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- 1. SharePoint: Application Lifecycle Management Date 25th June 2014 Derek Finnerty, Gerry Moloney, Alex Ferreira www.storm.ie www.storm.ie
- 2. • Customer Story: NTMA www.storm.ie • Business Challenges • Technical & Platform Challenges • Solution Approach • Learnings • Application Lifecycle Management • TFS, SharePoint and Managed Releases • Using the tools • Development Frameworks (Vortex) • Code Quality Assurance • Learnings Agenda Use of SharePoint in highly regulated environment
- 3. Business Challenges • Business to manage own environment • Integrate with their chosen 3rd party tools • Scalable for large number sites/data • Auditability www.storm.ie
- 4. ALM Process • Leverage the TFS Platform • Iterative approach • Progressive analysis, decomposition, estimation and iteration planning • Full end to end traceability www.storm.ie
- 5. Platform Challenges • Maintenance and Governance • Configuration • Soft and Hard limits of SharePoint • Restrictions that 3rd party tools impose www.storm.ie
- 6. Steps to resolution • Utilising the right tools • Development of a framework • Code quality assurance • Release Management – Quality Gates – Testing www.storm.ie
- 7. Solution Approach • “Governance Engine” to manage configuration • Template based approach • CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Deprecate) • Migration • Build Vs Buy www.storm.ie
- 8. Focal Points • Tailor the process to the organization • Leverage the framework • Master the tools • Improve code quality assurance www.storm.ie
- 9. www.storm.ie Foundation (Class Library) • Base •Upgrade Actions • Extensions Features (WSPs) • Server • UI •Apps Automation (PowerShell) • Reusable scripts • XML configuration • Release module
- 10. Lessons Learned • “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.” – Donald Rumsfeld www.storm.ie
- 11. Lessons Learned • Standardisation • Understand the SharePoint boundaries – Utilisation & Creation of Document ID’s • Trust the toolset (TFS) • Follow the process www.storm.ie
Editor's Notes
- Derek Presents
- Derek Presents
- Gerry Presents
- # Source Code / Manage Work using TFS Work Items # Features -> Requirements -> Tasks // -> Test Cases -> Bugs # Always in touch with the business goals! Technical tasks are not an end goal. # TFS Work Item Queries / Check-Ins associated with Tasks # Show the business as fast as possible (“fail early”) / TFS adoption same principle
- Gerry Presents
- # Tools: TFS (already mentioned) / Visual Studio 2013 / MS Test Manager # Drilling deep into SharePoint: SharePoint Manager, ILSpy, ULS Viewer (verbose logs) + test, test, test… # NTMA: Upgrade Actions / SharePoint OM Extensions / PowerShell scripts # Goals: faster release cycles (asked by the business), i.e. more value, faster! # Hot to get there: automated and repeatable deployments; stronger process managing a release; quality gates # TFS Build Server / SPCAF / Tasks’ duration <= 4 hours
- Gerry Presents
- Framework: keep momentum, stay relevant, immediate gains Release Management software: release path, automated tracking of progress, formal approvers & auditing SPCAF: Relevance tuning exercise, Custom rule set Storm: customers have similar challenges / repeating pattern of successful solutions / faster & more flexible implementation