Federal User Group - Micro FocusFederal User Group Two learning filled days, over 30 breakout sessions split across three distinct tracks. Sessions will include product roadmaps, interactive

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Federal User Group

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Welcome

Welcome to the Federal User Group

Two learning filled days, over 30 breakout sessions split across three distinct tracks. Sessions will include product roadmaps, interactive discussions on future direction and technical sessions that will enable you to gain even more value from the products you own.

Track 1 –

Application Definition and Development

Come hear how to rapidly deliver high quality requirements and learn how to develop with velocity collab-oratively, securely and efficiently.

Track 2 – Business and Service Management

Learn how the cultural, technical and business objectives of Federal DevOps Transformation projects are being enabled and supported by Micro Focus.

Track 3 –

Enterprise DevOps and Release Management

Using a low-code/no-code approach, Micro Focus SBM powered solutions provide a complete business approach to ensuring critical processes are enforced and key stakeholders are kept consistently informed of progress.

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Track 1 ——

Application Definition and Development

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Track 1—Application Definition and Development

May 2nd

8:30–9:00 AM / Registration and Breakfast

9:00–9:30 AM / Mainstage

Welcome: Steve Hammond and Chris Burnett, Account Executives

Micro Focus and Serena®—One Year On: Kevin Parker, VP Solutions Marketing


Title: Micro Focus Enterprise DevOps: Continuous Innovation from Mainframe to Mobile

Archie Roboostoff, Director Product Management Abstract: Among our customer base, especially in the enterprise, DevOps adoption is growing. What may have started out as a need to keep up with more nimble “startup” competition has now matured to a point that large, traditionally slow organizations are at the forefront of DevOps innovation.

Modern delivery environments are vastly more complicated than in the past. Multiple browsers, operating systems, devices, form factor combinations are difficult enough to deal with. Making matters worse, more complicated design and architectural environments – such as containers, microservices, content delivery networks, in memory high speed databases, hybrid infrastructure, and more – are dramatically increasing the burden on Business, Quality, Operations and Release Management teams. This poses a serious business threat as the “delivery gap” between what can be delivered and what customers and the market demand grow further apart.

This talk will introduce and discuss the new Micro Focus DevOps product toolchain which focuses on helping organizations constantly innovate regardless of complexity, operating environment, and scale.

10:30–11:00 AM / Break

11:00–11:50 AMTitle: Dimensions CM Product Roadmap: What’s New and What’s Coming

Ashley Owen, Director of Product Management Abstract: In this session we will share the product Roadmaps and plans for Dimensions CM within Micro Focus Software Development and test. Come hear how innovation and quality are driving investment in product releases, simplifying and speeding the Upgrade process, providing routes to value from prior Dimensions CM releases, while broadening integration and interoperability to encompass Enterprise Agile and DevOps.

12:00–13:00 PM / Lunch / Chesapeake View, Rooftop

13:00–13:50 PMTitle: FUG Interactive CAB

Ashley Owen, Director of Product Management Abstract: Gather your prioritized product requirements, and bring them for an interactive discussion with the Dimensions RM and CM Product teams. Better still enter them into Serena Central Ideas portal and encourage your peers to vote and comment them. Product Management is listening and keen to hear customer enhancement and feature requests, and solicit Federal feedback on prioritized needs. This is your opportunity to influence Product planning, share your ideas and suggestions with the interactive Federal CAB and together we’ll look to highlight the CAB’s top enhancement requests.

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14:00–14:50 PMTitle: Introduction to RM: from Doors to RM

Tom Weatherford, Solutions Architect Abstract: Stories or Requirements? Today projects are required to conform too many different standards. From being agile and doing stories to meeting government needs for formal high level requirements management with traceability from capabilities through engineering artifacts to stories and specifications. Additionally systems are required to meet various contract standards within regulatory traceability and auditability regulations.

