This month we have David Cook delivering an engaging session that he recently presented at the Agile NZ Conference in New Zealand.

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Abstract:

How do you take a traditional waterfall company with software products and move from monolithic 12-18 month release cycles down to monthly releases? In this session we will look at a continuous improvement program from waterfall to lean with a goal of continuous delivery. We will look at the challenges faced, lessons learned and the success stories in how we introduced lean practices into a waterfall organisation from the ground floor.

Speaker BIO:

David is a Microsoft Certified Trainer at TechnologyOne, one of Australia’s largest ISV’s. Over the past 15 years, David has been working with development teams in many large organisations within Australia and the UK in a range of industries such as Government, Banking and Finance. Most recently David has been promoting software craftsmanship and the adoption of agile development methodologies within TechnologyOne to streamline and continually improve their application life-cycle management processes.

Date: Friday, 5th April 2013

Time: 7:30am Breakfast – 8:00am Presentation – 9:00am Finish

Where: Microsoft Office – South Stradbroke Island room Level 28, 400 George Street Brisbane

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Sponsor – Enhance ALM Pty Ltd

This month’s meeting sponsor is Enhance ALM who have a number of TFS 2012 training courses coming up in Brisbane next month. In addition to the normal classroom experience, all of these courses can be attended “online” while still offering the full interactive training experience. Book now to get a 15% early bird discount.

MAY 2013

6th & 7th – Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012

15th & 16th – Test Automation, Web Performance and Load Testing with Visual Studio 2012

20th & 21st – Managing Projects with Visual Studio 2012

22nd & 23rd – TFS 2012 Developer Fundamentals

This month, user group member Damian Brady is giving us a look at some advice on how to start making your processes work for you.

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Abstract:

A successful process is not one size fits all; every team and project is different.  Scrum may be an awesome framework for managing your development process, but it should only be a starting point.

In this session, we’ll look at when and how to inspect and adapt your own process to increase the effectiveness of your team.  We’ll look at examples of projects that have deviated from the norm, the reasons for change, and why they succeeded or failed.  Finally, we’ll look at how you can apply these learnings to your own team process.

Learn how to excommunicate yourself from the cargo-cult and starting making your process work for you.

Speaker BIO:

Damian is a Solution Architect and State Manager for SSW Brisbane. Outside his day job, he also runs the Brisbane .Net User Group (formerly Qld MSDN User Group) and the yearly DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Brisbane conference.

His main passions are helping Scrum teams run smoothly and effectively using TFS, and delivering great ASP.NET MVC web applications.

Date: Friday, 1st February 2013

Time: 7:30am Breakfast – 8:00am Presentation – 9:00am Finish

Where: Microsoft Office – North Stradbroke Island room Level 28, 400 George Street Brisbane

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This month, user group member David Cook is giving us a look at some governance around customisation in TFS.

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Abstract:

One of the very first features of TFS has been the ability to customise the process template to suit the needs of your teams. Unfortunately, many of these customisations are performed without the proper analysis on the needs of the teams, or the future maintainability of the process. Also, many find the next time they upgrade TFS, they are missing out on all the new cool features.

In this session, we will take a look at some of the customisations we can apply to TFS and not just how to implement those customisations, but how you can apply governance to these customisations.

Speaker BIO:

David is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and is the Lead Training Consultant for TechnologyOne – one of Australia’s largest ISV’s. Over the past 15 years, David has been working with development teams in many large organisations within Australia and the UK in a range of industries such as Government, Banking and Finance to promote software craftsmanship and the adoption of agile development methodologies to streamline and continually improve the application lifecycle management process within those teams.

Date: Friday, 7th December 2012

Time: 7:30am Breakfast – 8:00am Presentation – 9:00am Finish

Where: Microsoft Office – South Stradbroke Island room Level 28, 400 George Street Brisbane

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This month, user group vice president Richard Angus is giving us a look at a great new feature include din TFS 2012.

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Abstract:

In this session Richard will demonstrate PreEmptive Analytics Community Edition for Team Foundation Server. This is a third party tool created by PreEmptive which allows you to gain insight into errors experienced by your customers. By instrumenting your application for analytics, you’ll be able to see these exceptions in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 so you can easily triage them right alongside your bugs. Exceptions are analyzed, correlated, and distilled into a set of “production incidents” based on the rules and operational thresholds you specify.

Speaker BIO:

Richard Angus is an ALM consultant and trainer based in Brisbane, Queensland. He has worked for a number of organisations, including banks and major international IT Consulting companies such as Unisys where he was involved in small and large scale projects across Australia. He has helped a number of organisations upgrade to TFS from earlier products including a large VSS migration project for a large QLD government department. He is passionate about ALM practices, development and architecture, and currently provides consultancy services to organisations looking to improve their application architecture and development processes. He is currently focusing on TFS integration into SharePoint development and Dynamics AX development environments..

Date: Friday, 5th October 2012

Time: 7:30am Breakfast – 8:00am Presentation – 9:00am Finish

Where: Microsoft Office – South Stradbroke Island room Level 28, 400 George Street Brisbane

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This month, user group president Anthony Borton is presenting a session on using Microsoft’s hosted TFS Service.

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Abstract:

You’ve heard about the brand new Team Foundation Service that brings together Team Foundation Server and Windows Azure, and now it’s time to find out how to get started. In this talk we start you off with creating your account, setting up projects, issue tracking, and much more. We also show you how Team Foundation Service differs from Team Foundation Server and what that means to you.

Speaker BIO:

Anthony Borton is the lead ALM consultant and trainer for Enhance ALM. He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM as well as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Anthony is an engaging speaker with experience presenting at conferences around the world. He has over 20 years’ experience helping organizations delivery better quality software. Anthony is the author of a number of courses focusing on Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server which are delivered internationally. You can find the courses at http://www.alm-training.com

Date: Friday, 7th September 2012

Time: 7:30am Breakfast – 8:00am Presentation – 9:00am Finish

Where: Microsoft Office – South Stradbroke Island room Level 28, 400 George Street Brisbane

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This month we have Adam Stephensen, flying up from Sydney to present on Continuous Delivery using Visual Studio and TFS. After the caning Adam Cogan gave his code at last month’s meeting, I hope Adam Stephensen can find a suitable way to repay the favour . RSVP for the meeting.

Abstract:

Is deployment costing you too much? Deploying early and often delivers business value fast, generates early customer feedback and ensures "Go Live" day end with Champagne, not a sleepless night. Discover how TFS makes continuous deployment easy, check out building in the cloud with TFS Build on Azure and learn why continuous delivery and deploying with TFS is an investment you should be making today.

Speaker BIO:

Adam is a Software Architect at SSW. He loves delivering high quality, scalable, database-driven enterprise solutions. He has a passion for Scrum, Continuous Delivery, and software craftsmanship. This has led him to mentor and contribute to many .Net projects across a broad range of technologies. Adam is currently excited by the multitude of new tools and platforms coming from Microsoft, especially Visual Studio 2012, TFS Preview and MVC 4. He can’t wait to get his hands on a Windows Phone 8 device.

Date:
Friday, 6th July 2012

Time:
7:30am Breakfast – 8:00am Presentation – 9:00am Finish

Where:
Microsoft Office – South Stradbroke Island room
Level 28, 400 George Street
Brisbane

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