With the new economic era upon us, the common themes seem to be around doing more with less, leveraging what you already have, and making smart investments with measurable ROI. We have heard lots of questions in recent days around why to move from Visual Studio Team System 2005 to 2008 and if there is a way to leverage VSTS 2008 to lower the cost of software development. For our early adopters, we are hearing questions around if VSTS 2010 is really going to change the software development world that we all know so well.
In this sea of questions during these uncertain times, our goal is to help bring clarity, answer questions, connect resources, provide information, and be of service. With that, we have built a full schedule of free training and community events, hoping that we will have something for everyone. Don’t see what you’re looking for? Let me know!
CONNECTING THE DOTS: 5 PART VSTS MINI-SERIES
premiering on February 10, 2009
Migrating from VSTS 2005 to 2008
Learning About VSTS 2008 Developer Edition
Learning About VSTS 2008 Tester Edition
Learning About VSTS 2008 Database Professional Edition
Visual Studio Team System 2010 Highlights
LIVE EVENTS (West Coast) – California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska
Deep Dive into VSTS: Illuminating the Possibilities (Mountain View, San Francisco)
Team System in the Real World (Portland, Olympia, Kirkland)
TRAINING
Building Applications with Visual Studio Team System 2008 (4-day training class in Kirkland)
OTHER EVENTS
Northwest Cadence is looking forward to delivering a full day pre-conference VSTS training session at DevConnections and TechEd 2009. If you are planning to attend DevConnections and/or TechEd, come visit us at the PreCon or during one of our sessions during the conferences. We always like seeing familiar faces!
EVENT ABSTRACTS & REGISTRATION INFORMATION
CONNECTING THE DOTS: 5 PART VSTS MINI-SERIES
This 5-part series will bring you from VSTS 2005 to VSTS 2010 with lots in between. Bring your questions!
This series is an interactive, casual, and informative way for you to talk with your peers and a couple of VSTS MVPs, ask the hard questions, and learn what others are doing – all around Visual Studio Team System 2008 and 2010. We’re looking forward to having you! The more, the merrier.
February 10, 2009: Migrating from Visual Studio Team System 2005 to 2008 (part 1 of 5): http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134756
February 24, 2009: Learning about VSTS 2008 Developer Edition (part 2 of 5): http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134757
March 10, 2009: Learning about VSTS 2008 Tester Edition (part 3 of 5): http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134758
March 24, 2009: Learning about VSTS 2008 Database Professional Edition (part 4 of 5): http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134759
April 7, 2009: Visual Studio Team System 2010 Highlights (part 5 of 5): http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134760
LIVE EVENTS
Deep Dive into VSTS: Illuminating the Possibilities
More about Visual Studio Team System
VSTS is an integrated software development platform used to build the mission-critical applications that businesses depend on. It extends Visual Studio's integrated and productive experience from the developer to the entire development team. VSTS does this by delivering role-based tools for architects, developers, testers, database professionals, and project managers.
Why Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) can help drive predictability, visibility, and control into your software development process, while remaining agile. It can also illuminate the key metrics that help make improvements possible.
Team System Applied
During this deep-dive event, you will learn best practices through the actual use of Team System and will walk away with an understanding of how VSTS can illuminate the possibilities for your software development team. We will dive deep into VSTS, walking you all the way through the development of an application - from planning to coding to system build and test. Along the way, we'll demonstrate best practices with VSTS allowing you and your teams to be more effective.
Should I dive deep?
If you're already using Team System, you'll come away with best practices and ideas for leveraging the tool in ways you may not have thought of before. If you've never used Team System, this presentation will provide a powerful introduction to the possibilities.
February 11, 2009: Mountain View, CA: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134300
February 12, 2009: San Francisco, CA: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134301
Team System in the Real World
This training event is designed to provide practical and implementable ways to attack common issues that plague development organizations today. See how various organizations with various problems leveraged Visual Studio Team System to make it work harder and smarter for them, solving real business problems and improving their Team System return on investment.
During this session, we will delve into real business problems of real organizations and see how Team System made practical solutions happen. With each example, we will explore the root cause, identify the possible solution, and demonstrate the implementation that solved the problem.
Sounds great, but how can I be sure this session will cover practical and implementable VSTS solutions that address our business problem? During this session, we will also look at possible solutions to related problems provided to us by attendees prior to the pre-conference presentation. Early registrants will be given the option of submitting more details on their software development or Team System problems.
Send your problem(s) to us and we may incorporate your submission into our presentation!
March 13, 2009: Olympia: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134771
March 17, 2009: Portland: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134772
March 20, 2009: Kirkland: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134773
TRAINING
March 9-12, 2009: Kirkland: 4-day VSTS Training
Building Applications with VSTS 2008
The focus of this course is on the effective use of Team System to improve an organization’s application management lifecycle. Software teams will learn not only how to use Team System effectively, but how to use Team System to improve their software development process. Developers will learn improve the quality of their code and speed development. Testers will learn to validate code quality and track test cases. Project managers will learn to use Team System to bring their projects under control. Configuration Managers will learn the best practices around branching strategies and will learn to create a tailored software configuration management strategy. As a team, you will learn how to use TFS to increase traceability, improve the quality of your code and ease the process of releasing your applications.
For more information or to register, please contact Lori Borg (206.947.0967 / lori.borg@nwcadence.com)
OTHER EVENTS
DevConnections Visual Studio and .NET Connections
TechEd 2009 Pre-Conference Seminars & Technical Tracks
