Good friend and coworker, Sam Guckenheimer presented at a recent Gartner conference how we changed the developer division from shipping a box product ~every year to delivering value every week with Visual Studio Team Services. In this presentation Sam discusses how we scaled our process to this cadence(production first mindset), how to focus on customer value, grooming our backlog with learning, gathering evidence in production, managing technical debt , team autonomy and enterprise alignment and managing infrastructure as a flexible resource
Sam Guckenheimer is the author of Agile Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio, from Concept to Continuous Feedback. Currently, Sam is the Product Owner for the Microsoft Visual Studio product line. In this capacity, he acts as the chief customer advocate, responsible for strategy of the next releases of these products. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Sam was Director of Product Line Strategy at Rational Software Corporation, now the Rational Division of IBM. Sam lives in the Seattle area with his wife and three children in a sustainable house they built that has been described in articles in Metropolitan Home and Pacific Northwest magazine.