Lessons from the Cloud

Referent: Brian Harry, General Manager Team Foundation Server

Tag und Uhrzeit: Mittwoch, 23. November 2011, 14:10 - 15:55 Uhr

Abstract: Over the past year, we have been redeveloping TFS on Windows Azure, now in public preview.  We have also been running a hosted TFS service internally at Microsoft for six years with tens of thousands of users. Running services at scale requires a different approach to managing release cadence, quality, architecture and customer interaction than traditional IT.  As we move more of our conventional systems to the Cloud, and more of our IT becomes hybrid on- and off-premise, these lessons become key.

Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working as the General Manager for Team Foundation Server - a server-based product designed to dramatically improve the productivity, predictability, and agility of software development teams by ensuring that all team members have easy access to the information they need to make the right decisions at the right time. Brian Harry worked at start up DaVinci Systems doing electronic mail software from 1988 to 1992. In 1992 Brian left DaVinci Systems with two others to create One Tree Software. One Tree, was a classic garage-type startup company that developed and sold SourceSafe (the same product that is now Microsoft Visual SourceSafe).

One Tree Software was acquired by Microsoft in 1994. After joining Microsoft, Brian worked in what was then the Tools and Databases division. For a couple of years he worked on SourceSafe and then on Microsoft Repository. In 1996 he and others began working on the problem of improving the approachability of API for the developer masses. Although this started as investigation of ways to extend COM it eventually grew into what we now know as the .NET Framework. Brian served as the Development manager for the Common Language Runtime and then as the Product Unit Manager through the rest of the V1 and most of the V1.1 product cycle.

For personal reasons, Brian chose to move back to North Carolina at the end of 2002. Fortunately there was a great opportunity to open a development center there and continue to build tools to serve developers for Microsoft. Brian has built a team  in NC who work on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

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