Microsoft ALM Summit November 16-18
I’m finally getting around to sharing my thoughts on the Microsoft ALM Summit last month on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Keith Pleas and his company, Guided Design, did a great job of organizing and running this event. In my opinion this was a “right size” event with a single track across the three days meaning you had the opportunity to attend everything and the venue was great. I also really enjoyed the opportunity to get together with friends and make new acquaintances including conference attendees, presenters, ALM MVP’s, Professional Scrum Developer Trainers, and the Microsoft ALM product team. In addition to each day’s presentations, the evening networking events were great.
Day 1 (November 16th) - Agile Acceleration
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Keynote - Scrum: the 3rd decade - Ken Schwaber
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Featured - The state of ALM: An industry view - David West
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Heterogeneous ALM environments - Jamie Cool
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Keynote - IT for the future - Moving into the cloud - Tony Scott
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Using failure to pave the path for success - John Szurek
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Managing Change
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Scenario-focused engineering - Drew Fletcher
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Chasing agility - Chris Kinsman
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Agile transformation of a Microsoft product team - Cameron Skinner
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Day 2 (November 17th) - Collaborative Development
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Keynote - From individual to team to organization - Brian Harry
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Making Continuous Delivery a Reality from Product Backlog to Virtual Lab - Amit Chopra
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Successful software project management styles - Stephanie Cuthbertson
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Increasing Revenue Opportunities with Automated Development Tools - Karel Deman
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Platform Integration
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Extending the ALM platform - Mario Cardinal
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Synchronizing and migrating ALM environments - Grant Holliday
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Values: Exploring the Why Behind What We Do - Jim Newkirk
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The future of collaborative development - Mary Czerwinski
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Day 3 (November 18th) - Engaging the Whole Team
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Keynote - The agile consensus - Sam Guckenheimer
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Requirements Management: a smooth transition - Ido Eshed
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Testing in an agile world - Vinod Malhotra
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How are they different, really? - Eric Willeke
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Professional Practices
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The Marriage of Exploratory Testing & Agile Development - Jon Bach
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Professional scrum developer practices - David Starr
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Connecting Developer Workflow: Mylyn and the Task-Focused Interface - David Green
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ALM Summit Panel Discussion - Schwaber, Starr, Guckenheimer, Provost, Willeke
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Closing remarks
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The next ALM Summit will take place the week of November 14-18, 2011 in Redmond.