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Effective ALM through VSTS. Presentation given to Microsoft Executive Round Table in Pune

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EffectiveApplication Lifecycle Management

[email protected]

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…the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management

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Better quality

Better customer satisfaction

Compliance

Business-IT alignment

Lower costs

Better predictability

Faster time-to-market

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They don’t need this fancy stuff! They just talk to each other!

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Then why do we need it?

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Let’s Dig Deeper

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Mayur, Chief Architect

I need “Class Design, Database Schemas, Deployment Constraints…

…there’s just so much I needed to document and share with the team!”

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Namita, Project Lead

“Mayur also gave a good work breakdown to me to start off with!

The real challenge was making sure we stay on track with the schedules…”

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Rakesh, Senior Developer

“Namita always asked me to ensure we didn’t have any broken builds!

I needed to set up a good release management process in place”

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Harsha, Member of the Review Board

“Code quality and adherence to best practices were very critical to me!”

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Swati, QA Lead

“I wanted to make sure we produced a high quality product. I needed to ensure good test coverage, effective unit testing and smart bug tracking”

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Prajakta,Domain Expert

“I was working on requirements analysis, and I needed to share my findings with the rest of the team!”

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Amruta and Mahavir, Developers

“We were all geared up for action… but with all the instructions to follow, and status updates to give, would we ever get down to work?”

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Rahul, Project Manager

I need “How are we doing with respect to the schedule? Are we fixing the right bugs with the right priority? Is the design document updated? What are our productivity numbers?....

For me, it was all about reports. Hundreds of them!”

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Rose, Clearquest, SVN, Clearcase, Sharepoint, Outlook, Bugzilla, Excel, Project, Visio, Test Complete, Silk, QTP…

But these tools didn’t talk to each other…

…it was still a lot of manual work!

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Even stand-up meetings were expensive!

Rs 9,60,000 per year!for 4 persons, one hour a day

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Visual Studio Team SystemBringing it all together….

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“Won’t work for me…”

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Customize. Customize. Customize.

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Minutes, Milestones, Review Records, Bugs, Audit Records, Appraisals – they are all work items in a common database

Complete traceability and cross referencing across the entire project life cycle

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Code Review Check list

Make sure reviewers know the guidelines!

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All the reports you want, when you want them – scheduled or on demand. Say bye to all that last minute data gathering before the meeting!

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We all love Agile!

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Your Project Portal – start collaborating from day one

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Integrate with 3rd party systems and tools – we know you need to, and we’ve done it before!

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VSTS at Persistent

Over 1000 users, over 100 teams

Project teams working out of half a dozen locations, seamlessly

Standardized project portals and metrics

Integration with MIS systems

Consulting for partners and customers on VSTS adoption and customization

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THE ALM Mantra

Thou shall automate

Thou shall integrate

Thou shall consolidate

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Why ALM investments fail…

Tools are overly complicated or too simple

Tools that adapt your process, not to it!

Inability to integrate

Lack of internal training

Lack of buy-in!

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ALM Nirvana

www.persistentsys.com