Recently Ewald Hofman and I presented two sessions at the Microsoft Application Platform Conference. Gerard van der Pol envisaged an ALM Showcase track in which all phases of a development project would be presented. 

Yesterday and today we repeated this concept in a slightly different form. Together with Marcel, Edward, Hassan, Clemens, Rob, Rene and Gerard we had a lot of fun doing the interactive sessions.

11:10 - Planning the Showcase Application

13:30 - Modeling the Showcase Application

15:05 - Developing the Showcase Application

16:30 - Building the Showcase Application

09:15 - Planning, Design and Developing the Showcase Application (Recap Day 1)

10:50 - Using Version Control

13:15 - Selecting an Optimal Branch and Merge Strategy

14:50 - Performance testing

16:15 - Testing the Showcase Application

The most important part was to co-present the sessions: so there is a presenter and a code monkey who does the demos and presents where necessary. I think this made the sessions more attractive to the audience since there was continuous presenting and demos. Hopefully the audience enjoyed it too.

And it was an honor to share an agenda and speakers room with Anders Hejlsberg and Scott Hanselman!