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Scrum Training Course - Half Price!

11 days to go! Scrum Training Course Sydney, Wellington, Milan, London, and Beijing Cost: $3995 + GST Cost for UG Members: $1995 + GST

This course is normally $3995 but there is a limited offer for User Group members to do the Melbourne course at HALF PRICE ($1995 + GST)

Overview

This Scrum Developer course is a unique and intensive five-day experience for software developers. The course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using the Scrum framework, Visual Studio 2010, and modern software engineering practices. Attendees will work in self-organizing, self-managing teams using a common instance of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 to achieve this goal.

Melbourne 21 JUN 2010
Milan 28 JUN 2010
London 26 JUL 2010
Beijing 2 AUG 2010
Sydney 23 AUG 2010

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

7 days to go! Sydney .NET User Group Wednesday 17th June 2010 5:45pm - 9:00pm Hilton, Sydney 488 George Street

IMPORTANT: Location changed to The Hilton, 488 George St, Sydney

Wicked Problems and SharePoint; The one best practice to rule them all

Speaker: Paul Culmsee

Wicked problems are a particular class of problems – that often defy traditional thinking, tools, and methods that are useful only for simpler ("tame") problems. Most projects today have a significant wicked component and SharePoint is especially susceptible to falling victim. SharePoint project failure more often than not a result of problem wickedness. In fact, wicked problems are so commonplace that the chaos and futility that usually attend them are accepted as inevitable. Failing to recognize the "wicked dynamics" in problems, we persist in applying inappropriate methods and tools to them. This session introduces the concept of wicked versus tame problems, why SharePoint projects often fall foul of them, and offers insights into how wickedness can be managed or tamed to make your SharePoint investment a success.

2007 and 2010 Head to Head in the Real World

Speaker: Nicolas Hadlee

SharePoint 2010 is abut to arrive with the promise of significant improvements over its 2007 predecessor. Gary and Nick will go head to head using SharePoint 2007 and 2010 and implement a real world solution to see what really has been made easier and better. This session will focus on a live demonstration that takes a real world problem and implements the solution in both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 to contrast and compare the options available under each version. It will demonstrate building an application through the use of site admin pages, SharePoint Designer and maybe even a small amount of code in Visual Studio (don't let it you put off!). It is aimed at a broad audience from developers, IT managers, business analysts and end users.

To see more details and RSVP, please visit our facebook .NET group or our LinkedIn .NET group.

Australian SharePoint Conference

7 days to go! Wednesday 17th June 2010 5:45pm - 9:00pm Hilton, Sydney 488 George Street

Come and see lots of great international speakers at this conference including our very own Adam Cogan

To see more details and RSVP, please visit Australian SharePoint Conference Page

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

Cancelled due to public holiday

This month the Canberra .net User Group will not be run because of the public holiday.

We encourage you to take advantage of the Scrum training in Melbourne. (at half price)

To see more details and RSVP, please visit our facebook .NET group or our LinkedIn .NET group.

SSW Brain Quest -

16 days to go! SSW Brain Quest Full Day Event 9:00am - 6:00pm. 12 August - Sydney Brain Quest - World Tour Coming soon to Milan, Athens, London and Beijing

Team Foundation Server 2010 for Successful Project Management by Adam Cogan

Visual Studio Ultimate (formerly Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) are the cornerstones of development on the Microsoft .NET platform. These are the best tools for a project manager to have successful projects and for the developers to have a focused and smooth software development process.

Come and see Adam Cogan, Microsoft Regional Director, VSTS Champ and Chief Architect from SSW show you:

• How to successfully gather requirements with User stories
• The right way to use work items
• The way to complete a work items and send a 'done'
• Use templates for your standard work items
• The extra work items that developers always forget
• What is good and bad about Excel and Project integration
• What you can use from the built in reporting as well as the Project portals available on from the SharePoint dashboard
• The important reports to give your Project Manager

Walk away knowing how to see the project health and progress. Visual Studio Ultimate is designed to help address many of these traditional problems faced by project managers. It does so by providing a set of integrated tools to help teams improve their software development activities and to help project managers better support the software development processes.