In this session, we will review how the new features of Dimensions RM allow you to accomplish these tasks with more automation and simplicity than ever before. We will look at sharing data across these systems. Specifically we will look at the ReqIF import capability as a means to incorporate multiple DOORS modules into Dimensions RM. We will review the concepts of ReqIF and analyze the schema required for a successful data movement. Additionally we will quickly review other capabilities of the Dimensions RM solution.

15:00–15:50 PMTitle: Achieving Continuous Inspection & Continuous Delivery

Rose Wellman, Senior Manager Solutions Architect Abstract: Continuous inspection just as continuous testing and continuous integration is key to achieving Continuous Delivery. Peer-based code reviews, though beneficial overall to the quality of the code base, is not enough thus source code analysis tools need to be part of the “continuous” toolchain.

In this session, we will look at how Dimensions CM improves software quality with its automated experts’ plugins that integrate with popular code analysis tools for the “continuous” toolchain.

16:00–16:50 PMTitle: Embrace and Manage GIT

Felix Dowuona, Support Engineer Abstract: Git is easy to use and has a large community including many of your developers. However it lacks central control, security and processes. We will look at using the Git Connector to allow you to use Dimensions CM as a central vault allowing you to control development teams using Git.

17:00–18:00 PM / Reception and Drinks

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May 3rd


9:00–9:50 AMTitle: DevOps Enabling your CM Practices

Ashley Owen, Director of Product Management Abstract: Modernizing application development and delivery practices has become essential to meet the growing demands for business innovation and agility. Software Change and Configuration Management tools are fundamental in implementing a set of disciplines used to stabilize, track and control the versions and configurations of a set of software items and often includes development change management, defect tracking, peer review, integrated build management, integrated test management, automated deployment and other related processes.

Dimensions CM is an established process-based SCM solution that has been subject to considerable innovation and investment in accommodating today’s Agile and DevOps practices. In this presentation we will walk you through modernizing and enabling your Agile and DevOps CM practices.

10:00–10:50 AMTitle: Integrating RM within your enterprise life cycle (CM and SBM)

Tom Weatherford, Solutions Architect Abstract: In today’s environment where government programs must move faster and evolve out of old slow processes, the need for automation to share information across systems is paramount. Implementing a common program process across multiple disciplines through various systems is simpler than ever before. The challenge is to implement data sharing and integration between various systems in the development lifecycle. From overall program processes and management, through systems engineering, requirements management, agile program planning, story development, development lifecycle, code management, system build, deployment, and system operations the program must provide a common integrated process with a common rhythm.

In this session, we will review the basic integration capabilities of Dimensions RM, Dimensions CM, and Business Manager to provide a foundation for common program practices. We will review in detail how to establish the tight ALM integration between Dimensions RM and Dimensions CM. Then we will explore how to establish a data sharing integration between Business Manager and Dimensions RM using the XML-based integration engine. We will complete the session with a review of concepts that support advanced orchestrations and integrations to meet specific advanced data sharing needs.

11:00–11:50 AMTitle: FUG Interactive CAB: Voting

Ashley Owen, Director of Product Management Abstract: Your prioritized proposals will now be subject to Federal voting. Your opportunity to influence Product management and product teams, makes your case, and win over the support of peers.



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13:00–13:50 PMTitle: Modernize your CM Implementation

Ashley Owen, Director of Product Management Abstract: Are you still hesitant to modernize your CM practices? Don’t be. The benefits of modernizing are extensive, including making your development team more comfortable, improving your efficiency and quality, and catching issues before production. What’s not to like about modernizing?

14:00–14:50 PMTitle: Agile Request Planning using Dimensions CM Pulse

Felix Dowuona, Support Engineer Abstract: Agile development requires different ways of representing work. There are different flavors of Agile processes so this requires some flexibility in the tools you use to manage work. We will look at using Dimensions CM requests to represent stories in Pulse, organizing work in Backlogs, Epics and Features.

