There is a new “movement” popping up called DevOps. It is about the automation of development best practices as well as the automation of the deployment pipeline. Answer this question, “How long does it take your organization or team to push 1 line code of change into production?” That’s what this session is all about. See what LinkedIn is doing… a company who is pushing production releases multiple times a day. Their approach may not be best for you, but we can learn from it. This session will look at all aspects of automating the delivery pipeline with a focus on “Continuous Delivery”, a term coined in the Agile Manifesto.

Level: 100

Speaker: Ken Sipe

Topics: Project Management

What’s SCRUM and what’s in it? This session will answer these questions. This session provides an overview of SCRUM framework and the constructs of SCRUM framework - Scrum Teams, Time-Boxes, Artifacts, and Rules.

Level: 100

Speaker: Jaikrishnan Pandurangan

Topics: Project Management

We have all sat down in a scrum or lean session at one of these conferences and walked away frustrated because the image of agile utopia that is presented just won’t fit in our current business. We either don’t have the span of control we need or pieces just don’t make sense for us. This session will fill in the gaps. In this session we will discuss all aspects of the agile or lean methodologies and how we can implement them in our areas. Come with questions, thoughts, and ideas, but leave your biases at the door.

Level: 100

Speaker: Jonathan Mills

Topics: Project Management

This session provides 4 steps to achieving On Time Quality. 1. Identifying SW Requirements and Technology Risk. 2. Developing a Project Strategy and Roadmap. 3. Simple techniques for tracking and reporting progress. 4. Ensure quality handoffs anad deliverables. The techniques show how to deal with unexpected events so prevalent in today's development environment.

Level: 200

Speaker: Don Borcherding

Topics: Project Management

Instead of having to worry about the plumbing, Office 365 gives IT the power to focus on the business, and the ability to scale up or down resource capacities based upon business demands. With a pay-just-for-what-you-use business model, IT won’t be wasting money on providing services you once thought you might need but never got around to using.  This session introduces you Office 365, Microsoft’s subscription-based online suite of it’s world-class business productivity suite: Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, Lync 2010, and Microsoft Office Professional Plus.

Level: 100

Speaker: Kevin Remde

Topics: Azure & Cloud, Project Management

How is the team progressing through requirements or user stories? For each of the requirements or user stories, how are we progressing through tasks? Are we fixing bugs? What is the quality of our bug fixes? Are our tests getting enough coverage? What is the quality of our builds? Do we need to reposition resources? Smart IT project decisions hinge on dependable metrics. Quantitative metrics are only possible with process guidance and systems which support governance of such processes. Integrate the development features of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010, the BI and Reporting power of SQL Server, and the collaborative components of SharePoint to gain visibility into your IT projects.

Level: 100

Speaker: Michael Querimit

Topics: Project Management, Visual Studio

Scrum and XP have found a strong following in the development community. But most non-development groups (such as Web Administrators, Production Support, Security, Testing, and Users/Stakeholders) inside the enterprise are not only far from agile, they are not trying to move to be more agile. I start with a refresher on Scrum, and then use real experiences from large enterprise development projects to teach you how to effectively work with non-agile teams.  Instead of trying to "convert" them, I discuss strategies to adapt to their needs while remaining agile in the development realm.

Level: 100

Speaker: Philip Japikse

Topics: Development Practices, Project Management