspects of ALM—governance, development, and operations—and how each is vital throughout the entire lifecycle of an application.
How ALM Drives Business/IT Alignment, Competitive Advantage
How well a firm executes its business strategies is tied to how good it is at creating new applications. See how ALM solves for this business need. Watch related presentation by Dave Chappell
Business processes are more dependent on software than ever, making the proper development of in-house applications—using ALM techniques—all the more critical. Watch related presentation by Dave Chappell
The old model of software development involved using separate tools. Today, those tools have been combined in powerful ways to optimize the end-to-end development process.
Intro to ALM with Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 offers a rich set of ALM tools that integrates key artifacts and provides full traceability and collaboration throughout the development process.
Visual Studio vNext: ALM features for Agile Planning, Team Collaboration
This white paper provides a glimpse into the future for Visual Studio's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE VISUAL STUDIO ALM BLOG
What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta Unit Testing
This article takes you through the recent changes that have been made to testing in Visual Studio. These changes are pretty drastic in some cases, but were driven by years of customer feedback and a clarification of Microsoft's focus and vision.
Visual Studio 11 Beta - What is new in Coded UI Tests?
With Visual Studio 11 Beta now available you will see a number of enhancements to Coded UI Tests. This blog highlights the top features and points you to the MSDN articles which describe each feature in detail.
Running IntelliTrace on Applications in Production
Visual Studio 11 will include the capability to deploy IntelliTrace as a standalone data collector. It will support applications hosted on Internet Information Services (IIS) versions 7.0 and later. You can also use PowerShell with the collector for IIS-hosted applications. This blog provides a brief demonstration.
What's new for Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio 11 Beta
After the release of Visual studio 2010, Microsoft Test Manager gained a lot of popularity eliciting a lot of feedback. Microsoft consolidated this feedback and decided to fix the top items causing dissatisfaction to the MTM users, the top 3 being performance issues in MTM, multiline support for test steps and test data reduction. This article details these and other improvements in Microsoft Test Manager in the Visual Studio 11 Beta release.
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Enterprise Application Distribution with Windows 8
Distributing the right applications and links to a user’s computer has always been a challenge. Login scripts tend to be fragile and tools that automatically install applications are often difficult to use. The increased use of personally owned computers and devices further complicates the story. Microsoft is attempting to fix both issues with Windows 8 and the Self-Service Portal.
Agile's Next Wave: Transforming the Business
A recent Forrester report gives evidence to the advance of agility into the business world. This article reviews this trend and some of its potential implications.
The Lean Startup Frenzy
Is the Lean Startup movement another fad or a real source of value creation? The implications of the latter are extreme. If Lean Startup is a real way to achieve consistent success in new ventures then Eric Ries may have cracked the code toward persistent venture success and ultimately: wealth creation.
Articles about Business/IT Alignment
Net-Map - A Toolkit to Understand and Visualise Stakeholder Influence
Net-Map is a tool developed by Eva Schiffer that allows you through interviews to visualise and analyse how different people and groups influence a particular situation. It is of interest to Agile teams as it can help you understand who your stakeholders are, how they are connected and the level of influence they have. InfoQ recently caught up with Eva and asked her a few questions.
Social + Lean = Agile
In today’s increasingly dynamic business environment, organizations must continuously adapt to survive. Change management has become a major bottleneck. Organizations’ need a practical mechanism for managing controlled variance and change in-flight to break the logjam. This paper provides a foundation for applying lean and agile principles to achieve Enterprise Agility through social collaboration
Interview and Book Excerpt: CMMI for Services
CMMI for Services(CMMI-SVC)is a process improvement framework developed by the SEI for service providers. InfoQ spoke to Eileen Forrester, co-author of CMMI for Services: Guidelines for Superior Service and manager of CMMI-SVC. In this interview we cover adoption practices for CMMI-SVC and its relationship with CMMI-DEV, ITIL and Agile accompanied by relevant excerpts from the book.
Presentations about Business/IT Alignment
Deriving Agility from SOA and BPM - Ten Things that Separate the Winners from the Losers
In this presentation from SOA Symposium 2010, Manas Deb and Clemens Utschig-Utschig discuss how to derive business agility from SOA and BPM, motivations for agility, developing and nurturing agility, influencers and dependencies, how SOA and BPM enable agility, pitfalls and recommendations for organizational culture, and pitfalls and recommendations for business and technical architectures.
Making the Business Case
We know that solving DevOps problems improves your business operations and improves the bottom line, but how do you do you explain that to your CEO or CFO? How do you get the executives to buy in and invest in DevOps solutions?
Interviews about Business/IT Alignment
Hugh Ivory Reveals the New Face of DSDM
Called "the grandmother" of the agile methodologies, DSDM V1 was released in 1995. The methodology is owned and collaboratively developed by the members of the not-for profit DSDM Consortium, and until V4.2 was only available to members. But the recent V5 or "Atern" release is now publicly available. Director Hugh Ivory provided an overview at Agile2007.
Steve Jones on "Business-driven SOA"
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks to Cap Gemini's Steve Jones about his concept of a business service architecture. Topics covered include how to apply SOA to existing systems, the problems one runs into when SOA is driven by technology, and the structural and organizational impact of business-driven SOA.
Books about Business/IT Alignment
Agile Patterns: The Technical Cluster
This book guides the reader on crafting their own agile adoption strategy focused on their business values and environment. This strategy is then directly tied to patterns of agile practice adoption that describe how many teams have successfully (and unsuccessfully) adopted them. Business values are also a component of these patterns so your adoption is always focused on addressing your particular environment.