1. Removing Barriers between
Development and Operations

2. Enabling Continuous Value Delivery
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Continuous Deployment with Release Management
• DevOps: Integrating Operations and Development

3. Plan Develop OperateRelease

5. Delivery Delays
Non-Working Code
Incomplete Solutions
Rework
Flexible Build > Deploy > Test Workflows
Quality Gates
Dependancy Management
Test Automation
Continuous Integration
A Working Product after every Check-In

6. Continuous
Integration
Early and Often
Gated Check In
TFS Integration
Manage Builds

8. 40%Still release quarterly or less!
Source: Continuous Delivery Is Reshaping The Future Of ALM, Forrester Research, Inc., July 22, 2013

9. High Stress High Risk
Expensive
multi-team Investment

10. Increase delivery cadence
Increase predictability and consistency when deploying
Reduce complexity when deploying to hybrid environments
Release Planning
Environment Management
Release Automation
Release Management
Deploy the same code every time, everywhere, in the same way

13. ReleaseManagementfor
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14. Established
single source of
truth.
Automated
deployment
steps.
Dependencies
defined and
managed.
Release plan
definition.
Release
pipeline
definition and
environment
management.
“one-click”
highly
automated
releases.

15. Release Planning
What, when, where, who, how will be released and the ability to compare release plans vs. actual status.
Release Definition
Authoring of release pipeline and approval workflow.
Environment Management
Provisioning, configuration, and teardown of physical and virtual environments.
Deployment Automation
Track status and progress
Rollbacks, logs, approvals and alerts.

17. Release Visibility
and Transparency
View Release Pipeline
Status and Issues
Monitor progress of
each release
Check the status of
your releases
Identify issues and patterns in
your application deployment

19. Define Release Plans
and Templates
Define groups that can
create, edit and view release
templates
Define required approvals
for each release stage
Define stage types for a
given environment
Granular control for the
entire release process
Seamless integration with
Visual Studio Build process

20. Define Release Plans
and Templates
Define a release workflow
and its activities for each of
your applications
Use built-in actions for
deployment or create your
own with PowerShell
Use built-in actions or
define your own
Define release workflow and
activities per environment

21. Flexible Release
Approval Workflow
Simple way to request and
provide approvals.
The defined approval can
start, stop, approve, reject,
restart, retry, abandon or
even reassign releases.
Simple way to request
and provide approvals
Trigger actions
based on approvals

24. Create, Update and Delete Release Pipeline Workflow
Approve stages
and sign-off on
release
Deploy to Server
No CAL
Required
Release Management Client available at no additional cost. Each target node receiving deployment needs to be
licensed through Visual Studio Deployment Standard
or Visual Studio Deployment Datacenter offering.
CAL waiver for a user
who just wants to
approve a stage

25. Production Outages
Scaling Issues
Unknown Usage Patterns
Memory Issues
Production Bugs
IntelliTrace in Production
IntelliTrace Performance Indicators
Memory Dump Analysis
Cloud Based Load Testing
Developers
Operations
Testers
Monitor
Integrated and Accessible Analytics

26. System Center
Integration
Incident Alert
DevOps Collaboration
IntelliTrace
PreEmptive Analytics

27. IntelliTrace Performance
Indicators
Performance Data
Event Details
Execution Tree
Jump to Code

28. Memory Dump
Analysis
Debug Dump Files
Find Memory Leaks
Trace References