Sponsored Video: A look at Microsoft Visual Studio & the ALM Assessment
Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft, used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with web sites, Windows Forms applications, web applications, and web services in native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 has new and enhanced features that make the development process much easier from design to deployment. Users can now create rich applications for SharePoint and the web, and target multiple versions of the .NET Framework with the same tool, which makes it much faster. Users will be happy to know the dreaded “no repro” problem can be eliminated with IntelliTrace. The newest version also adds multiple monitor support allowing users to create a workspace that best works for them.
Visual Studio now incorporates Agile practices, users can now efficiently streamline the collaboration process and lower wasted efforts in all phases of the lifecycle to improve visibility and interactivity across the team, from development to operations. The application development team at Swedish insurance company Länsförsäkringar AB is expected to cut software development time and costs by 20 percent thanks to the adoption of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 along with iterative development techniques with agile planning tools and a virtual test laboratory with automated builds and deployment. The company is also expected to deliver better applications and improve customer service.
You can find out more information about Microsoft Visual Studio here.
ALM Assessment
A modern organisation needs a good strategy, to differentiate its self from its competitors. Unique applications provide one of the most important ways an IT department provides value back to the business. This can bring long-term profitability, so it needs to be good at ALM. This requires a business to integrate activities and teams, which requires a mature approach to the development and IT organisation. The Assessment has been designed by expert ALM practitioners in the UK to help people understand how well there organisation is currently using ALM and how and where they can improve it. I twill also give insight into how they can make immediate improvements as well as improvements to work towards as a long term goal. You can register to ALM Assessment here and once completed you will have the option to be connected to expert partners, Microsoft events and other resources that will help you progress your companies ALM practices.
You can register to ALM Assessment here.
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