In episode 31, Jeremy Thake speaks to Vesa Juvonen about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Office 365 Development. Vesa shares what they have been doing with the Office 365 Patterns & Practices initiative with regard to ALM as well as what his core customers that he works with are doing. He also talks about different options for dev/test/prod environments for Office 365 too.
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About Vesa Juvonen
Vesa Juvonen is a senior program manager with the SharePoint Customer Experience team in product group. Prior to being a member of the CXP team, Vesa was a principal consultant with Microsoft Services for eight years before moving to product group. Vesa was also SharePoint MCM (Microsoft Certified Master) instructor for the life cycle of the program and is considered an industry expert on the use of the app model and more specifically on the transformation from farm solutions to the app model.
Vesa leads the team which created the Office 365 Developer PnP (Pattern and Practice) project (formerly known as OfficeAMS) to help customers transition into the new app model. Vesa is also a frequent speaker at SharePoint conference and events.
In this episode Jeremy Thake talks to Rob Howard from the Office Developer Platform team who heads up the Office 365 APIs strategy.
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About Rob Howard

Rob Howard joined Microsoft in August of 2005 and currently works as a program manager on the Office Developer Platform team, where he works on the app models for Office clients, servers and services. His goal is to enable developers to build collaborative productivity applications more efficiently and effectively by leveraging the capabilities of Office, SharePoint, Exchange and a variety of other Office applications and services. In previous releases Rob worked on areas like the SharePoint app model, csom, sandboxed solutions, SharePoint solution deployment, the fab 40 and SharePoint Designer. Rob has a passion for collaborative applications because they can enhance individual and organizational productivity by ensuring that the people and information vital to completing a task are connected and readily available in the appropriate contexts.
About the host

Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc., a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft.
You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.
In this episode Jeremy Thake talks to Andrew Byrne who heads up a team responsible for code samples in the Office 365 Developer Content Publishing team.
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About Andrew

Andrew leads a team at Microsoft building code samples to help developers succeed on the Office 365 platform. During his 10 years at Microsoft, he has worked in Office, Windows Phone and Visual Studio. His knowledge and passion for software come from 20 years of development experience gained at Microsoft, Siemens, Ericsson and his own startup in the mobile space.
You can find Andrew coding at github and tweeting at @AndrewJByrne
About the host

Jeremy is a technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc., a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft.
You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.
In this episode Jeremy Thake speaks to Abhishek Kumar and Suresh Jayabalan from the Visual Studio team responsible for Apache Cordova development in Visual Studio.
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About Suresh

Suresh has been at Microsoft for almost nine years, working on developer technologies the whole time. He spent most of his time on Microsoft’s JavaScript engine “Chakra” that powers Internet Explorer 9 and later versions. He is currently focusing on mobile app development technologies and Apache Cordova.
About Abhishek

Abhishek is a senior software engineer on the Visual Studio team. He is a member of Experience & Insight team for Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, where his primary focus is evaluating developer experience for connected apps using Office 365 and Azure services and build Visual Studio Cordova community. You can catch him on StackOverflow, where he is active member on visual-studio-cordova or multi-device-hybrid-apps. He has been with Visual Studio team for more than eight years.
About the host

Jeremy is a newly appointed technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc., a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft.
You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.