Jeremy Thake Bio

Jeremy Thake utilizes more than 10 years of software development industry experience and expertise in Microsoft technologies to assist global enterprises in building solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms. As a SharePoint MVP, Jeremy’s proven expertise has earned him multiple speaking engagements at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups worldwide. Jeremy is a co-founder of NothingButSharePoint.com, a SharePoint community portal, focusing on the Developer Channel and built the platform on top of SharePoint 2010.

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Application Lifecycle Management in SharePoint 2010

Jeremy Thake, Enterprise Architect at AvePoint Inc and SharePoint MVP, will explain the principles of Application Lifecycle Management in SharePoint 2010. The session will suit SharePoint Developers, Team Leaders, Architects and Development Managers to understand how to approach ALM with SharePoint.

The pillars of ALM will be discussed in detail and the benefits of each from a Solution perspective.

The ALM maturity model will be presented to allow you to evaluate where you are in your own internal processes and how to mature these further.

The NothingButSharePoint.com Project ALM approach will be discussed in detail as a case study, which involves global distributed development teams and designers. The pros and cons of this approach will be compared to the others. Common problems with promoting from Dev to Staging to Production will be discussed in detail.

From this session you should walk away with:

·         An understanding of what application lifecycle management is

·         An understanding of the approaches to ALM with SharePoint Development