{"id":313,"date":"2015-03-06T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/2015\/03\/06\/whats-your-software-development-capability-try-a-developer-foundation-assessment-to-find-out\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:34:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T21:34:58","slug":"whats-your-software-development-capability-try-a-developer-foundation-assessment-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/whats-your-software-development-capability-try-a-developer-foundation-assessment-to-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s your software development capability? Try a Developer Foundation Assessment to find out."},"content":{"rendered":"

Senior Application Development Managers, Pete Fuenfhausen <\/strong>and Paul Martissa<\/strong> spotlight how our Development Foundation Assessment<\/strong> can help identify areas of improvement in your development lifecycle.<\/p>\n

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Do you wonder how effective your team is at building applications?\u00a0 Have you ever considered that you may not be taking advantage of the best practices available to development teams today?\u00a0 Do you wonder if competitors may be leveraging these best practices to gain an advantage over you?<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s application development environment is insanely fast-paced, fiercely competitive, and changing constantly.\u00a0 Meanwhile, your consumers expect, no, demand<\/em> application quality and performance.\u00a0 Having an effective, efficient, and flexible application lifecycle and the tools that support it has never been more important than now.\u00a0 Knowing what to focus on in order to improve in your application lifecycle management processes can be a daunting prospect.\u00a0 As Sun Tzu said, \u201cIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft Premier Support for Developers<\/a> offers a streamlined, effective means of quickly and accurately assessing your development capability against the most up to date best practices in the industry.\u00a0 The Developer Foundation Assessment or DFA is a fast, comprehensive method of assessing development team capability.\u00a0 Based on our collective experience, the DFA provides scored findings and recommendations in 5 key areas of the development lifecycle: application design and project planning, development quality, testing, build and deployment (including DevOps) and security.\u00a0 Premier Developer Application Development Managers (ADMs) conduct the DFA through hour-long interviews with the key roles on a development team: developers, testers, business analysts, project managers, and management.\u00a0 The resulting report provides a visual of current development capability across the lifecycle, scored findings in each of 12 lifecycle areas, and recommendations for improving the development capability in each area.<\/p>\n

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The Premier Developer DFA addresses many of the shortcomings of other development capability assessments in the industry.\u00a0 Many other assessment methodologies are labor and time intensive, levying a hefty burden on the assessed organization and therefore reducing the optimal frequency at which assessments are conducted.\u00a0 The results of most assessments are subjective in nature, lacking a reliable scoring mechanism, as well as the consequent ability to compare results with other teams and within a single team over time.\u00a0 By design, the DFA presents a very light commitment of time and resources on an assessed team.\u00a0 A moderately sized development team can be comprehensively assessed with the DFA in a single day.\u00a0 Because of this efficiency, many of our DFA customers conduct multiple assessments during the year to track their lifecycle improvements and keep their management informed.\u00a0 The DFA\u2019s scored findings also allow organizations to compare the capability of different development teams and focus improvement efforts where they are needed most.<\/p>\n

To get started with a Developer Foundation Assessment for your team or organization, contact your Application Development Manager (ADM) or email us<\/a> to learn more about how Microsoft Premier Support for Developers<\/a> can increase your development capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senior Application Development Managers, Pete Fuenfhausen and Paul Martissa spotlight how our Development Foundation Assessment can help identify areas of improvement in your development lifecycle. Do you wonder how effective your team is at building applications?\u00a0 Have you ever considered that you may not be taking advantage of the best practices available to development teams […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":37840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,34,65,44,45],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permierdev","tag-advisory","tag-alm","tag-discover","tag-services","tag-training"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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