Event Date:
31st July 2013, Wednesday
Time:
8.30am – 1.00p.m
Venue:
One Marina Boulevard, Microsoft Office, Level 22 Singapore 018989
Target Audience:
Business Decision Makers
For registration & enquiries, please contact Ying a-yilim@microsoft.com or Helen Helen@swap.com.sg
We would like to invite you for this exclusive briefing on Agile Software Developmentand learn some of the best practices of Agile methodology and see how you could leverage the capabilities in Microsoft Visual Studio Solution to automate these practices in your team.The adoption of Agile software development is increasing as organizations are striving to achieve success across their project portfolios. According to a recent survey by Thought Works, most organizations following the Agile methodology experienced significantly faster time-to-market of 68%, with 68% more adaptability to changing requirements from clients and improved IT productivity and quality, which led to a better ROI of 60%, and an increased project visibility of 60%.
Agenda
8.30am – 9.00am
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Registration and Breakfast
9.00am – 9.10am
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Welcome Note
9.10am – 10.10am
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Importance of continuous feedback to Business Decision Makers Involvement of stakeholder throughout the project mitigates one of the most consistent problems on software projects: What they will accept at the end of the project differs from what they told us at the beginning.Getting the right feedback at the right time from the right individuals can determine the success or failure of a project or application.Visual Studio provides Storyboarding, a powerful way for the stakeholders to share their ideas and goals in visual format that development teams can more easily understand and avoid costly reworks.
Speaker: Sachin Raj - APAC Developer Tools Lead
10.10am – 10.30am
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Tea Break
10.30am – 11.30am
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Building a Quality Application through Continuous Integration Continuous Integration is a software development best practice where developers integrate their changes to code more frequently – every time they check their code into the source control server. Teams can include automate tests such as unit test, code analysis, etc. as a part of the build process and define quality gates. Changes that fail to pass the quality gate can be marked as failures. This helps the development teams to shorten the build time, catch and fix errors quickly and improve the quality of software.The effort of implementing continuous integration can be significant depending on the size of your project. Visual Studio ALM with a set of integrated toolsets makes it easy for development team to effectively adopt continuous integration and testing. The toolsets include version control, build, test, deployment to a lab environment, work item tracking, and the data warehousing functionality.
Speaker: Sachin Raj - APAC Developer Tools Lead
11.30am – 12.30pm
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Delivery Right - Dev Ops As An Imperative Process Continuous Delivery extends the idea of continuous integration and testing further to include deployment. This practice aims to solve the gap that often exist between the development and operations team. Development departments are usually driven by user needs for frequent delivery of new features while Operations departments focus more on availability, stability of IT services and IT cost efficiency. These two contradicting goals create a “gap” between the teams which slows down IT’s delivery of business value. Business demand for an increased rate of production releases, faster time to market and the increasing adoption of virtualization and cloud infrastructure are some of the key drivers that makes DevOps an imperative process within the application lifecycle . In today’s world, this integration for delivering continuous value is crucial as it allows a natural way to implement a continuous feedback loop between the development and operations functions.Microsoft Visual Studio ALM and Microsoft System Center deliver an integrated and hybrid IT capable Modern ALM solution with Enterprise DevOps capabilities. Using the Microsoft solution, organizations can implement and realize the value benefits of the Enterprise DevOps practices.
Speaker: Chee Yong Poh - Developer Tools Technical Evangelist
12.30pm – 1.00pm
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Lunch
Speaker Bio: Sachin Raj is a Microsoft Regional Technical Lead for Developer Tools for APAC and drives technical sales initiatives for the Visual Studio ALM solutions. He has more than 10 years of experience across the region in the areas of application lifecycle management, quality management and information security. His responsibilities include working with clients to identify issues and concerns and suggest software delivery best practices. He also conducts technical workshops and speaks at technical conferences across the region.
As a Developers Tool Evangelist, Chee Yong’s main role is to understand the issues in software delivery environment and helps teams to address these pain using Visual Studio ALM solutions. With more than 5 years of experience in doing software development, Chee Yong has experienced all level of issues in a real software delivery environment. And with deep understanding of the Visual Studio ALM solutions, he possesses insights to the value of the solution against the ground issues. To Chee Yong, seeing a team implementing, truly benefiting and noticing values from the ALM solution is the best thing he gets from his job.