Great VSTS 2010, Agile, and Scrum Webcasts Available Soon!
August 18th - Agile/Scrum : How to Deliver Business Value Faster, Presented by Riad Bacchus, NeudesicPlease join Neudesic to learn more about Scrum software development methodology and how it can help address the constant struggle to balance the project management constraint profile (time, cost and scope). Scrum reveals a well known but not openly discussed truth in software development: during a project, customers often change their minds about what they want and need (often called requirements churn), and unpredicted challenges cannot be easily addressed in a traditional predictive or waterfall process. Scrum adopts an empirical approach, accepting that the problem cannot be fully understood or defined, focusing instead on maximizing the team's ability to deliver quickly and respond to emerging requirements. Tues., August 18, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
August 18th - A First Look at Team System 2010 - Tester EditionVisual Studio Team System 2010 Test Edition and the accompanying, standalone Microsoft Test & Lab Manager (MTLM) significantly extend the capabilities of the 2008 version and bring into existence some new capabilities. First and foremost is the support for manual, user acceptance testing. The new tools will enable additional tester roles to be part of the team and the application lifecycle. The good news for these testers is that they will not be using the (complicated) Visual Studio IDE, but rather a new, lightweight WPF application. In addition, the tester benefits from being able to gather diagnostic information when running tests and automatically adding this information to a bug work item. The tester can collect details of the actions that are performed when running a manual test case. These details can be used the next time to fast forward manual testing. In the 2010 version all testing artifacts are part of your team project. No more random documents on the portal, but rather the plans, suites, configurations, and cases are stored in Team Foundation Server. Join Accentient for a drill-down into the new features and capabilities of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test Edition: - Defining acceptance criteria - Test case management - Creating test plans, test suites, and test configurations - Creating and running a manual test - Collect diagnostic (system impact) data during a test run - Recording a manual test for playback - Creating automated (code) UI tests Tuesday, August 18th 2009 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM Mountain Time
August 20th - A First Look at Team System 2010 - General OverviewMicrosoft has been working hard on their next generation of Visual Studio Team System. The 2010 version will deliver new capabilities for everyone on a project, including architects, developers, project managers and testers. Since beta 1 released, the experts at Accentient have been heads-down, putting it to the test, and demonstrating it to our clients. We would like to share some of our insight with you. Join Accentient for a tour of the marquee features and improvements found in Visual Studio Team System 2010: - Separate and improved install and configuration process - Team project collections - Architecture Explorer - UML support - Hierarchical work items - Improved test case management - Source control branch visualization - Workflow-based build - Test and Lab Manager - UI testing
Tuesday, August 18th 2009 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM Mountain Time
September 15th - Agile/Scrum : How to Deliver Business Value Faster, Presented by Riad Bacchus, NeudesicPlease join Neudesic to learn more about Scrum software development methodology and how it can help address the constant struggle to balance the project management constraint profile (time, cost and scope). Scrum reveals a well known but not openly discussed truth in software development: during a project, customers often change their minds about what they want and need (often called requirements churn), and unpredicted challenges cannot be easily addressed in a traditional predictive or waterfall process. Scrum adopts an empirical approach, accepting that the problem cannot be fully understood or defined, focusing instead on maximizing the team's ability to deliver quickly and respond to emerging requirements. Agile Scrum Tues., September 15, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time |