Toronto ALM User Group

I really need to stop ignoring my BLOG, I have lots of stuff to post, however I just keep forgetting to do it. Life gets so busy. Well it’s a new year and I am going to try and post something at least every two weeks. I want to say every week but I can’t see that happening. Smile

 

Since I run the Toronto ALM user group I should at least let people know what is coming up.

In January we had the last Canadian speaking appearance of Colin Bowern when he gave a great presentation sharing his thoughts on this topic: As with many things in software engineering there is rarely an answer that is always right, all the time – except locking your workstation when you walk away from your desk, no excuses there.  In the ALM space we have heavily integrated stacks like Microsoft TFS, Rational Team Concert, CollabNet TeamForge and Atlassian’s toolset, but we also have standalone tools that are focused on being the best at one thing alone. In this session we’ll walk through a particular stack of tools that can be used in .NET shops that have investments in other platforms such as PSAKE, TeamCity, xUnit, SpecFlow, Node and PowerShell. But bigger than this toolset we will compare and contrast the integrated and best-in-class approaches to make sure we understand the tool, the myth and the legends behind each. Bring your experiences and let’s have a rich discussion that will broaden our horizons on what is possible to help teams reduce friction and ship value faster.

Thanks again Colin your presentation was informative and very well received by the group.

In February we have Max Yermakhanov showing us the new Release Management Solution that comes in TFS 2013. This is Microsoft's newest acquisition from Canada’s own InCycle. Are you looking for a way to track your release process and start automating your deployments for repeatable success? Are you wanting to have automation that is the same across development, test, and even production environments? If so, come by and learn about release management tooling in TFS 2013.

Hope to see you at the meeting in February.