Your ALM connection. Do you work on or manage a team of software professionals? Do you want to better understand other roles on the team? Are you trying to get past the marketing hype to hear real-life stories about agile practices like Scrum or Test Driven Development? These are all components of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), the art of coordinating business needs with all disciplines software development, including product management, requirements management, architecture, modeling, coding, testing and releasing.

User Group Format. The NYC Visual Studio User Group is an official non–profit MSDN user group dedicated to the professional Visual Studio community. This is a dynamic organization for learning and sharing ideas on Visual Studio and ALM methodologies. Presenters are industry experts and passionate evangelists, delivering presentations to highlight the latest in the Visual Studio suite of tools, including the .NET platform.

Come and Share. If you are in the software profession and are interested in .NET technologies and learning more about managing the development lifecycle, join us. You’ll gain a unique opportunity to learn best practices from the presenters’ experiences, network with IT professionals and share solutions to common development issues.