| SSW Update - Do you know the benefits of using source control? |
[the cutting edge ]G'Day Developers! Source control is your backup of your code, as well as your change history to track changes. With the source control (we use TFS), we can share project code and cooperate with other team members. Using it allows us to track changes, compare code and even roll-back if required. Moreover, and most importantly, it keeps our code safe. However, the best use is the blame game. You don't just fix code, you see who broke it, fix it, and then let them know.
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Sydney .NET User Group -
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5 days to go!
Sydney .NET User Group |
What is Scrum... and is another project methodology really that useful? by Paul Neumeyer
While software development has been around for a while, projects and managing them has been around for even longer, so why should development teams be interested in a project management methodology that has been discussed widely only over the last few years? How does it relate to other Agile methodologies and will Scrum help when your team needs to deliver world class software on time and budget?
Yes, and in this session you will be shown how Scrum works with:
- The important concepts of Scrum and how it relates with other Agile techniques
- The features of Scrum to make it adaptable to your team, what types of projects it can be applied to and challenges that can arise
- Plus a couple of things that will maximize your productivity with Scrum in practice
To see more details and RSVP, please visit our facebook .NET group or our LinkedIn .NET group.
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Canberra .NET User Group -
The best place to learn .NET for free in Canberra
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3 days to go!
Canberra .NET Developers User Group Lunch: 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
What is Scrum... and is another project methodology really that useful? by John Liu
While software development has been around for a while, projects and managing them has been around for even longer, so why should development teams be interested in a project management methodology that has been discussed widely only over the last few years? How does it relate to other Agile methodologies and will Scrum help when your team needs to deliver world class software on time and budget?
Yes, and in this session you will be shown how Scrum works with:
- The important concepts of Scrum and how it relates with other Agile techniques
- The features of Scrum to make it adaptable to your team, what types of projects it can be applied to and challenges that can arise
- Plus a couple of things that will maximize your productivity with Scrum in practice
To see more details and RSVP, please visit our facebook .NET group or our LinkedIn .NET group.
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SSW Brain Quest -
Team Foundation Server and SharePoint 2010
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19 days to go!
SSW Brain Quest |
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.
Visual Studio 2010 Team System - An OverviewMicrosoft 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 Testing with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 - the life of a bugVisual 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.
Something About Mary (SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010)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.
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TFS 2010 $110 |
SHAREPOINT $110 |
FULL DAY $190 |
HOSTED Microsoft |
| Perth 03 MAR 2010 |
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Microsoft Perth |
| Adelaide 08 MAR 2010 |
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SA Innovation Centre |
| Melbourne 10 MAR 2010 |
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Microsoft Melbourne |
| Sydney 31 MAR 2010 |
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Microsoft Sydney |
| Canberra 20 APR 2010 |
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Microsoft Canberra |
Business Intelligence 2010 -
Starring Performance Point Services, Power Pivot and Office 2010
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20 days to go!
Business Intelligence 2010 |
Overview
Written and presented by industry experts, this intensive five-day workshop gives professional developers the information and hands-on experience they need to deliver state-of-the-art, integrated reporting and analytics solutions using Microsoft Business Intelligence.
Find out more and RegisterScrum Training Course
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4 months to go!
Scrum Training Course |
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.
| Canberra 3 MAY 2010 |
| Sydney 24 MAY 2010 |
| Wellington 31 MAY 2010 |
| Milan 21 JUN 2010 |
| London 26 JUL 2010 |
| Beijing 2 AUG 2010 |
SharePoint 101
Workshop -
What every business person should know about SharePoint 2007
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19 days to go!
SharePoint 101 Workshop |
Workshop Objective
This workshop will provide the attendees with:
- An 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
Workshop Outline
- Why should your business use SharePoint 2007?
- Differences between Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS)
- Explanation and demonstration of the business challenges the SharePoint feature set solve
- SharePoint in regards to implementation, costs and timelines
- SharePoint 2007 and the User Experience (custom design)
- SharePoint Development - What if I need more than SharePoint's out of the box functionality?
Process Improvement 101 for Software Teams -
What all software teams should know about Process Improvement
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42 days to go!
Process Improvement 101 for Software Teams |
Workshop Objective
This workshop will provide the attendees with:
- Understand the benefits possible when software processes are improved
- Learn the 7 signs of wastage and inefficiency and how to remedy each one
- Learn a systematic measurable process for improving process
- Understand the costs, timelines, staff involvement and commitment a business will incur when improving processes
- Understand some of the best tools on the market that could realise the benefits to your organisation
This workshop is presented in layman terms so that staff in all departments understand.
Workshop Outline
- Why your business needs to consider improving your software processes
- The 7 signs of wastage
- The process for improving process
- Group Exercise
- Demonstration of SSW’s workflow for the development team using Team Foundation Server
- Case studies
- Some leading industry tools
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Tech Breakfast
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:
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.
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EmploymentDue 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:
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