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
• 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]
• 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?]
• Collaborative and barrier-free development: Lisa Crispin, Gojko Adzic [Michael can you invite or introduce?]
• Scrum/Kanban: Damon Pool [Michael can you invite or introduce Damon]
• Potential talks from Michael
  • "Agile ALM"
  • "Task-based development - concepts/tools"
  • "Agile ALM, and release management"
  • "Agile ALM, and collaborative development"
  • "Continuous integration/inspection/deployment for experts"

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
• Jason Van Zyl - Maven
• Gradle talk for build (I have contact information for the gradle

project)

• Artifactory for repository ( I have contact information for JFrog)
• 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.