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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.

Microsoft ALM Product Family

Project Portfolio Server
Project Server
Visual Studio 2010
Team Foundation Server 2010

Microsoft Training

Course #6215 - Implementing and Administering Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server

Course #6214 - Effective Team Development using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

 

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