ALM Summit and new Visual Studio content

Only 10 days to ALM Summit - events on how to manage the life cycle of applications, from design to operation. Summit participants will be among the first in Russia to learn about the new products of Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 and also be able to communicate with recognized experts in the field of project management. If you do not have time to register, it does not matter, the event will be broadcast on the Internet.


The program of the event covers both practical and theoretical aspects of ALM, and a special guest from Redmond will address you:

Karthik Ravindran

Senior director alm
Microsoft Corp
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Having more than fifteen years of experience in the IT industry, 13 of them he works at Microsoft in various positions. He currently holds the position of Director of Development in the Developer Division and directly affects which solutions will be implemented in Microsoft products in the context of ALM.

Within the framework of the conference, Kartik will give two presentations in the plenary and main sessions:

ALM Solution Templates

ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is currently a very “noisy” abbreviation - ask 10 people about it and you will surely get 10 different perspectives revolving around a variety of business and technological concepts with different intersections. What really is the essence of ALM? Why do we even have to worry about ALM from a technological or business point of view? The purpose of our plenary session is to help you synthesize and clearly present a complete picture of ALM using decision patterns, why and what from ALM helps organizations and teams create value for business.

Flexibility without mysticism - Applied experience of agile development teams.

Edzhile, flexibility, lean, velocity, SCRUM, Kanban ... a list of trends and practices that have recently received increased attention in the industry and allow you to improve, accelerate, save ... and this list of trends is still growing. Sound debates and discussions about these trends / practices are also common in the community. Despite the fact that these trends and practices in almost every case have advantages and disadvantages ... to be flexible and to use flexible approaches in their essence, methodologically holistically, using technological means ... is still not so simple. Come to find out how the view on flexible practices from the IT engineering and service group at Microsoft has been transformed, what experience was learned, how it was achieved, and the journey made it possible to make the team not only flexible in terms, but also in essence and technology.

For those who already want to get more information in Russian on Visual Studio 11 beta and Team Foundation Server 11 beta, the MSDN team has prepared the page:.

On it you will find current articles and materials on the subject of ALM:

• Exercise: Flexible Project Management in Team Foundation Server 11
• Team Foundation Server 11 Improves Developer Productivity
• Diagnose problems in production using IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 11
• Custom testing and other enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 11
• Unit Testing with Visual Studio 11: MSTest, NUnit, xUnit.net, and Code Clone
• Developing optimal software: creating storyboards and collecting error reports from stakeholders using Visual Studio 11

Also, if you want to learn more about how to manage the life cycle of applications, you can use the Microsoft Virtual Academy resource. We recently published there a training course on the organization of development processes based on TFS2010, which includes 5 modules detailing the nuances of using technology at ALM.