This document discusses how Visual Studio Team System can maximize ROI and drive IT governance through an integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution. It provides concise summaries of key points, including how VSTS improves collaboration, ensures quality, integrates work frequently, and enables real-time decision making. IT governance is also discussed at a high level, focusing on compliance, metrics/reporting, and aligning IT with business needs. Examples are given of organizations seeing improvements in areas like productivity, quality, and cost reductions through an ALM approach.

1. How to Maximise ROI and drive IT Governance
with Visual Studio Team System
The Power of an Integrated ALM Solution
Julio Fernández-Gayoso
Sales manager for Development Tools
Western European Microsoft HQ
• Running Windows 7 build 7000
Reykjavik, January 19th 2008

3. The ALM market trends

4. Microsoft vs. the Java World
A decade of competition
Microsoft Java
1996 Windows DNA Java, Java VM
1999 J2EE 1.0
2002 .NET Framework 1.0
2003 J2EE 1.4
2005 .NET Framework 2.0
2006 .NET Framework 3.0 Java
EE 5 Spring
2007 .NET Framework 3.5 SCA
…
Source: From David Chappell Application Platform session at tech-ed EMEA Barcelona Nov 2008

5. ALM Market Growth

6. Customers Business & IT Challenges
Manage complexity
- remote dev locations
- Windows mobile
Improved ROI & - SOA
IT Governance 70%
Execute 30% IT People
operational cost
changes rapidly
and flexibly
Increase
Application
Resource
Increase Productivity
Quality & Utilization - Role productivity
Functionality - Learning Curve
- SLA, 24x7
- Code Quality
Improved - Team Productivity and
efficiency
- Time to Market Reduce IT TCO
Cost

7. 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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9. Development Tools & Applications
Tools Applications

11. Visual Studio Team System
Business Analyst
Web Clients and
XML Web Services
Third-Party IDEs
Operations, QA and
Help Desk

12. 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

13. 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

14. Ensure Quality Early & Often
• Quality-centric toolset
– focus on Software quality vs just testing
– Integrated throughout lifecycle
– Reduces overall project cost

15. Integrate Work Frequently
• Full featured version control system
– Continuous Integration
– Scheduled Builds
– Relate work item to check-in
– Check-out on Edit
– Labeling

16. Make Real-time Decisions
• Comprehensive business intelligence
reporting system
– Real-time data
– Project Transparency, Visibility & Predictability
– Enabling critical decision making

17. Our Framework
“IT Governance”
CIO: Aligning IT with Business Priorities
Decision Making Framework
“Portfolio Management”
Project Management Office (PMO):
Maximize IT execution and compliance
Business
Enterprise
Process Development
Operations Lifecycle Architecture
Management Lifecycle
Quality KPI’s
Capacity Availability
“Connected IT Data”
Metrics, Change Management, Workflow, Issue Tracking, Policies,
Resource Pools and Schedules
Project Server Team Foundation Service Desk

18. The VSTS -ALM value Prop:
..our evolution …
From Developer ..
to Development
to .. Real-time Reporting & project management
to .. IT governance

19. Information Technology Governance
From 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

20. Compliance and Auditing

21. Real-time Reports

22. Metrics & Real-Time Reporting Enable Transparency

23. How Effective Is Our (Outsourced) Team?
Against code
Test rates
coverage, …
(pass, inconclusive,
fail) shown in bars
code churn, …
and active bugs

24. How Far Can We Get In The Available Time?
Work planned
Work
completed

25. … Video on Directions..
S+S
The near Future

27. Visual Studio Team System
Expanding Visual Studio across the Application Life Cycle
Designer Developer Database
Professional
Architect
Tester
Business IT / Project
Analyst Manager
Project Team Software
Transparency Collaboration Quality

28. 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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29. “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
Belgian Post Office Cuts Stress Testing Solution Costs by 90%
 The Belgian Postal Group  After an evaluation of the  Total cost of ownership
wanted a cost-effective market, Belgian Post cut by 90 per cent
performance testing chose Microsoft® Visual  Productivity rises by up to
product for testing its Studio® Team System 50 per cent
Web application to with Microsoft Visual  Quality of stress testing
replace its previous Studio 2005 Team Test improves
system using HP Load Agent.  Better customer service
LoadRunner.
Full story at: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies

30. Microsoft Development Internal dogfood story

31. The Power of an Integrated ALM Solution!!
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-Easy to use, well integrated tools
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Project Transparency, Visibility & Predictability
– real time- Integrated reporting
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Software quality, Automated Audit & regulatory compliance.
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- 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.