Broadcast Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011

Speakers:
Stefano Rizzo, VP Strategy & Business Development, Polarion Software


 

After a long incubation, ALM market is (finally) getting into maturity. Application Development and its supporting environments and tools are now entering an historic time.

So, while the largest part of the actual proposition of tools follows a pretty old concept that is strongly rooted in the waterfall model of software development, there are some raising stars that are finally going to extinguish dinosaur technologies. The market is no longer willing to accept disconnected islands of automation that, once put in the same box, vendors’ marketing departments call “ALM”. The actual trend is to create single foundations that embed most of the features needed by ALM users, with a high degree of flexibility and good integration capabilities with existing corporate assets. The future looks bright: instant collaboration, mobile access, embedded process knowledge, statements management, forensic reporting are just few examples of what an ALM user should expect to have soon.

In this presentation we will take a look into what an ALM user or evaluator should expect today and tomorrow in terms of ALM practices and supporting tools.

Broadcast Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011

Speakers:
Kelly Emo
Director, Applications Product Marketing
HP Software & Solutions


 

Many Enterprises are relying on legacy applications that once efficiently supported simple business processes.   Over the years, business processes have grown more complex, and the applications that support them are now integrated with many other applications and technologies. As such, businesses today are increasingly embracing the need to become more agile, and the shift to the cloud is one of the key initiatives they are turning to.  In this session, the presenter discussed the need for modernizing composite applications to increase business agility before adopting the cloud.  Learn:

• what are composite applications
• how to effectively manage change in composite applications
• the best methods to lower business risk through planning, developing and testing composite applications

Time: 12:45 PM ET | 11:45 AM CT | 9:45 AM PT
Duration: One hour and fifteen minutes

Speakers:
Gregory Pope, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


 

During Greg Pope’s forty years in the industry, many great processes and new tools have been promoted by incredibly gifted people. It seems that someone is always promising a cure all—the proverbial “silver bullet”—for software woes. Still, the most common request Greg gets from software developers and managers is to “look at our development process and tell us how to make it better.” Greg’s goals for this presentation are for us to understand what “better” really means, to discuss common problems and potential solutions, and to become empowered to make our personal and our group’s practices better. He examines valuable ideas that seem to reincarnate themselves periodically and explores the challenges of today’s modern software. Although there may not be a silver bullet for your software woes, perhaps there is “silver buckshot”—a collection of techniques and tools to solve common problems—which, when properly aimed by capable professionals, will make your software better.

Broadcast Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011

Speakers:
Kristy McDougal, Systems Engineer at VaraLogix


 

When bringing ALM to Operations, one size definitely does not fit all. It’s been said that ALM solutions promise full lifecycle visibility for aligning business objectives with development.  But all too often, these solutions end up being used as developer tools to manage individual projects. In this presentation, we’ll explore how correct deployment and configuration of complex applications can be achieved as part of the ALM lifecycle.  More importantly, we’ll discuss why approaching deployment from an Operations perspective makes all the difference – supporting ALM without the overhead.  Deploying applications requires more than just dropping the application into a middleware server because applications don’t exist in a vacuum.  Databases, web front ends, networks, external appliances, local support libraries, operating systems – all must share configuration information and work as a unit for correct deployment.  This presentation explores these real-world lessons learned and more:

•    Understanding topology, dependencies, and configurations
•    Modeling application relationships
•    Where VaraLogix Q fits to deliver the ALM to Ops connection
•    Using private/public clouds when it makes sense. . . and more