The second Architect Council for year 2009 was held on 10 Jun at Microsoft office. The theme was around Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). In the morning, we had 68 attendees. We covered overview of ALM, NCS consultants who spoke about their ALM experiences and Agile development methodologies. In the afternoon, there were 2 breakout tracks with a total of 107 attendees. One breakout track on Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft’s ALM tool and the other on BizTalk Server 2009. All the sessions were well received.

Some of the positive comments below….

• I like the interactive session
• The sample/demonstration
• The real life demo by Quah is good
• Showing practical example helps in understanding
• Deep dive on VSTS Track provide a lot of info about VSTS which is very useful
• Relevant to current business
• Very good content and speaker. Valuable knowledge
• Information on ALM and Agile are useful and informative
• Good Envisions into Microsoft Technologies
• Simple and easy Registration
  Cohesive environment with writing materials
  Interactive
• "Deep dive on VSTS track" content and demo, venue and timing
• Explore the latest tools and methodology

All the presentation slides and video recordings can be found at geeksengaged, the technical community portal.

Some memorable moments….