Mike Vincent's Blog : Accentient

Professional Scrum Developer Training – June 21-25

mikev — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:32:00 GMT

I will be presenting Accentient’s Professional Scrum Developer course June 21-25 at the Microsoft Technology Center, Irvine. CA. In cooperation with Microsoft, Ken Schwaber, and Scrum.org, and other industry subject matter experts, Accentient has created the first-of-its-kind, Scrum Developer course. Along with the ScrumMaster and Product Owner programs that are available, the Scrum Developer course is intended for the third, and most important role in Scrum: the Team.

Attendees will be taught how to use modern engineering practices to develop an increment of completed, potentially shippable functionality. They will do so within the Scrum process, working within self-organizing, cross-functional teams, doing iterative, incremental development.

5 intense days of training and hands-on
Team-based training - work as a Scrum team
Hands-on Visual Studio 2010
Work as a self-organizing/managing team
Learn and use TDD, CI, and refactoring
Learn new communication techniques
Assess yourself before and after class
Identify and eliminate team dysfunctions
Improve your game of Scrum!

"Scrum teams are expected to build functionality every iteration. Accentient's Professional Scrum Developer course shows how to meet these demands using modern engineering practices and tools, optimizing everyone's investment in development. Accentient's courseware is an accelerant to Agile, Scrum, and the benefits of the software development profession." - Ken Schwaber

For more information and to register go to http://accentient.com/scrum.aspx.

SoCal Team System off to a great start

mikev — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:25:00 GMT

On June 23^rd, we kicked off the inaugural meeting of SoCal Team System. After some opening comments from William Salazar, Microsoft Developer Technology Specialist, we had a great presentation from Richard Hundhausen on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Best Practices. A big thanks for Richard coming down from Boise to help us get this new group kicked off right! Here is the download for his presentation and bookmarks.

Announcing the launch of the Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group!

mikev — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:04:00 GMT

The SoCal Team System User Group will be launching on June 23. We'll be meeting in Irvine at QuickStart Intelligence 16815 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100. Pizza and networking starts at 6:30 pm and the meeting starts at 7:00. If you are in the Southern California area, I hpoe you can join us. Please RSVP to mikev@mvasoftware.com if you plan to attend so we can be sure to have enough food and drink available.

SoCal Team System is a user group focused on software application lifecycle management. We provide a forum for learning about, exchanging ideas, and using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. If you are new to VSTS, just checking it out, want to learn more, or an experienced user wanting to share your knowledge, please join us.

Visual Studio Team System provides multi-disciplined team members with an integrated set of tools for architecture, design, development, database development, testing and building of applications. Team members can continuously collaborate and utilize a complete set of tools and guidance at every step of the application life cycle.

Come learn about Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Best Practices with Team System author, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Richard Hundhausen.

For more details visit the group's web site at http://www.socalteamsystem.org.

VSTS Web-Cast on SearchWinDevelopment.com

mikev — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:24:00 GMT

On May 20^th, Richard Hundhausen and I had the pleasure of recording a couple of web casts on Visual Studio Team System. My session focused on why VSTS is a good investment in today’s challenged economy and Rich focused on developing with VSTS. We had a great time with the TechTarget folks shooting the video. They should be on the http://SearchWinDevelopment.TechTarget.com site soon.

Accentient VSTS blog aggregator

mikev — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:57:00 GMT

Accentient has just refreshed their web site that now includes a cool new community page featuring a VSTS blog aggregator.