Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint in the Enterprise

​SharePoint has become mission critical, complex, and wide-ranging in most enterprises. How do we apply the best practices of ALM in this environment? In this session I cover the following:

• System Center Virtual Machine Manager and AutoSPInstall to quickly provision dev, test, and production farms by leveraging HyperV
• Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server to manage an Agile Scrum team
• Build servers and automated testing to create a continuous integration environment
• Moving code and content in both directions through a dev/test/prod lifecycle
• How to capture as much of the SharePoint configuration in components that can be deployed, rather than manual steps

The goal is to build a change management process that merges the content authored in production with the code written in development effectively. 

​Key Learnings

• How to create an environment to support your SharePoint Development and QA teams
• Agile and continuous integration in a SharePoint environment
• The value of automated testing
• Demonstration
• Provisioning of test environments through SCVMM
• Live automated build and test scenario

The Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint in the Enterprise deck is available for download. 

Details on session dates can be found at www.envisionit.com/events-and-news/events/seminar-application-lifecycle-management-for-sharepoint-in-the-enterprise-february-2012.