Meeting Details
Presentation: Getting Agile with Team Foundation Server 2010
This presentation will demonstrate a complete two week scrum iteration from the planning meeting to development, testing, and bug fixing to deployment utilizing the features found in Team System 2010. New features include gated check-ins for Continuous Integration (CI), Test-Driven Development (TDD) improvements, Product Backlog enhancements including hierarchical views and support for multiple teams to work from a single backlog. The presentation also demonstrates the enhancements to the TFS Portal and Web Access to support Agile planning and displaying graphs such as burn-down charts. Each walk through includes a live demonstration of the feature in Team Foundation Server 2010.
Speaker: Mike Douglas, Deliveron Consulting Services
Mike Douglas is a Solution Consultant at Deliveron Consulting Services where he provides end-to-end solutions and TFS installation, configuration, and custom development for clients. He has over 11 years experience building enterprise level applications on a variety of .NET technologies including WCF, Web Services, ASP.NET, Disconnected Smart Clients and Data Synchronization, BizTalk, and Team Foundation Server. Mike enjoys trying to keep up with the constant change and evolution of .NET. Mike is an experienced presenter having spoken at the Heartland Developers Conference and several Omaha .NET User Group meetings on CSLA.NET, Subsonic, and TFS. He also spoke at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference on a GIS integration project he helped lead. Mike actively maintains the open source project, Team Deploy, on CodePlex for deploying MSIs using Team Foundation Server. Mike also enjoys sharing his experiences in Code Generation, CSLA.NET, and TFS on his blog at www.CodeSmartNotHard.com.
Time and Location
This month's meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 24th, at 6:00pm at:
Farm Credit Services of America
5015 South 118th Street
Omaha, NE 68137
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For those of you new to the user group, park in the east parking lot and come in the double doors on the east side of the building. The doors are locked so there will be someone attending the door to let you into the building where you can sign in and pick up your visitor badge.
NOTE: The meeting will start at 6:00pm - the food will arrive about 15 to 20 minutes before the presentation starts. So arrive a little early to enjoy some food and mingling.
Call for Topics and Speakers
As a community-based user group, we encourage involvement from our members (whether it's presenting on a topic, providing topic suggestions, or supporting the group by attending the sessions). If you have a topic that you would like to present during a future Omaha Team System User Group meeting, please let me know. We are always in need of speakers and topics.
Please RSVP to Jeff Bramwell if you plan on attending or have any questions.