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Module 1: IntroducingApplication Lifecycle

Management


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Overview

The Business Case for ALM

What is ALM?

Supporting ALM with Visual Studio Team System


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Lesson 1: The Business Case for ALM

Software Development The Last Ten Years

Key Business Issues


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Software Development - The Last Ten Years

Source: Standish Group, 2004 Third Quarter Research Report, CHAOS Research Results

Are we getting better?Cost overruns down over 100%200%

150%

100%50%

0%

1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004

Percent Overrun

Good news!

It now costs less to fail


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Key Business Issues

Architecture

and Design

User

Experience

RequirementsManagement

Software

Coding Quality

Software

Configuration

Management

Data

Management

Project

Management

Deployment

and

Operations

Quality

Assurance and

Test

Application

Delivery

Management Aligning IT with

the Business

Maintaining

Legacy Systems

Managing

Complexity

Balancing

Business

Demands with

Project Risk

Managing Fixed

or diminishing

Budgets

UnpredictableDelivery Times

and Quality

Lack of VisibilityInto

Project Status

Ineffective Team

Communication


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Lesson 2: What is ALM?

What is ALM?

ALM Practices

The Business Benefits of ALM

ALM Roles and ResponsibilitiesA Process for Introducing ALM

Discussion: Moving Towards ALM


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What is ALM?

Forrester defines ALM as:

The coordination of development life-cycle activities,including requirements, modeling, development, build,and testing, through

Enforcement of processes that span these activities

Management of relationships between developmentartifacts used or produced by these activities

Reporting on progress of the development effort as awhole


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What is ALM?


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What is ALM?


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ALM Practices

Program Management

Governance

Standards Compliance

SLA

Deployment

Disaster Recovery


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The Business Benefits of ALM

ALM Business Benefits Include

Increased ROI Increased accountability Stricter compliance to governance initiatives Improved project management Quality improvements Shorter development cycles Increased responsiveness to business needs


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ProjectManagers

ALM Roles and Responsibilities

BusinessAnalysts

Architects

UI Designers

DBAs

DevelopersTesters

Operations

DevelopmentExecutives

Requirements Management

QoS Management

Requirements Analysis

Architecture Modeling

Analysis and Design

Design for Deployment

UI Design

UI Prototyping

UI Flow Modeling

Database DesignDatabase Source Control

Database Test Data Gen

Code Analysis

Unit Testing

Version Control

Test Case Management

Manual Testing

Load Testing

Automated Testing

Customer Support

Infrastructure Architecture

Infrastructure Deployment

Portfolio Management

Project Organization

Stakeholder Communication

Project Planning

Task Assignment

Bug Tracking


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A Process for Introducing ALM

Assess your organization and its IT functions

Identify the main problem areas

Prioritize areas for improvement

Adopt an incremental approach to phase in

new practices on a project-by-project

basis


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Discussion: Moving Towards ALM

What are your organizations key strengthsand weaknesses with regard to softwaredevelopment and IT delivery?

What are its main weaknesses?

How effective are your current processes?How well defined are your processes?

How do you enforce process to ensureconsistency?

How well defined are your team roles anddevelopment practices?

What tools do you use to manage the s/wdevelopment process?


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Lesson 3: Supporting ALM with VSTS

ALM and VSTSThe VSTS/TFS Landscape

Supporting ALM with VSTS

Traceability with VSTS

Process Enactment with VSTSWhat About My Processes?

Visibility with VSTS

Reports About Productivity

Reports About Development Practices

Reports About the Quality of the Software

Demonstration: VSTS Process Templates

Return on Investment Customer Evidence


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ALM and VSTS

Program Management

Governance

Standards Compliance

SLA

Deployment

Disaster Recovery

Th Vi l St di T S t / T F d ti


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The Visual Studio Team System / Team FoundationServer Landscape


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Supporting ALM with VSTS


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Traceability with VSTS

Author requirements

Assign and manage work items

Continuousintegration of

work items

Report project status


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Process Enactment with VSTS

VSTS supports process enactment by using processtemplates and tooling

Supplied process templates

Process Enactment in VSTS

Work items get created

Document templatesand reports arecustomized

Security groups andpermissions areconfigured


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What About My Processes?

Build or customize your own process templateUse process templates available from Microsoft partners

Partner Process/ Tools Link

Avanade SLP using VSTS http://avanade.com/_uploaded/pdf/avanadeslp

whitepaper262852.pdfCognizant FDD for VSTS http://www.cognizant.com/html/content/microso

ft/techfddvsts.asp

Conchango Scrum for Team System http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com

Fujitsu Macroscope for Team

System

http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/consulting/m

ethod/macroscope/index_p2.html

Ivar Jacobson

Consulting

Essential UP for Team

System

http://www.ivarjacobson.com

Object

Consulting

Process MeNtOR

TeamGuide

http://www.processmentor.com/TeamGuide/Def

ault.aspx

Osellus IRIS Process Author/

Content Bridge for VSTS

http://www.osellus.com/products/


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Visibility with VSTS

Use Your Reporting ToolsReal-time data is stored inTFS

Analyze and generatereports using the tools youalready use -- Excel,Project, SharePoint, Visio

Store reports in TFS andlink reports to work items


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Reports About Productivity

How much unplanned workhas been added?

How productive is theteam?


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Reports About Development Practices

How much developmentwork has been completed?

How much development

work had to be redone?


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Reports About the Quality of the Software

How productive is Testing?

What is the quality of thesoftware?


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Demonstration: VSTS Process Templates


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Return on Investment Customer Evidence


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Module Review

ALM can deliver a number of key business benefits Increased ROI, increased accountability, improved

compliance and increased responsiveness to businessneeds

ALM relies on integrated toolsets that support and unitelifecycle activities including:

Requirements management, Design / modeling,Development, Testing, Configuration Management

VSTS supports ALM through integrated tooling thatprovides

Process enactment, work item tracking, detailed reportingand much more

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