AgileALMConnectPC

Agile ALM Connect Program Committee

This page is to track the ideas and activities of the Agile ALM Connect Program Committee for the 2012 conference.

Nothing on this page should be viewed as a commitment by the PC. This is our shared working area.

PC Members

Mik Kersten, Eclipse Mylyn Project Leader and CEO Tasktop

Luke Kanies, CEO Puppet Labs

Jason van Zyl, Maven Founder and CTO of Sonatype

Michael Huettermann, Consultant and Author of Agile ALM

Dave West, Research Director, Forrester Research

Dates and Location

March 26-29, 2012 Reston, VA

Call for Papers

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/agilealm/cfp

Sessions and Tutorials

• 40 - 35 minutes sessions over Tuesday to Thursday
• 4 - 3 hours tutorials on Monday

Suggested Topics and Speakers

Use Cases

• Github (Scott Charon) and Atlassian (Jean-Michel Lemieux) to present on how they release software. Both companies have done blog

posts about their internal development process and I think it would be interesting content. [Ian has invited both companies to talk]

• Potential case studies: DHL, maybe ask Facebook, twitter, Linkedin

Concepts

• HP - Mik has a contact at HP that is very good at providing the vision for requirements mgmt. [Mik will invite]
• Ryan Martins from Rally Software - talk about flow/ managing flow and Kanban
• Sacha Labourey from Cloudbees to talk about Development as a PaaS [Ian has invited Sacha]
• Mik Kersten to talk about Future of ALM
• Michael can talk about the current status and future of Agile ALM
• Sam Gukenheimer from MS to talk about MS view of ALM
• Analyst Panel to discuss future of ALM. Potential panelist: Dave West, Tom Murphy, Melinda Belu, Jame Governor, Mike Adolf
• Continuous Delivery - [Ian will talk with Thoughtworks for a replacemetn speaker to Jez who is not available. Also contact David Farley, to see if he could talk] MH: David is co-author of the book, would be an excellent fit.
• Anything on repurposing dev tools (SCM, automated testing, build tools, ticket trackers, etc.) by sysadmins. The github guys probably have good stories here, as would Jason Van Zyl and anyone else who's building great dev/build/deploy tools. Capistrano exemplifies another category of tool that kind of crosses that line.
• Developing software to be managed - what your code has to be good at to make it easy to deploy and manage. The Google guys would be great at this - they have an internal system that forces a lot of instrumentation and control onto their apps, and it makes a world of difference. Not sure if we could get them to talk about it, but I bet we could.
• The Amazon CloudFormation guys are doing interesting stuff that crosses over, too, and they've been really active recently.
• Tools that encourage collaboration on shared goals - one of the big problems in devops is getting over the cultural and technology barrier between dev and ops. A shared toolbase can be a great bridge to this kind of problem.
• What is Devops? talk - [Luke Kanies would do this]
• Jesse Newland - formerly of RailsMachine, now of github. He's been doing devops forever. [Luke can you contact Jesse??]
• Technical debt – Perhaps Israel Gat would be a good resource. [Dave West suggested this. I am not sure how Technical Debt fits with the Agile ALM theme?]
• Flow / managing flow – the whole Kanban movement – Ryan Martins would be another good resource on this topic. [Dave can you provide an introduction to Ryan]
• Analytics / Measurement – Not sure who would be good, maybe David Anderson [Not sure which David Anderson, Dave can you clarify?]
• Scrum/Kanban: Damon Pool from AccuRev [proposed and invited by Michael]
• Michael had the idea of including sessions that cover collaborative and barrier-free development. He invited the following experts to submit a proposal: Lisa Crispin, Gojko Adzic, Paul Boos, Nate Oster, Lanette Creamer, Janet Gregory
• Potential talks from Michael: different aspects of Agile ALM (use cases, tools, concepts)

Tools

• Saucelabs founder to talk about Sollenium testing [Ian has invited Jason Higgins]
• Winston Prakash - Hudson topics
• Someone from IBM regarding OSLC
• Heroku presentation, maybe ask James Ward
• Maven - Jason Van Zyl
• Gradle talk for build
• Artifactory for repository
• Potentially include speakers on a variety of open source projects:

Git, Mantis, Gerrit, Code Collaborator, Puppet, testing tool from Erich Gamma, Subversion

• Someone from CloudSmith, who have strong Eclipse experience and are now building Puppet tools for developers to more easily manage their operations. [Ian will contact Cloudsmith]
• Tool vendors: Rally, CollabNet, codeBeamer, MKS, ...
• PaaS/IaaS/SaaS: CloudBees (they would talk about about Jenkins in the cloud)
• Best-of-breed tools in specific areas: e.g. Scala/specs2, Atlassian products, Sonar, Selenium, Fit/FitNesse, ...