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Module 1: Introducing Application Lifecycle Management

This document introduces application lifecycle management (ALM) and how Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) supports an ALM approach. It discusses the business case for ALM, key ALM practices and roles, and how VSTS enables process enactment, traceability between artifacts, and visibility into development metrics and software quality through reporting. The document demonstrates VSTS process templates and provides customer examples of return on investment from adopting an ALM approach supported by VSTS.

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Module 1: Introducing Application Lifecycle Management

This document introduces application lifecycle management (ALM) and how Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) supports an ALM approach. It discusses the business case for ALM, key ALM practices and roles, and how VSTS enables process enactment, traceability between artifacts, and visibility into development metrics and software quality through reporting. The document demonstrates VSTS process templates and provides customer examples of return on investment from adopting an ALM approach supported by VSTS.

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Module 1: Introducing Application Lifecycle Management

Overview
The Business Case for ALM What is ALM?

Supporting ALM with Visual Studio Team System

Lesson 1: The Business Case for ALM


Software Development The Last Ten Years Key Business Issues

Software Development - The Last Ten Years

Are we getting better?


Cost overruns down over 100%
200% 150% 100% 50% 0%
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004
Percent Overrun
Source: Standish Group, 2004 Third Quarter Research Report, CHAOS Research Results

Good news!
It now costs less to fail

Key Business Issues


Architecture and Design Application Delivery Management Quality Assurance and Test

User Experience Aligning IT with the Business Maintaining Legacy Systems Managing Complexity Requirements Management

Deployment and Operations Project Management

Balancing Business Demands with Project Risk


Unpredictable Delivery Times and Quality

Managing Fixed or diminishing Budgets Software Coding Quality Ineffective Team Communication Software Configuration Management

Lack of Visibility Into Project Status

Data Management

Lesson 2: What is ALM?


What is ALM? ALM Practices

The Business Benefits of ALM


ALM Roles and Responsibilities A Process for Introducing ALM

Discussion: Moving Towards ALM

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 development artifacts used or produced by these activities Reporting on progress of the development effort as a whole

What is ALM?

What is ALM?

ALM Practices

Program Management Governance Standards Compliance

SLA Deployment Disaster Recovery

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

ALM Roles and Responsibilities


Requirements Management QoS Management Requirements Analysis Architecture Modeling Analysis and Design Design for Deployment

Project Planning Task Assignment Bug Tracking

Project Managers Development Executives

Business Analysts

Architects

Portfolio Management Project Organization Stakeholder Communication

UI Designers

Customer Support Infrastructure Architecture Infrastructure Deployment

UI Design UI Prototyping UI Flow Modeling

Operations
DBAs

Database Design Database Source Control Database Test Data Gen

Test Case Management Manual Testing Load Testing Automated Testing

Testers

Developers

Code Analysis Unit Testing Version Control

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

Discussion: Moving Towards ALM


What are your organizations key strengths and weaknesses with regard to software development 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 ensure consistency? How well defined are your team roles and development practices? What tools do you use to manage the s/w development process?

Lesson 3: Supporting ALM with VSTS


ALM and VSTS The VSTS/TFS Landscape Supporting ALM with VSTS Traceability with VSTS Process Enactment with VSTS What 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

ALM and VSTS

Program Management Governance Standards Compliance

SLA Deployment Disaster Recovery

The Visual Studio Team System / Team Foundation Server Landscape

Supporting ALM with VSTS

Traceability with VSTS


Author requirements

Assign and manage work items

Report project status Continuous integration of work items

Process Enactment with VSTS


VSTS supports process enactment by using process templates and tooling
Supplied process templates Process Enactment in VSTS
Work items get created

Document templates and reports are customized


Security groups and permissions are configured

What About My Processes?


Build or customize your own process template Use process templates available from Microsoft partners
Partner
Avanade Cognizant

Process/ Tools
SLP using VSTS FDD for VSTS

Link
http://avanade.com/_uploaded/pdf/avanadeslp whitepaper262852.pdf http://www.cognizant.com/html/content/microso ft/techfddvsts.asp

Conchango
Fujitsu Ivar Jacobson Consulting Object Consulting Osellus

Scrum for Team System


Macroscope for Team System Essential UP for Team System Process MeNtOR TeamGuide IRIS Process Author/ Content Bridge for VSTS

http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/consulting/m ethod/macroscope/index_p2.html http://www.ivarjacobson.com http://www.processmentor.com/TeamGuide/Def ault.aspx http://www.osellus.com/products/

Visibility with VSTS


Use Your Reporting Tools
Real-time data is stored in TFS Analyze and generate reports using the tools you already use -- Excel, Project, SharePoint, Visio Store reports in TFS and link reports to work items

Reports About Productivity

How much unplanned work has been added?

How productive is the team?

Reports About Development Practices

How much development work had to be redone?

How much development work has been completed?

Reports About the Quality of the Software

What is the quality of the software?

How productive is Testing?

Demonstration: VSTS Process Templates

Return on Investment Customer Evidence

Module Review
ALM can deliver a number of key business benefits Increased ROI, increased accountability, improved compliance and increased responsiveness to business needs ALM relies on integrated toolsets that support and unite lifecycle activities including: Requirements management, Design / modeling, Development, Testing, Configuration Management VSTS supports ALM through integrated tooling that provides Process enactment, work item tracking, detailed reporting and much more

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