SPALM

Me and my team at Steria Mummert Consulting in Germany are specialized in establishing SharePoint development processes in companies, starting with SharePoint requirements engineering, architecture, SharePoint code analysis, SharePoint testing and deployment processes. To automate this process we have developed several tools.

One of these tools is SPSF SharePoint Software Factory. This tool is an extension for Microsoft Visual Studio and helps developers to create SharePoint code much more faster and easier.

This tool can now be found as a project at Codeplex.com. You can download the tool and use it for your SharePoint projects. Source code is available.

Download: http://spsf.codeplex.com
Documentation: http://spsf.spalmblogger.de/documentation

Together with Microsoft Germany I had 3 sessions in January 2010 with the topic “SharePoint Development with Visual Studio Team System”. Each day we were in a different city (Munich, Cologne, Bad Homburg) and introduced SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010 and my topic SPALM to invited customers and developers.

In my session I presented the methods and tools which we use at Steria Mummert to make development for SharePoint much more faster and easier.

The feedback to these session was great and all sessions were overbooked. So Microsoft and I will have 4 new sessions between February and April 2010.

You can download the slides of my presentation here (only in German):Download (PDF, 4,1 MB)

Please contact me for a translation to English if needed.

At 21.11.2008 I had the chance to present the SharePoint Application Lifecycle Management on the Microsoft TechSummit conference in Berlin (title of the presentation was “SharePoint Software Factory: MOSS-Development automatisieren”). It was a great audience for this topic and I had very interesting discussions. Mid of december you can download a video of the presentation here.

More info:
Microsoft TechSummit page
My presentation in the agenda
My presentation TechSummit 2008 (.PDF, 3.8 MB)

At 02.12.2008 I will conduct a workshop on TeamConf 2008 in Zürich. The topic is “SharePoint as a development plattform” (”SharePoint als Entwicklungsplattform: Erweiterung von SharePoint auf Basis eines bewährten Entwicklungsprozesses”). I will show how SharePoint can be extended by custom development and how this can be done with a defined development process, of course based on SPALM.

More information and registration:
TeamConf Website

After my presentation at TechSummit 2008 in Berlin I was asked by Michael Greth for an interview about SPALM. You can download the interview here.

Here you can find my presentation about SPALM from BASTA2008 in Mainz (Germany). I had this presentation on September 22, 2008. Unfortunatly I have no video from the presentation so you can’t see my demo.

Download presentation (.pdf, 7MB)

At the conference Microsoft TeamConf 2008 in Munich I presented with a co-worker a software factory for SharePoint. I have developed the software factory with the Guidance Automation Toolkit (by Microsoft). At the conference we presented the software factory and how we can create a SharePoint feature with a wizard in Visual Studio. In the second part we showed the automatic deployment of the feature with TFS 2008 into a SharePoint environment.

Find more information about the conference here:
http://www.teamconf.de/
http://www.teamconf.de/rueckblick-teamconf-2008/1-konferenztag/

Our presentation can be downloaded here:
Presentation TeamConf 2008