Scrumban!?!?!?!? with Joel Semeniuk

Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010
Time: 5PM Pacific (UTC-0800)

This meeting was cancelled due to Internet connectivity issues.  We will try to reschedule Joel again at a future time.

Kanban: A Japanese term  (看板) meaning "signboard" or "billboard", is a concept related to lean and "just-in-time" production.  Scrum: is a way of restarting a Rugby game after an accidental infringement or when the ball has gone out of play.

What do Scrum and Kanban have to do with eachother?  And what do they have to do with software development.  Many of you probably already know about "Scrum" as a project management framework for agile software development.  But what about Kanban?  Join us for this Visual Studio ALM User Group meeting as Joel Semeniuk presents "Scrumban" and explains both terms and how they can help your team with software development.

Joel is a founder and VP of Software Development at ImagiNET Resources Corp, a Manitoba based Microsoft Gold Partner in Ecommerce and Enterprise Systems. Joel is also the Microsoft Regional Director for Winnipeg, Manitoba. With a degree in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba, Joel has spent the last twelve years providing educational, development and infrastructure consulting services to clients throughout North America. Joel is the author of "Exchange and Outlook: Constructing Collaborative Solutions", from New Riders Publishing and contributing author of "Microsoft Visual Basic.NET 2003 KickStart" from SAMS. Joel has also acted as a technical reviewer on many other books and regularly writes articles for .NET Magazine and Exchange and Outlook Magazine on a variety of infrastructure and development related topics.

Test Planning and Automation using Visual Studio Test Professional 2010

 
Date: July 1, 2010
Time: 18:00 UTC
Recording available at http://tinyurl.com/3aydq6h

Improving quality has always been panacea for almost every single software project. If you are managing software projects, developing code or responsible for software quality in any way, attend this session to find out how Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 (VSTP) can benefit your work, your team and the overall project success.

Come and see the manual test authoring and test execution capabilities in VSTP, learn how to collect execution data, take snapshot and video recording, plan and report User Story execution using the integrated Test Case and Test Plan.

Last but not least, you will also see how to create and playback UI tests, extend them programmatically and automate the quality check process using Build Verification Test. Other useful scenarios like exploratory and data driven testing will be presented too.

Martin Kulov is Microsoft Evangelist at ProPeople ApS. He has more than 10 years of experience through all the phases of software development process - from requirements gathering to application deployment and support. Martin is member of INETA Speakers Bureau and often speaks at international conferences and user groups. Since 2006 he is a Visual Studio ALM MVP, MCT, MCPD, and MCSD. Martin is also founder of DevReach (www.devreach.com) - the premier conference for developers in CEE. Just recently he was accepted in the Microsoft Regional Director Program.