15:00–15:50 PMTitle: Upgrading: Lessons Learned from Support

Sam Doncaster and Felix Dowuona, Support Engineers Abstract: Our Support Engineers will outline tools and planning necessary for a successful upgrade of Dimensions CM from release 12.x or 14.x to latest, as well as describing steps that should be performed ahead of time to reduce risk of any problems during upgrade. We will review the most common problems and how these are resolved.


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Track 2 ——

Business and Service Management

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May 2nd










10:30–11:00 AM / Break

11:00–11:50 AMTitle: SBM Roadmap

Dave Easter, Director Product Management Abstract: Micro Focus SBM is alive and well with even more new capabilities. Join David J. Easter, Director of Product Management for SBM & Solutions, to hear about the newest versions of SBM, strategic vision, and innovation on the horizon in future releases.


13:00–13:50 PMTitle: Upgrading to the Latest Version Made Easy

Brock Bland, Director Development Abstract: It used to be that upgrading an enterprise software product like SBM took a dedicated weekend to complete. Those days are thankfully behind us. We can now install maintenance releases in about 20 minutes and upgrade minor versions in a few hours. Brock Bland, Director of Development for SBM, explains how things have changed and covers the methodology used by Serena to upgrade SBM.

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14:00–14:50 PMTitle: Creating Non-standard Features in SBM for Practical Solutions

Kari Clavadetscher, Tony Carrington and Rowshaun Epps, Dovel Technologies Abstract: Many government agencies and private industry companies use SBM to create a range of custom applications that include sophisticated, non-standard SBM features. With traditional development approaches, developing these custom features can be time consuming. SBM provides for the development of robust custom features within SBM allowing developers to provide applications with full-featured functionality without using external development tools. Some examples of non-standard SBM features developed within SBM that we will demonstrate include: implementing Not-out-of-the- box Integrated Workflows, PDF Widgets, Discussion Forums, User Voting, Editable Grids, Generating Tabs as we move through the Workflow, Stop Light Reports and more!

The ability to develop full-featured functionality within SBM allows businesses to deliver robust applications that provide increased value to the organization.

15:00–15:50 PMTitle: Leveraging New Features

Brock Bland, Director Development Abstract: SBM has added lots of new features over the last several releases around performance, usability, and management. This session covers how to leverage new features such as:

• New editable grid

• Re-usable filters for reporting

• New report types

• Customizable quick forms and responsive form design

• Kanban board views

• New backlog functionality

• Work Center search and navigation improvements

• Default views based on groups

16:00–16:50 PMTitle: Building an App in 15 Minutes

Rose Wellman, Senior Manager Solutions Architects Abstract: To survive and thrive, businesses must constantly find ways to innovate and differentiate themselves; to do things better, faster and cheaper. While the demand for custom applications has never been higher, traditional, code-based development approaches simply can’t keep pace. SBM allows businesses to deliver applications faster thus delivering value faster to the organization.

In this session, we will build an application in 15 minutes or less without coding, without the need to rely on a developer.


Track 2—Business and Service Management

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May 3rd


9:00–9:50 AMTitle: Federal User Group (Interactive)

Dave Easter, Director Product Management Abstract: Join your peers to openly discuss and provide feedback about the ideas from Serena Central or other sources. We leave our sales hats outside and you put on your advisor hats. This is your chance to influence what

goes into the next releases of SBM, so don’t let someone else vote for you!

10:00–10:50 AMTitle: Harnessing the Power of SBM: Orchestrations, RESTful Web Services, and Databases

Matt Frauenhoffer, Solutions Architect Abstract: In today’s increasingly connected world, we often need to communicate with many different systems. Some of these systems may be modern applications that provide RESTful Web Services to facilitate that integration. Other systems may use SOAP based Web Services. However, increasingly, customers are challenged with connecting modern applications with legacy applications that have a database but no web services or other method of communication.

This session will be an interactive teaching session, showing attendees how to utilize Orchestrations, RESTful Web Services, and a new piece of SBM functionality introduced in SBM v11.2 to integrate with these legacy systems and leverage the full power of SBM to easily solve these increasingly common use cases.

