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Team System Big Event

Today’s AgendaSTART END SESSION

8:00 AM 8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM 9:30 AM Development Best Practices & How Microsoft Helps

9:30 AM 9:45 AM Break

9:45 AM 10:45 AM Test Driven Development: Improving .NET Application Performance & Scalability10:45 AM 11:00 AM Break

11:00 AM 12:00 PM "It Works on My Machine!" Closing the Loop Between Development & Testing

12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM 2:00 PM Treating Databases as First-Class Citizens in Development

2:00 PM 2:15 PM Break

2:15 PM 3:15 PM Architecture without Big Design Up Front

3:15 PM 3:30 PM Break

3:30 PM 4:30 PM "Bang for Your Buck" Getting the Most out of Team Foundation Server

4:30 PM 5:00 PM Close & Giveaways!

Did you Know..

• Hostess Twinkies are 68% air• 40% of Americans have never been to the

dentist• December 29th is National Whiners Day

Steve Lange (“Slang”) is a Developer Technology Specialist for Microsoft. Steve spends a typical day educating customers on high-end development tools such as Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server. His goal is to put Team Suite on everyone’s desktop.

Based in Denver, Steve covers the “Desert Mountain” area of the US, including Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas.

Prior to Microsoft, Steve was a systems engineer at Borland Software for 6+ years specializing in SCM & RM tools.

The only way Steve will leave Microsoft is by force.

Steve LangeMicrosoft

Session:Development Best Practices & How Microsoft Helps

Jerry is a Principal Architect for nixoncorp, a Denver-based consulting firm focused on workflow automation and enabling ISVs on the Microsoft platform.

Jerry recently led several $1M+, award-winning VSTO3, WCF, and SmartClient solutions innovatively leveraging Business Process Management systems.

Since 1995, Jerry’s true geek-passion has been around SQL Server query performance. He has spoken at many events, lives in Conifer, Colorado, and is father to three daughters (under 6) who are slowly learning the C# flow control syntax. :)

Jerry NixonNixon Corp.

Session:Test Driven Development: Improving .NET Application Performance & Scalability

Joe Shirey is a Senior Architect Evangelist for Microsoft based in Denver, Colorado.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe was a Vice President at Interlink Group where he was responsible for services delivery for their largest market.

In the past, Joe was a Microsoft Regional Director, a member of the Microsoft Architect Advisory Board, and sat on the .NET Partner Advisory Council.

Joe has more than 18 years of hands-on technical and functional experience in project management, systems analysis, design, development and implementation. Joe attained his Microsoft Certified Architect in Solutions in 2005.

Joe ShireyMicrosoft

Session:"It Works on My Machine!" Closing the Loop Between Development & Testing

"If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0”

Rob Bagby (“Bags”) is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. He has been touting Microsoft technologies for better than a decade. Microsoft, however, has only been paying Rob for these services for the past 2 years. Rob has been invited to speak at various national and international technical conferences such as PDC, TechEd, DevConnections and VSLive (places he is not welcome are too numerous to list).

Rob plans to continue evangelizing Microsoft technologies until he retires or is otherwise "asked to leave".Rob Bagby

Microsoft

Session:Treating Databases as First-Class Citizens in Development

Peter Provost is a Program Manager for Visual Studio Team System Architecture Edition where he focuses on code-centric modeling and product extensibility. Prior to that, Peter managed the patterns & practices development team at Microsoft where they created Guides, Software Factories and Application Blocks like Enterprise Library and the Composite User Interface Application Block.

Before joining Microsoft, he was a consultant in the Rocky Mountain region focusing on Microsoft technologies and agile software development techniques. He has spoken at a number of conferences and user groups and has written articles on test-driven development, ASP.NET, Web services and other topics.

Peter ProvostMicrosoft

Session:Architecture without Big Design Up Front

Ted is currently Director of Strategic Solutions for Configuresoft, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV Partner. At Configuresoft, Ted is primarily responsible for the Configuration Intelligence Analytics product, which applies Business Intelligence concepts to IT operational data to provide deep insight into IT Operations.

Prior to Configuresoft, Ted was a consultant and trainer and worked with many Fortune 1000 clients to deliver dynamic, data-driven solutions using Microsoft SQL Server and the Microsoft suite of development products. Ted has worked with SQL Server since version 1.0 (Yes, there really was a 1.0 version) on OS/2. Ted has been involved with the Visual Studio Team System suite of products since the beginning, and has focused heavily on Agile Database development methods using MSF and "Data Dude".

Ted MaloneConfiguresoft, Inc.

Session:“Bang for Your Buck: Getting the Most out of Team Foundation Server

“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.”

- George Carlin

Did you Know..

• World’s best selling cookie: Oreo• Most toilets flush in E flat• “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s shoes are in the

Baseball Hall of Fame

“In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.”

- Author Unknown

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”

- Rich Cook

"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

- Leonard Brandwein

“A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.”

Tools Offers and Promotions

1) Free Dev/.NET Online Training from InnerWorkings

• 500 hrs of WCF, WPF, WF, C#, VB9, LINQ, CLR, AJAX, and more• Each drill represents 3 hrs. Limited number of registration keys available

2) ALM Assessment Program

• Helps adoption of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) by identifying bottle-necks in development cycle, prioritize areas of improvement, and determining roadmap for incremental approach to phase in new practices on a project-by-project basis

• Typically takes about 3 days• Microsoft Funded

3) Competitive Tool Upgrade

• Upgrade any dev tool to Visual Studio Standard and Visual Studio Professional at upgrade price

"If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise."

“There are two types of people in the world: those who divide people into two types, and those who don’t.”

- Barth’s Distinction

“KENNY!”

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”

- Jeremy S. Anderson

“Better to be a geek than an idiot."

“If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.”

Did you Know..

• Do you know how long it takes Earth to go around the sun? 46% of American’s don’t.

• There are 132 Hawaiian islands• Snapping your fingers is called a fillip

Did you Know..

• There are 412 doors in the White House• The only crime defined in the Constitution?

Treason• Alaska has the northern-,western-, and

eastern-most points in the US

“Over 2800 baud served”

“I met this beautiful girl at a barbeque, which was exciting. Blond, I think – I don’t know. Her hair was on fire. And all she talked about was herself. You those kind of girls. It was just me, me, me. Help me. Put me out.”

- Gary Shandling

"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.“

– Bruce Brown

“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.”

- Ralph Johnson

Visual Studio Team SystemApplication Lifecycle Management (ALM) Solution

“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”

- Edsger Dijkstra

"There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.“

- unknown

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand trinary, those that don't, and those that confuse it with binary.”

"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.”

Microsoft ContactsDeveloper Tools

Eric Strait• Developer Sales

Specialist• Enterprise Customers• estrait@microsoft.co

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John Sanderson• Developer Sales

Specialist• Small & Midsize

Customers• johnsand@microsoft.

com

Steve Lange• Developer

Technology Specialist• All Customers• stevenl@microsoft.c

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