A glimpse at the future of Visual Studio ALM

notsotrivial.net - Highlights from the ALM Summit

“Just back from the ALM Summit in Redmond and wanted to share some of my takeaways. This was a small conference driven by the Visual Studio team and sponsored by a select group of vendors that sell products in the ALM space. There were approximately 250 attendees, mostly enterprise customers and partners serving in PM and Architect roles.

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Key Messages

Here are the key messages and themes I heard throughout the three day conference:

Lean Thinking. …

Betting Big on Agile and more specifically the Scrum methodology. …

Autonomous cross-discipline teams work. …

Commodity Cloud. …

Visual Studio ALM road map. …

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An cool view into the recent ALM summit.

The very [very very very] tentative VS ALM roadmap was interesting. If I had my druthers, I think I’d swap a couple of the vNext and vFuture items, specifically I’d like to see Ops Integration and Release Management in vFuture swapped with ALM in the Cloud in vNext (but given the TFS on Azure announcement/demo made at PDC10, it seems ALM in the Cloud is mostly a done deal…). But that’s just me…. LOL :p