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*NEW* Featured Events: SolidQ Training Courses

SSW and SolidQ offer premium public and private SQL Server Training and Business Intelligence Training. These courses are running throughout Australia (Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, and Perth), New Zealand (Auckland) and world-wide. SolidQ have developed a full spectrum of courses for developers, database administrators and business intelligence professionals working with Microsoft SQL Server and the Microsoft data platform.

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Accelerated SQL Server 2012 Integration Services - 4 Days

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Brisbane 9 JULY 2012
Melbourne 16 JULY 2012
Sydney 6 AUGUST 2012

Microsoft BI Immersion: SQL Server 2012 and Office 2010 - 5 Days

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Melbourne 23 JULY 2012
Sydney 30 JULY 2012

Optimization/Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting - 5 Days

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Sydney 20 AUGUST 2012

T-SQL Fundamentals - 4 Days

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Melbourne 30 JULY 2012
Brisbane 6 AUGUST 2012
Sydney 13 AUGUST 2012

Featured Video:
Scrum at Microsoft: See the TFS Agile Team do a Daily Scrum (aka Stand Up)

Scrum is a hot topic of discussion for many IT professionals.

The Scrum Guide defines the Daily Scrum (aka Daily Stand-Up) but does not prescribe a way to implement it. Every team is different and not everyone implements the Daily Scrum in the same way.

In this video see a team at Microsoft (who are building the Agile project management tools used by millions of developers), perform their Daily Scrum. Commentary provided by Adam Cogan.

In the video, you will see:

• Tips on how to perform a good Daily Stand Up
• How the members of the Scrum Team use technology (www.tfspreview.com) in their Daily Scrum
• Why the teams do their Daily Stand Ups in a hallway
• The role of the Scrum Master and the Product Owner
• Bonus - Adam discusses the Product Owners' decision to move an item off the Sprint and swap it with another item

See the rule on Daily Stand-ups

Watch the video on Daily standups

3 Day Scrum Training - Intensive Developer Course

New 3 day format! Intensive 3-day Professional Scrum Developer course Cost: $2995 +GST PP Brisbane, Melbourne, San Francisco, Beijing, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Amsterdam, Cologne, Stuttgardt/Munich, Zagreb

Professional Scrum Developer courses teach students how to work in a team, using modern software engineering practices, to develop an increment of potentially releasable functionality using a specific technology platform. Students learn to do so within the Scrum framework doing iterative incremental development.

Classes are exercise-driven, with students working in self-organizing teams to develop “done” increments from Product Backlog items.

Course at a Glance

This 3-day Professional Scrum Developer .NET course is a mix of lecture, demonstration, group discussion, simulation, and hands-on software development. The bulk of the course will be spent working as a team on a case study application delivering increments of new functionality in mini-sprints. Here is the course at a glance:

Note: Scrum fundamentals are not covered in this 3-day course. If you are not experienced with Scrum fundamentals, the 5 day course is still available.

Scrum either through working on a Scrum Team or through taking part in a Professional Scrum Foundations course.

Sydney 16 APR 2012		Perth 24 APR 2012
Canberra 8 MAY 2012		Adelaide 14 MAY 2012
Melbourne 23 MAY 2012		Brisbane 5 JUNE 2012
*NEW* Amsterdam, NL 3 JULY 2012		*NEW* Cologne, DE 10 JULY 2012
*NEW* Stuttgart/Munich, DE 17 JULY 2012		*NEW* Zagreb, HR 24 JULY 2012

*NEW* SharePoint 101 for Business Webinar -
What every business person should know about SharePoint 2010

Tuesday 27th March 2012 11.00am - 12.00pm Cost: No Charge

SharePoint 2010 is a very powerful collaboration tool and one of Microsoft's most popular business products. Many business people have heard about SharePoint but struggle to understand exactly how SharePoint can improve their business processes. Decision makers, who are interested in using SharePoint, can find it hard to find the right information to help them make informed decisions.

