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Application Lifecycle Management
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
applies a broad view to software assets. ALM focuses on
the entire life of an application from the selection process
through the requirements, coding, testing, release cycles, and
finally to the ongoing maintenance, upgrades, and retirement.
Agora is a member of the Visual Studio Team System Inner
Circle. The Inner Circle program is designed to recognize
elite Microsoft partners that specialize in assisting customers
with the planning, deployment and customization of Visual Studio
Team System.

Services
Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
Overview
The overview is a free 1/2 day presentation that gives your developers
and non-developers and overview of the Microsoft ALM suite.
After the presentation you will have an understanding of how the
Microsoft product family could be used to drastically increase
development efficiency in your organization.
Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Planning Workshop
The Planning Workshop is the best way to get
your organization ready for a Visual Studio and Team Foundation
Server deployment. This three day workshop provides an
overview of the Microsoft product family and creates a
customized roadmap for deployment.
Visual Studio 2010 Planning Workshop details.
Microsoft Training
Agora can advise which Microsoft training is most
suitable for your staff and arrange for the training by a
Microsoft Certified Trainer.
Visual Source Safe to Team Foundation Server Migration
Planning is essential when moving from VSS to TFS.
Agora can provide a migration plan that will ensure a smooth
transition to TFS.
Team Foundation Server 2008 to Team Foundation Server 2010 Migration
TFS 2010 has some great enhancements that make moving up to
TFS 2010 compelling. As part of the migration planning
Agora will provide guidance on server and project consolidation.
Team Foundation Server Pilot
The TFS Pilot is intended to allow a pilot development team
to
work with TFS in either a lab setting or on a production
application. The lab offering is intended to demonstrate
features within TFS whereas the production pilot is intended for
organizations that are preparing to deploy TFS to their full
team.
ALM Readiness Assessment
Understanding where your organizations strengths and
weaknesses are and having a comprehensive plan for improvement
is critical for ALM adoption. Agora can assist your
organization's growth by performing a review of the current
maturity level of development patterns and practices and create
a plan for improvement.
Enterprise Strategy
Consultant
ESCs combine in-depth knowledge of your business and industry
with a detailed understanding of Microsoft's vision and
technologies to help architect, implement and deploy leading
edge Microsoft technologies and solutions. The level of ESC
involvement is tailored to the business requirement. Having an
onsite ESC is an excellent way of ensuring a strategic technology vision within your IT
organisation.
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