Founding Partner

Certified Agile Microsoft Gold Pragmatic ALM

Founded in 2008 Microsoft ALM
Coaches ALM Partner Approach
Inner Circle

Polaris Solutions is an Application Lifecycle Management

consulting firm, specializing in helping teams deliver high Microsoft Partner
value software through technical leadership, process Gold Application Lifecycle Management
improvement, and software development expertise. Silver Application Development
IT will be a predictable Engineering discipline

Technology is an enabler

People make the greatest difference

Lean and Agile are the best approach today

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Outcome Focused
• Speed
• Agility
• Quality
• Security
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 Open, flexible, and extensible
cross-platform DevOps tools

Unlocks a greater ecosystem and

works with what you already use

More agility and flexibility for

continuous value delivery
Visual Studio Team Services
Code Repository Build + Deploy Automated Testing User Feedback

Backlog

Monitor and improve

End-to-end DevOps
1 Plan + Track 4 Monitor + Learn

Development Production

2 Develop + Test 3 Release

 Plan + Track
It starts with an idea - and a plan how
to turn this idea into reality… Project starts

Manage work

Develop + Test 1

Track progress Plan

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Lean & Agile

Develop + Test
After the iteration starts,
developers turn great ideas
2
into features and functionality …
Write Code

Unit Testing

Version Control

Build

Build Verification

Release
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Automated Testing
Continuous Integration
Release
When all tests pass, the build is deployed
to testing environments for each
stage in the release process … Cloud
Load Testing

Integration testing
Staging
environment
environment

3 Monitor + Learn

Automated functional Pre-production

testing environment environment
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Continuous Deployment
Release Management
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When all tests pass, the build is deployed to testing environments for
each stage in the release process
Plan the next iteration

Feedback

Monitor

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Application Insights
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AppInsights – Query Details
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Extensions Extensions Services Extensions
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VSTS Extensions Gallery

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