How to Maximise ROI and drive IT Governance with Visual Studio Team System

The Power of an Integrated ALM Solution

Julio Fernández-GayosoSales manager for Development Tools Western European Microsoft HQ

• Running Windows 7 build 7000

Reykjavik, January 19th 2008

The ALM market trends

Microsoft vs. the Java World A decade of competition

JavaMicrosoft

Java, Java VMWindows DNA

1999 J2EE 1.0

2002 .NET Framework 1.0

2005 .NET Framework 2.0

2006 .NET Framework 3.0

2007 .NET Framework 3.5

Java EE 5 Spring

SCA…

2003 J2EE 1.4

1996

Source: From David Chappell Application Platform session at tech-ed EMEA Barcelona Nov 2008

ALM Market Growth

Manage complexity - remote dev locations

- Windows mobile

- SOAImproved ROI &IT Governance

Execute operational

changes rapidly and flexibly

Increase Resource

Utilization

Reduce IT Cost

Improved

TCO

Increase Productivity- Role productivity

- Learning Curve

- Team Productivity and

efficiency

Application Quality & Functionality- SLA, 24x7

- Code Quality

- Time to Market

30% IT

70%People cost

Customers Business & IT Challenges

Organizations are seeing ROI as high as 225% on infrastructure improvement projects

• Reduced the time developers spent locating, retrieving and managing source code

• Minimized both software and training costs by deploying one solution across its global footprint

• Consolidated servers in order to reduce hardware, administration and maintenance costs

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Development Tools & Applications

Tools Applications

Business Analyst

Operations, QA and Help Desk

Third-Party IDEs

Web Clients and XML Web Services

Visual Studio Team System

Collaborate and Communicate

• Team Foundation Server

– A unified project server

• Work item tracking throughout the lifecycle

– Efficient management of tasks

– Flexible and customizable

– Enables trazability

Drive Predictability

• Integrated process templates & Real time Reporting help deliver predictable results

– MSF for Agile Teams

– MSF for CMMI Process Improvement

– Fully customizable

– Real time Reports

Ensure Quality Early & Often

• Quality-centric toolset

– focus on Software quality vs just testing

– Integrated throughout lifecycle

– Reduces overall project cost

Integrate Work Frequently

• Full featured version control system

– Continuous Integration

– Scheduled Builds

– Relate work item to check-in

– Check-out on Edit

– Labeling

Make Real-time Decisions

• Comprehensive business intelligence reporting system

– Real-time data

– Project Transparency, Visibility & Predictability

– Enabling critical decision making

Our Framework

Project Server

“IT Governance”CIO: Aligning IT with Business Priorities

Decision Making Framework

“Connected IT Data”Metrics, Change Management, Workflow, Issue Tracking, Policies,

Resource Pools and Schedules

BusinessProcess

Management

EnterpriseArchitecture

Team Foundation Service Desk

KPI’sAvailability

QualityCapacity

“Portfolio Management”Project Management Office (PMO):

Maximize IT execution and compliance

Development Lifecycle

Operations Lifecycle

The VSTS -ALM value Prop:..our evolution …

From Developer ..

to Development

to .. Real-time Reporting & project management

to .. IT governance

Information Technology GovernanceFrom Wikipedia

“Information Technology Governance, IT Governance or ICT Governance, is a subset discipline of Corporate Governance focused on information technology (IT) systems and their performance and risk management. The rising interest in IT governance is partly due to compliance initiatives (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley (USA) and Basel II (Europe), as well as the acknowledgement that IT projects can easily get out of control and profoundly affect the performance of an organization.”

Some Key drivers: Regulatory Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II & Other Industry Regulations such as

healthcare, defense etc..

Project Governance: Real Time reporting, Project transparency & Visibility, predictability ..

Intellectual Property Management: Scenarios such as outsourcing, Off-shoring, Near-shoring, Value-Shoring. Data Privacy, Applications..

Running IT as a business – the IT value chain – business-Develop &Test-Run-Business:Aligning IT with the Business requirements Link development with production via requirements process & Helpdesk to testing/dev integration

Compliance and Auditing

Real-time Reports

Metrics & Real-Time Reporting Enable Transparency

How Effective Is Our (Outsourced) Team?

Test rates(pass, inconclusive, fail) shown in bars

Against code coverage, …

code churn, …

and active bugs

How Far Can We Get In The Available Time?

Work planned

Work

completed

… Video on Directions.. S+S

The near Future

Visual Studio Team SystemExpanding Visual Studio across the Application Life Cycle

Tester

Developer

Architect

IT / ProjectManager

BusinessAnalyst

Database Professional

Designer

Software

Quality

Team

CollaborationProject

Transparency

IT Organizations are seeing improvements in collaboration and process through ALM

• Consistent and predictable development process

• Increased quality in service delivery

• Shared successes and accountability

• Superior reporting and traceability

• More effective project communication

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Belgian Post Office Cuts Stress Testing Solution Costs by 90%

Total cost of ownership

cut by 90 per cent

Productivity rises by up to

50 per cent

Quality of stress testing

improves

Better customer service

The Belgian Postal Group

wanted a cost-effective

performance testing

product for testing its

Web application to

replace its previous

system using HP

LoadRunner.

“For major releases our developers cut the time taken by half with

Visual Studio Team System. The comparable times saving for minor

releases was about 40 %.”

Bart Timmermans, Project Lead, Belgian Post Group

Full story at: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies

After an evaluation of the

market, Belgian Post

chose Microsoft® Visual

Studio® Team System

with Microsoft Visual

Studio 2005 Team Test

Load Agent.

Microsoft Development Internal dogfood story

The Power of an Integrated ALM Solution!!

-Easy to use, well integrated tools

Project Transparency, Visibility & Predictability – real time- Integrated reporting

Software quality, Automated Audit & regulatory compliance.

- Developing state of the art applications with a great User Experience!- by Retaining existing customers- Increasing Cross selling & Up-selling- Attracting new customers because of the unique user experience.