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Application Lifecycle management with TFS

By Ahmed Nasr

Mohamed R. Samy

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Agenda

• Application life cycle stories (10 mins)• Application life cycle management

definitions (10 mins)• ALM vs. SDLC (5 mins)• TFS/VSTS and ALM/SDLC (10 mins)• Demo TFS project portal (10 mins)• Why use a tool Vs. Whiteboards and

paper (5 mins) ?

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Agendacontd

• Builds and CI Demo (10 mins)• Q & A (10 mins)

ALM Stories

• CMMi L3 + Traceability

• Project history + estimate accuracy

• What happens when everyone leaves the company? Where does the project go?

ALM Definitions

• Product lifecycle vs. Application lifecycle• ALM is the management of the lifecycle of

the application (Mohamed R. Samy)• ALM helps measure and quantify project

performance metrics (What the H&(* does that mean?)

• ALM is there to help us achieve project governance (What is governance? )

ALM vs. SDLC

• Big words…..• SDLC as a subset of ALM• Managing the software dev. process vs.

the application lifecycle

Demo

• A lap around the project portal.

ALM as an umbrella to all activities

Demo

• Automated builds and CI

Q& A