Microsoft ALM Summit
The ALM Summit is again coming up soon and again will be held on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Keith Pleas and his company, Guided Design, do a great job of organizing and running this event. This year there will be two tracks: ALM Leadership and Agile Developer. The main conference is November 15 – 17 with Pre-Conference sessions on Monday November 14 and Post Conference sessions on Friday November 18.
I’ll be working with Richard Hundhausen on Accentient’s Pre Conference all-day workshop Implementing Scrum. The workshop is all about managing the implementation of Scrum. Whether you are new to Scrum and want to learn how to get started, are doing Scrum but need to sharpen your focus and deal with some ScrumButs, or just need to integrate Scrum with your ALM tools then this workshop is for you. We’ll be taking a pragmatic Scrum practitioner’s perspective. You’ll have plenty of time for questions and discussion with your hosts and peers.
Here’s what the ALM Summit schedule looks like:
Day 1 (November 14th) - Pre-conference Workshops
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8:30 AM
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12:00 PM
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Workshop starts
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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(lunch)
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1:00 PM
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5:00 PM
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Workshop continues
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Day 2 (November 15th) - Best Practices
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8:30 AM
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9:30 AM
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Keynote - Dave West
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9:30 AM
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9:45 AM
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(break)
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9:45 AM
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10:45 AM
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Track A: Continuous Feedback - Siddharth Bhatia
Track B: Stages of Practice - Arlo Belshee
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10:45 AM
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11:00 AM
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(break)
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11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Track A: Agile User Experience - Miki Konno
Track B: Sharing Data - Ward Cunningham
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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(lunch)
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1:00 PM
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1:45 PM
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Plenary Session - Brian Harry
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1:45 PM
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2:00 PM
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(break)
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2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Track A: ALM in the Jungle - Mik Kersten
Track B: Lessons and Patterns for Test Driven Development - Scott Densmore
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3:00 PM
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3:15 PM
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(break)
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3:15 PM
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4:15 PM
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Open Space
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4:15 PM
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4:30 PM
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(break)
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4:30 PM
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5:30 PM
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Track A: Vendor Panel - Dave West, Moderator
Track B: Being Agile across Technology Borders - Martin Woodward
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5:30 PM
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6:00 PM
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(transportation)
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6:00 PM
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8:30 PM
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- Opening Social Reception at Parlor Billiards
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Day 3 (November 16th) - People and Culture
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8:30 AM
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9:30 AM
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Keynote - Tim Lister
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9:30 AM
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9:45 AM
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(break)
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9:45 AM
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10:45 AM
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Track A: User Panel - Sam Guckenheimer, Moderator
Track B: Agile Development - Peter Provost
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10:45 AM
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11:00 AM
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(break)
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11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Track A: The Process Improvement Backlog - Claude Remillard
Track B: Managing the Agile Process - Aaron Bjork
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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(lunch)
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1:00 PM
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1:45 PM
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Plenary Session - Scott Guthrie
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1:45 PM
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2:00 PM
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(break)
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2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Track A: Scrum or Kanban? - Steven Borg
Track B: When Team Culture and Company Culture Does Not Mix - Mitch Lacey
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3:00 PM
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3:15 PM
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(break)
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3:15 PM
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4:15 PM
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Open Space
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4:15 PM
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4:30 PM
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(break)
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4:30 PM
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5:30 PM
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Track A: Redefining ALM - Cyndi Mitchell
Track B: Panel: Source Control Strategies - Jim Newkirk, William Bartholomew, et al
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5:30 PM
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8:00 PM
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- Technical Reception
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Day 4 (November 17th) - Technologies and their Impact
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8:30 AM
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9:30 AM
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Keynote - Jason Zander
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9:30 AM
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9:45 AM
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(break)
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9:45 AM
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10:45 AM
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Track A: ALM in the Cloud - Doug Neumann
Track B: Best of //build/ - Chris Sells
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10:45 AM
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11:00 AM
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(break)
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11:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Track A: Exploratory Testing - Anu Bharadwaj
Track B: Agile Acceptance Testing - Rod Claar
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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(lunch)
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1:00 PM
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1:45 PM
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Plenary Session - Mark Russinovich
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1:45 PM
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2:00 PM
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(break)
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2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Track A: DevOps: Lessons Learned Running Microsoft Services - Chris Hanaoka
Track B: Code Bubbles - Andrew Bragdon
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3:00 PM
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3:15 PM
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(break)
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3:15 PM
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4:15 PM
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Special Event: WIKISPEED
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4:15 PM
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4:30 PM
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(break)
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4:30 PM
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5:30 PM
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Track A: Architectural Renewal - Cameron Skinner
Track B: Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble
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5:30 PM
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Closing Remarks
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Day 5 (November 18th) - Post-conference Workshops
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8:30 AM
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12:00 PM
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Workshop starts
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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(lunch)
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1:00 PM
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5:00 PM
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Workshop continues
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Hope you can make it to the ALM Summit and please consider our Implementing Scrum PreCon session.