11:00–11:50 AMTitle: Unraveling Inherited Process Apps: Overrides, Defaults, Scripts, and other issues.

Rob Hulette, Team Lead Customer Care Abstract: Rob Hulette leads a talk on tracking down where settings, overrides, scripts, and defaults have been set by previous admins or developers on an inherited system. Finding why a field has the data in it that it does, why an item routes the way it does, why a field or transition is or is not visible within the interface, and other common issues.


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13:00–13:50 PMTitle: Common Issues and Questions: The Composer and Application Administrator

Peter Yoo and Rob Hulette, Customer Care Abstract: SBM Veterans Rob Hulette and Peter Yoo will go over resolutions, tips, and tricks to common issues encountered in the area of Composer and Application Administrator. Any time balance being applied to questions, discussions, or advanced topics.

14:00–14:50 PMTitle: Common Issues and Questions: The Repository, Configurator, and System Administrator

Peter Yoo and Rob Hulette, Customer Care Abstract: SBM Veterans Peter Yoo and Rob Hulette will go over resolutions, tips, and tricks to common issues encountered in the area of the Repository, Configurator, and System Administrator. Any time balance being applied

to questions, discussions, or advanced topics.

15:00–15:50 PMTitle: Common Issues and Questions: Workcenter, User Interface, and Reporting

Peter Yoo and Rob Hulette, Customer Care Abstract: SBM Veterans Rob Hulette and Peter Yoo will go over resolutions, tips, and tricks to common issues encountered in the area of Workcenter, User Interface, and Reporting. Any time balance being applied to questions,

discussions, or advanced topics.

Track 2—Business and Service Management

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Track 3 ——

Enterprise DevOps and Release Management

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10:30–11:00 AM / Break

11:00 - 11:50 AMTitle: Release Control & Deployment Automation Roadmap: What’s New and What’s Coming

Julian Fish, Director of Product Management Abstract: Join Julian Fish, Director of Product Management for an interactive session on roadmap, vision and strategy for the Micro Focus Release Control and Deployment Automation products. These products drive the DevOps approach of Micro Focus and integrate with a significant number of technologies that are used in the Federal space. This session will discuss plans for the next 12, 18 and 24 months.


13:00 - 13:50 PMTitle: DevOps and Continuous Delivery for Beginners

Matt Frauenhoffer, Sales Engineer Abstract: Organizations of all types are being pressured to deliver value faster with less time and resources, including employee count and budget. Employees are working longer and harder to help achieve this goal. How can you keep up? What is this DevOps thing I keep hearing about? What is Continuous Delivery? What about DevSecOps?

Join this session to learn more about DevOps: what it means to your culture, your tools, and your people. We’ll also have a live demonstration of how the Serena and Micro Focus toolsets can help you achieve higher delivery cadences and delivering on the goals your organization is striving toward: Delivering value faster at lower cost.

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14:00–14:50 PMTitle: Continuous Delivery at Government Scale: Why it’s Different and What’s Important

Julian Fish, Director of Product Management Abstract: Implementing Continuous Delivery and DevOps transformation projects in the Federal, Military and Government sectors is a significantly greater challenge that implementing Continuous Delivery and DevOps approaches in a purist or startup environment. In this session, we will discuss the underlying reasons for these differences, the challenges encountered and how to transition a long-standing legacy applications and projects to Continuous Delivery and DevOps approaches.

15:00–15:50 PMTitle: Automated Testing in a Continuous Delivery Environment

Chris Meranda, Senior Solutions Engineer Abstract: Within software development processes, an evolutionary transformation is occurring from Agile to Continuous Integration (CI) to DevOps. This evolution is encouraging tighter coupling of teams spanning business analysis, development, testing, and operations. As this shift occurs in organizations, QA approaches and methodology must also shift to keep pace with more rapid results and greater visibility into quality metrics.

