Download the slides from our February 2008 Meeting
Feb2008 – Secure your TFS development environment.zip (800Kb)
Download the slides from our April 2008 Meeting
Apr2008 – Process Enactment with TFS – Process MeNtOR.zip (2Mb)
with Anthony Borton from AB Training
Please join us for an informative breakfast meeting!
In this "roadmap" session, Anthony will discuss upcoming features for VSTS/TFS including the new WIWA CTP, TSWA updates and *possibly* TFS 2008 SP1. He’ll then look at "Rosario", the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and walk through many of the significant new enhancements included in the latest CTP.
If you’re interested in what the future holds for Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server, this is a session not to be missed.
Topic:
VSTS/TFS Roadmap – WIWA, TSWA Updates, TFS 2008 SP1 and what’s coming up in "Rosario"
RSVP:
Reserve your free ticket by registering here
Speaker: Anthony Borton - Team System MVP
Anthony Borton is a Team System MVP based in Brisbane, Australia. He provides consulting and training services in VSTS/TFS 2005 & 2008. He is the president of the QVSTSUG and works closely with the Microsoft Readiness team to deliver training to early adoptors.
Download the slides from our December 2006 Meeting
Dec2006 – Checkin policies.zip (308Kb)
Capture and Manage Requirements with Compuware‘s Optimal Trace interfaced to VSTS
Please join us for an informative breakfast meeting!
Some of the topics covered during this session include:
- Discuss current requirements management trends and issues
- Overview best practice recommendations for capturing, developing and managing the right level of requirements for particular project types
- Look at methods for getting the business and technology communicating in a commonly understandable manner
- Getting useful requirements in the .net environment using OT requirements gathering and the interface to VSTS
- How requirements can flow into User and load testing Managing complex .net testing
- How to find performance problems in .net apps using load testing, code quality tools and post production monitoring tools such as .net analyser
- Reporting on .net applications in the live environment using Agentless and active methods.
Speakers:
Jeff Findlay – Senior Product Specialist, Compuware Corporation
Sean Salisbury – Senior Technical Specialist, Compuware
with William Barthholomew from TechnologyOne
Please join us for an informative breakfast meeting!
In this session we will examine the building blocks and common tasks to integrate with Team Foundation Server via the Team Foundation Server API. Whether you are automating common development tasks, writing custom tools, or adding Team Foundation Server support to your application this session will get you started.
Speaker: William Bartholomew – TechnologyOne
William has been developing software solutions for 9 years using a variety of Microsoft technologies, but primarily the .NET Framework and SQL Server. He was a technical reviewer for the 2nd Edition of Steve McConnell’s Code Complete as well as Volume 2 of Brad and Tamara Abram’s .NET Standard Library Annotated Reference. He is also a member of the Microsoft User Interface Framework Advisory Council. William’s primary focus at TechnologyOne is on improving developer productivity through education, processes and tools, and implementing Visual Studio Team System is a key aspect of this. From time to time you can find him blogging at blog.bartholomew.id.au
Team Foundation Server Principal Group Program Manager
Please join us for an informative breakfast meeting!
In this session Joe Schwetz will share with us how Microsoft use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server internally to develop some of the most complex software today.
Speaker: Joe Schwetz – Team Foundation Server Principal Group Program Manager
Joe Schwetz has 19 years of Microsoft experience. He started out at Microsoft in Applications support, working internally within the Applications Division. From his earliest days at Microsoft he was involved in the “tools” business, teaching courses on and supporting the internal tools used by development teams. These included proprietary bug tracking and version control tools. He spent 2 years in Microsoft IT focusing on the growing dogfood efforts, working closely with Windows NT in the early years, as well as other internal beta programs. He then went back to the tools business working in Product Development Resources and eventually DevDiv as a Group Manager. From there, Joe moved to Windows Division as a Program Manager and was an original member of a team focused on developer productivity. Developing a new version control system and moving all of Windows source code onto it was his focus, he drove the development and eventual companywide adoption. This effort continued on with all of the major divisions at Microsoft adopting it over the next 3 years. Over the past year Joe’s focus has been building a team to drive the internal adoption of TFS. His team does internal consulting with teams across Microsoft, bringing requirements from Microsoft internal customers into the TFS product. Joe is currently a Principal Group Manager of the Solution Providers Team with TFS in Redmond, Washington. Outside of work, you’ll find him in the Cascade Mountains snowboarding in the winter and boating on the Columbia River and Lake Chelan in the summer.
There will be no meeting during January due to many of our members being on holidays and out of town.
with Grant Holliday - Team System MVP
Please join us for an informative breakfast meeting!
In this session you will learn how to secure your Visual Studio Team Foundation Server environment. Grant will share with you an overview of the TFS security model, some problems, how to avoid them and tips for easier administration of TFS in your environment.
Speaker: Grant Holliday – President, Canberra VSTS Users Group & Team System MVP
Grant Holiday is a Team System MVP based in Canberra. He runs the Canberra VSTS Users Group and the very popular OzTFS.com mailing list. Grant has had extensive practical experience installing and maintaining TFS in the field and he shares much of this knowledge with our group during this session.
with Carl Rogers from Object Consulting
Please join us for an informative breakfast meeting!
Process MeNtOR TeamGuide leverages the infrastructure provided by Team Foundation Server to provide a dynamic process composition capability that accelerates team productivity.
This presentation will demonstrate how to define, publish, compose and execute your application development process that fits the size and style of your project – regardless of whether your process is based on SCRUM, Prince2 or CMMI.
The presentation will highlight the new features within Release 2 of Process MeNtOR TeamGuide for VS2008.
Topic:
Improving Team Productivity via Process Enactment with Team Foundation Server
RSVP:
Reserve your free ticket by registering here
Speaker: Carl Rogers – ProcessMeNtOR
Carl Rogers is a Principal Consultant and Process Development Architect for Process MeNtOR®, Object Consulting’s own component-based software development methodology and a strategic piece of intellectual property for the company.
Carl has over 20 years of experience in information management and analysis gained across the finance, defence and commercial airline industries. He has worked with the major software development methodologies and technologies and thrives on aligning business processes to appropriate technologies in order to deliver innovative solutions.
In addition to managing Process MeNtOR, Carl works within Object’s Capability Improvement Division focussing on delivering properly planned, managed and tracked capability improvement initiatives to improve an organisation’s ability to deliver quality software.
Carl holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from the University of Southern Queensland. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM), International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), and an Associate Member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS).