During this session we will cover the lifecycle of creating work items and tracking of releases using Visual Studio Ultimate and Team Foundation Server.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team System is an integrated software development platform to build the mission-critical applications that businesses depend on. It extends Visual Studio's integrated and productive experience from the developer to the entire development team by delivering powerful new role-based tools for software architects, developers, testers and project managers. In this session you will see an overview of these tools and how they can improve your software development cycle.

Visual Studio 2010 makes up a large part of a .Net developers life. This session will delve into the 'life of a bug' by taking a walk in the shoes of an everyday bug from discovery to release (and the steps that make up the in between). Come along and check out the new features that will make you happier by making your code better, your job easier, and your team more productive by reducing the obstacles you face in your everyday coding life. Learn:

• What the new features for testers and developers
• How you now care - even if the tester can't reproduce the bug
• How to stop struggling to find the source of the bug in your code
• How can you streamline the testing process and make sure you don't repeat the same bugs
• How to automate more and reproduce bugs easier and discover problems sooner.

In this session Adam Cogan will provide information about what is new in SharePoint 2010 and his personal favorites. The SharePoint Team has invested in many including:

• UX support for Silverlight and Ajax
• their Web Content Management System
• Digital Asset Management System (for videos)
• Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint 2010
• Developer Platform
• Office 2010 integration
• RESTful Web API
• Tagging and Rating

Lets see what's good and what's not.

Come see Adam Cogan explain what works well with SharePoint and Office for Mary and the other knowledge workers.

First you will get an overview of what is great about having SharePoint in your business. Then see real world examples of:

• Using SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 together (Comparing with what with had with 2007)
• Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like CRM 4 and TFS
• Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into business processes (separate from SharePoint), and then followed by
• Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with SharePoint to improve visibility/searchability/versioning across the company
• Overview of how data can be synchronised between the two (eg using Access and Excel)
• Overview of what 'workflow' (really!) means
• How Office can be incorporated into company workflows with SharePoint
• High level examples of using/integrating Office with other products (eg VSTS integration with Outlook)
• Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be developed
• Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations (eg the Atlassian SharePoint Connector and Office Connector)

This is a good chance for you to consider new ways of using Office in your company, along with pitfalls to avoid. Adam gets excited about this session because too often companies limit Office to just an email application, word processor and spreadsheet - completely missing the positive impact it can have on the entire business process.

Price (ex GST)	TFS 2010 $110	SHAREPOINT $110	FULL DAY $190	HOSTED Microsoft
Milan 26 JUN 2010				TBA
Athens 28 JUN 2010				TBA
London 21 JUL 2010				TBA
Beijing 1 AUG 2010				TBA
Sydney 12 AUG 2010				Microsoft Sydney

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Tech Breakfast

3 months to go! SYDNEY: Something About Mary (SharePoint and Office 2010) Friday, 24th September 2010 8:00am-11:00am

Come and see Adam Cogan explain what works well with SharePoint and Office for Mary and the other knowledge workers.

First you will get an overview of what is great about having SharePoint in your business.

Then see real world examples of:

• Using SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 together
• Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like CRM 4 and TFS
• Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into business processes (separate from SharePoint), and then followed by
• Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with SharePoint to improve visibility/ searchability/ versioning across the company
• Overview of how data can be synchronized between SharePoint and external data sources (eg using Access and Excel)
• Overview of what 'workflow' really means!
• How Office can be incorporated into company workflows with SharePoint
• Extending SharePoint with Office SharePoint Designer 2010 (free!)
• Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be developed
• Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations (eg the the Atlassian SharePoint Connector and Atlassian Office Connector)

This is a good chance for you to consider new ways of using Office in your company, along with pitfalls to avoid. Adam gets excited about this session because too often companies limit Office to just an email application, word processor and spreadsheet - completely missing the positive impact it can have on the entire business process.

Employment

Due to the tremendous growth that our business has experienced over the last few months, we are seeking enthusiastic people to join the SSW team.

Our Company is based in Neutral Bay which is one of the most elegant and scenic areas of Sydney. SSW is an Australian owned progressive consulting firm specialising in building, implementing and maintaining Microsoft .NET software applications.

We are currently strongly looking for a SharePoint Developer.

We are also currently looking for:

• ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, OLAP, SharePoint Software Developer
• Technical BDM in Melbourne, Brisbane, or Canberra
• IT Senior Marketing Consultant (part-time)
• Project Manager

Read more and Apply NOW...