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The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010

The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010 This event would be of interest to all that want to learn more about Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management. I will be presenting at the San Diego and Los Angeles events and John Miller who helps run SoCal Team System...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Wed, Feb 24 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server, The Ultimate Event
Visual Studio 2010 ALM Pricing

I'm frequently asked pricing questions for Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management products. As always, my response is check with your Microsoft sales representative for your specific case. Here's the suggested retail pricing. If you are renewing your MSDN Subscription, timing may be...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Feb 6 2010
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server
SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp, January 30 and 31, Cal State Fullerton

The next SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp will be January 31 and 31 at Cal State University Fullerton. Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Mon, Dec 21 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Code Camp, Scrum for Team System, Scrum, Codecamp
Visual Studio 2010 Release Pushed Back

Microsoft wants to be sure they get it right with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET4. Feedback they've received from Beta 2 is being listened to and acted upon. In general, the new features are great but work is needed on performance. To that end, the release is being pushed back a few weeks and we'll...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Dec 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Brian Harry, Visual Studio 2010, Scott Guthrie
PDC Birds of a Feather Follow-up

I'm a month late following up on PDC but it was a real success in my opinion. I had a great time starting off with Monday's pre-conference hosting an MVP table at the lunch break to discuss the new Visual Studio configurations and deeper integration of ALM. On Tuesday, David Starr and I hosted...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Dec 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, INETA, Birds of a Feather, PDC, Agile, Scrum
Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Team Development for All

This was a busy week for new stuff Microsoft. Wednesday Oct 21 was the official release day for Windows 7. It also was the first day of public availability for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 from MDSN downloads. You can download Beta 2 here http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Oct 24 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS 2010, Windows 7
A Lap Around VSTS 2010 at SoCal Team System

The July 28 th meeting of SoCal Team System featured my presentation of “A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2010.” Here is the download for my presentation . We had a great turnout with lots of discussion. We were able to cover TFS administration, team collections, the Architecture Explorer...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, Aug 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS 2010, SoCal Team System
Scrum and User Experience Presentation, LA Scrum Club

Last night, Patrick Neeman and I did a tag-team presentation on Scrum and User Experience at the LA Scrum Club . The turnout was good and most importantly helped make the presentation an engaging conversation. The presentation ended shortly after 9 but I stayed after almost to 11 with follow-up discussion...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Thu, Jul 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, TDD, User Experience, User Groups, Scrum for Team System, Agile, Scrum, Usability, Testing
Team System presentations from Rock & Roll Code Camp

Here are the links for the slide decks from my Team System presentations at the San Diego code camp on June 27: · A Lap Around VSTS 2010 · Maximizing Your Investment with VSTS 2008 The “Lap Around VSTS 2010” turned out to be a bit more challenged than I bargained for. I was...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, Jun 28 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS 2010, Codecamp
Announcing the launch of the Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group!

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...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Fri, Jun 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, Richard Hundhausen, User Groups, Team Foundation Server, Accentient, VSTS 2010, SoCal Team System
VSTS Web-Cast on SearchWinDevelopment.com

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...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, May 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, Team Foundation Server, Accentient, Agile
SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp June 27 and 28, University of California San Diego

San Diego Code Camp is again coming up June 27 – 28 at US San Diego Extension. Always a great get-together, it again includes a Saturday evening dinner and rock-n-roll entertainment. As of today, there are 67 sessions registered. Check it out at http://www.socalcodecamp.com . I’ll be presenting...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, May 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Code Camp, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, Team Foundation Server, VSTS 2010
VSTS Big Event Wrap-up

The Irvine Team System Big Event went off successfully April 30. A big thanks to all who attended. I really enjoyed the opportunity to deliver “It Works on My Machine!" Closing the Loop Between Development & Testing” and “Architecture without Big Design Up Front.”You...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Thu, May 7 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Architecture, ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, VSTS Big Event, Testing
Make Agile Usability Count in your SDLC

A good friend of mine, Patrick Neeman, has a great web site dedicated to user experience, Usability Counts . Recently he has been focusing on Agile development and why it works for User Experience. Check out “ Seven Reasons Why Agile and Scrum Works for Web User Experience .” On March 31...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Apr 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, User Experience, Agile, Scrum, Usability
User Groups and Team System

Since the beginning of the year, I have done several user group presentations on Visual Studio Team System 2010. February 12 at SouthBay .NET and February 19 at SoCal .NET Architecture were warm-ups for the MSDN Developers Conference in San Francisco on February 23. March 10 was Orange County .NET and...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Tue, Mar 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, Architecture, ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS Big Event, Test

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