A search on Google will provide a lot of technical information on SharePoint 2010, but this information can be difficult for a non IT person to understand. This webinar presents the features and business case to use SharePoint in terms that all business people can understand.

Webinar Objectives

This webinar will provide the attendee with:

• An broad understanding of the SharePoint feature set
• An in depth understanding of how key features of SharePoint can enhance business processes
• An understanding of the costs, timelines, staff involvement and commitment a business will incur when implementing SharePoint
• This webinar is presented in layman terms which staff in all departments can understand

*NEW* Windows Azure Webinar - What you need to know about moving your Apps

Thursday 29th March 2012 11.00am - 12.00pm Cost: No Charge

Presented by Andrew Coates - Microsoft Developer Evangelist

More and more companies are moving their infrastructure to the cloud. Driven by the low costs in terms of hardware, bandwidth and the promised reduction in support staff to maintain the infrastructure. So is moving to the cloud the right decision for your business?

Join Microsoft Australia’s Andrew Coates as he discusses the benefits (and some of the pitfalls) of adopting the cloud as your platform. There will be lots of time for live questions.

Webinar Objectives

This webinar will provide the attendee with:

• A brief lap around the cloud options available to businesses
• An understanding of the benefits of moving your app to Windows Azure
• Ways of assessing whether moving to or adopting the cloud might be a good decision
• An understanding of the steps required for converting your applications to Windows Azure
• Ample time to ask questions from the presenter

Sydney .NET User Group -
The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney

6 Days to go! Sydney .NET User Group Wednesday 21st March 2012 5:45pm - 9:00pm SSW Head Office Gateway Court, Suite 13 81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay

Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio and TFS

Deploying early and often delivers business value fast, generates early customer feedback and ensures ‘Go Live’ day ends with champagne and not a sleepless night. See how easy it is to set-up continuous delivery, and why it is an investment you should be making today!

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Adam Stephensen is a Software Architect at SSW. He loves delivering high quality, scalable, database-driven enterprise solutions.

He has a passion for Scrum, Continuous Delivery, and software craftsmanship. This has led him to mentor and contribute to many .NET projects across a broad range of technologies.

Adam is currently excited by the multitude of new tools and platforms coming from Microsoft, especially Visual Studio 2012, TFS Preview and MVC 4. He also can't wait to get his hands on a Windows Phone 8 device.

To see more details and RSVP, please visit our Facebook .NET Group or our LinkedIn .NET Group.

Sydney .Net User Group proudly sponsored by:

*RELAUNCH* Canberra .NET User Group -
The best place to learn .NET for free in Canberra

4 Days to go! Canberra .NET User Group Monday 19th March 2012 6:00pm - 9:00pm Microsoft Canberra Branch Walter Turnbull Building Level 2, 44 Sydney Ave Canberra, Australia

Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio and TFS

Deploying early and often delivers business value fast, generates early customer feedback and ensures ‘Go Live’ day ends with champagne and not a sleepless night. See how easy it is to set-up continuous delivery, and why it is an investment you should be making today!

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Adam Stephensen is a Software Architect at SSW. He loves delivering high quality, scalable, database-driven enterprise solutions.

He has a passion for Scrum, Continuous Delivery, and software craftsmanship. This has led him to mentor and contribute to many .NET projects across a broad range of technologies.

Adam is currently excited by the multitude of new tools and platforms coming from Microsoft, especially Visual Studio 2012, TFS Preview and MVC 4. He also can't wait to get his hands on a Windows Phone 8 device.

To see more details and RSVP, please visit our Facebook .NET Group or our LinkedIn .NET Group.

Canberra .Net User Group proudly sponsored by:

SSW Staff News

Raj Dhatt, one of SSW's web designers and SSWTV crew is joining the Leukaemia Foundation's World's Greatest Shave for a cure! By saying farewell to his luscious locks, Raj will be supporting blood cancer patients as well as funding important research.

His goal was to raise at least $500 and he has managed to raise this money in just 3 days! He is now sporting a new shaved head thanks to a visit to the barber on Thursday

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