Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM

Meet Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence –Specialize in helping organizations adopt lean-agile –Prefer TFS 2012 as my end-to-end ALM tool of choice Background –Microsoft ALM MVP since 2005 –Written Kanban and Scrum courseware –Implemented Kanban and Scrum world-wide –Many years as a Microsoft Certified Trainer

Meet Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM –Specialize in helping organizations adopt TFS –Developed TFS 2010 & 2012 curriculums Background –MCT (since ’96), MCP (since ’93) –Completed 58 Microsoft exams (incl. 001) –Australia’s first Professional Scrum Developer trainer

Course Topics 1.Introduction 2.Exam Overview 3.Define an Effective End-to-End Software Development Lifecycle 4.Define the ALM Process 5.Define a Software Iteration 6.Define End Value for the Software Iteration 7.Develop Customer Value with High Quality 8.Integrate Development and Operations 9.Wrap up

Setting Expectations Target Audience –IT Professionals that help streamline activities across all roles and throughout the entire development life cycle –IT Professionals studying to take to exam Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material –While specific Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) experience is not required, the audience should be proficient with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Visual Studio 2012 and should have worked on a software development team.

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01 | Exam Overview Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence

Certification Overview Exam Summary Skills being measured Module Overview

Microsoft Virtual Academy Certification Overview

Path to MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management More information =

Microsoft Virtual Academy Exam Summary IMPORTANT: Please make sure there’s a section transition slide in the right places—very important for making this a recording…!

Exam details

Audience Profile Candidates for this exam typically use Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 to keep their teams focused on customer value and to structure their organizations to deliver quality software frequently and reliably. These candidates inspect and help streamline activities across all roles and throughout the entire development life cycle.

Audience Profile The qualified candidate typically has: –a strong understanding of current process improvement practices. –a strong understanding of popular software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), as well as umbrella practices such as Agile and Lean. –high-level technical experience with Microsoft tools used to improve software development effectiveness.

Microsoft Virtual Academy Skills Being Measured

Breakdown of key topic areas

Define an Effective End-to-End Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (17%) Understand the value of an end-to-end view of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools and practices Explain the benefits of fast feedback Implement strategies to reduce end-to-end cycle time Implement strategies to improve software quality Implement strategies to reduce waste Create a process improvement plan

Define the ALM Process (16%) Role of different ALM processes Implement a Scrum/Agile process Define a Scrum/Agile process for a team Implement Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) for CMMI Process Improvement

Define a Software Iteration (16%) Plan a release Define project-tracking process Scope a project

Define End Value for the Software Iteration (17%) Elicit requirements Estimate requirements Document requirements Prioritize requirements

Develop Customer Value with High Quality (17%) Define code quality indicators Incorporate unit testing Develop code Validate quality Customize a team project

Integrate Development and Operations (17%) Implement an automated deployment process Implement pre-production environments Manage feedback between development and operations Troubleshoot production issues

Microsoft Virtual Academy Thoughts on Cramming and Tests

Things to Remember The test is meant to validate existing knowledge, not ability to cram for a test Just because it’s on the study guide as a topic doesn’t mean it’s on the test Some things are hard to test fairly. If unambiguous questions can’t be written, they won’t be. We’ll cover some things in this cram session than are not on the test. We’ll not cover some things in this cram session that are on the test.

©2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Office, Azure, System Center, Dynamics and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.