1. Real World Software Development Management and Solutions Mario Cardinal March 16, 2011

2. Who am I? Software architect who works with the Urban Turtle team

3. Agenda Insights from customers using TFS TFS value proposition for the enterprise Urban Turtle –About Urban Turtle and Pyxis Technologies –Product background and overview Case studies –Demo Cloud development and where things are headed urbanturtle.com

4. Insights from customers using TFS Version control –Isolate developers –Isolate teams Trend 1: Automated build –Continuous integration –Recurrent quality validation Trend 2: Agile project management –Requirements –Bugs urbanturtle.com

5. TFS value proposition for the enterprise Integration –Traceability between source, build and work items –Single source of truth –Reporting Multiple clients –Visual Studio, Eclipse, MS Office, Web Interoperability –.NET, Java, SQL, HTML, PHP, Ruby,… urbanturtle.com

6. About Urban Turtle and Pyxis Technologies Urban Turtle is the premier Scrum tool for TFS It is developed by Pyxis Technologies, it’s: –10 years of Agility –50 coaching mandates –1,500 certified Scrum Masters Urban Turtle’s Scrum team delivered 10 releases in 10 months urbanturtle.com

7. Product Backlog Sprint Backlog Sprint Daily Scrum Sprint Review & Retro Sprint Planning Burndown Chart Working Software Scrum Master Product Owner Team Member Scrum

8. Product background and overview Seamlessly integrates with TFS Web Access –Planning board –Task board Works with any TFS template –Visual Studio Scrum v1 –MSF Agile v5 –Scrum for Team System v3 –Add your own custom process template ‘Before/after’ demo urbanturtle.com

9. Case study Context –Experienced team –Agile project management Scrum Issues –Remote customer –Distributed team in two locations Paris and Grenoble urbanturtle.com

10. Product Backlog Sprint Backlog Sprint Daily Scrum Sprint Review & Retro Sprint Planning Burndown Chart Working Software Scrum Master Product Owner Team Member Scrum

11. User Story role As a, goal I want benefit so that Product Backlog Goals

12. Priority Grooming the backlog 5 3 8 3 Product Backlog 1 8 5

13. 2 2 8 Sprint Backlog 5 8 2 1 8 5 Sprint planning―part 1 5

14. 8 1 5 2 Product Backlog Sprint Backlog 5 8 2 Sprint planning―part 2

15. 8 1 5 2 Product Backlog Sprint Backlog 5 8 TOO BIG! Sprint planning―part 2 5 TOO BIG!

16. 2 2 5 8 1 5 Product Backlog Sprint Backlog 5 8 COMM IT! 2 Sprint planning―part 2 COMMIT! 2

17. Backlog grooming Planning the sprint

18. Case study Benefits –Good communication and collaboration with the client –Team performance unaffected urbanturtle.com

19. Case study Context –Team begins with Agile practices Scrum Issues –Time to market is important Start small and grow –Align the team with Agile practices Visual management –Comfort managers Information radiator urbanturtle.com

20. Product Backlog Sprint Backlog Sprint Sprint Revie w & Retro Sprint Planning Burndown Chart Working Software To Do In Progress Done Task Board Scrum Master Product Owner Team Member Daily Scrum Scrum

21. Product Backlog Sprint Backlog The sprint To Do

22. Product Backlog Sprint Backlog The sprint To Do In Progress Done To Do In Progress Done

23. Product Backlog Sprint Backlog The sprint To Do Done In Progress To Do In Progress Done

24. Product Backlog Sprint Backlog The sprint Done To Do In Progress Done

25. Tracking day-to-day tasks

26. Case study Benefits –Reduce time to market –Ensure team performance urbanturtle.com

27. Case study ― Premium photo album Context –Experienced team –Agile project management Scrum –Silverlight technology Issues –Team is new with Silverlight –Need to verify, repeatedly, and at any time Software under construction meets the Silverlight specifications Benefits –Automated scenario’s testing urbanturtle.com

28. Cloud development and where things are headed Resistance is futile Economy of scale –Email (Exchange) –Productivity (Office 365) –Software development The next TFS will be available as a cloud service Today –TFS and Urban Turtle are available as hosted solutions DiscountASP.NET (discountasp.net)discountasp.net PRAKTIK Hosting (praktikhosting.com)praktikhosting.com SaaS Made Easy (saasmadeeasy.com)saasmadeeasy.com urbanturtle.com

29. Cloud development and where things are headed Lean infrastructure technology –Core business –Team insourcing Lean software development –Scrum urbanturtle.com

30. Networking breakfast (in French) Challenges and issues of implementing Agility March 22 nd Koko Restaurant at the OPUS Montréal hotel pyxis-tech.com/dejeuner Networking breakfast (in French) Challenges and issues of implementing Agility March 22 nd Koko Restaurant at the OPUS Montréal hotel pyxis-tech.com/dejeuner

31. Do not hesitate to contact me: mcardinal@urbanturtle.com