In this presentation, we will be demonstrating how Micro Focus can provide both test management and automated testing solutions integrated within a DevOps approach. We will demonstrate how testing solutions may integrated within a deployment automation environment, to include functional, regression, and performance testing. Additionally, we will discuss some alternate DevOps toolchains, challenges faced by this environment, and respond to questions commonly encountered with these implementations.

16:00–16:50 PMTitle: FUG Interactive CAB: Direction, Strategy and Voting

Julian Fish, Director of Product Management Abstract: Discussions and voting on features needed in the Federal space for the Release Control and Deployment Automation product line. This session will allow users to proactively determine the future direction of the Release and Automation product lines.


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May 3rd


9:00–9:50 AMTitle: What I Wish I Knew About DA Before My First Implementation

Sam Doncaster, Customer Care Abstract: Whether you are facing a new implementation or rollout of Deployment Automation, or wondering what simple changes may make the system more efficient or easier to manage, this session will prepare you with a solid foundation. We will look at architectural, security and performance considerations along with some guidelines on how to best utilize properties to increase process reuse and decrease maintenance.

10:00–10:50 AMTitle: Dimensions CM & Deployment: Knowing When and How to Use Deployment Automation

Sam Doncaster, Customer Care Abstract: Your source, scripts, build artifacts and perhaps your change requests are all in Dimensions CM. What is the best way to deploy the project to your target environments for development testing, QA, and Production? Beginning with Dimensions CM 14.3 there are new choices of how this may be accomplished. We will review the differences in several different approaches using Dimensions CM and DA.

11:00–11:50 AMTitle: Deployment Automation on the Fast Track: Define and Execute Application Deployment in 10 Minutes

Sam Doncaster, Customer Care Abstract: Deployment does not have to be hard! In this session, we will look at some applications, each with multiple components, such as a business logic component, a database component, reports, or other components. In some cases, these components must be deployed to different target machines from one another. We will put all of this together, create the application, components, processes, etc. and complete the deployment in 10 minutes. After the deployment, we will review the logs and answer any questions. If time allows we will do this for additional applications having differing deployment requirements.



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13:30–14:20 PMTitle: Integrating Your Release Processes with ITSM

Matt Frauenhoffer, Sales Engineer Abstract: Consider this scenario: Your development teams are getting faster and faster with the adoption of Agile and other methodologies. However, as soon as a Release is ready to go to Production, you run in to a roadblock: Operations is not ready for your release. How do we resolve this? How can we provide visibility of upcoming Releases to Operations so they have visibility to what is coming down the pipe? How can we allow Operations to tell Development when they can and cannot deliver due to maintenance windows?

This session will focus on and demonstrate how Serena Release Control, when tied in to your ITSM platform, can provide visibility to your Operations team on upcoming releases as well as providing automated mechanisms to ensure your Change Management processes have been followed before deployment to a controlled environment begins.

14:00–14:50 PMTitle: Mainframe DevOps: Not So Different After All (Part 1)

Matt Frauenhoffer, Sales Engineer and Bob Yates, Sales Engineer Abstract: Adopting a DevOps culture is about achieving agility without disrupting core business processes, regardless of platform. In this 2 part session, we will show how to include the mainframe in your DevOps initiative.

Part 1 will show a mainframe and distributed software change from request through development. Using modern tooling (Micro Focus Enterprise Suite) we will analyze the impact of a mainframe change and develop the code to implement the change. This will be done from a desktop IDE integrating with ChangeMan ZMF. For the distributed change, we use Dimensions CM as the platform.

15:00–15:50 PMTitle: Mainframe DevOps: Not So Different After All (Part 2)

Jeff Jones, Senior Manager Support and Matt Frauenhoffer, Sales Engineer Abstract: Part 2 of this session will highlight the deployment of a mainframe and distributed software change using Release Control. From the perspective of a Release Manager, we will show how to create a Release Package and deploy the changes developed in Part 1. Deployment tasks will be defined to move the ChangeMan ZMF package and the Dimensions CM change to the required testing environments, and then to production following approval by the Release Manager. All with full visibility and traceability from the Release Control user interface.


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