Application Lifecycle Management is about managing the lifespan of your applications with a set of processes and tools that integrate team members and activities. Visual Studio 2010 focuses on further enhancing the flow of information across your team and improving software quality.  Microsoft invites...

Click below to register for the location near you, there are 3 different events so be sure to pick the right one when signing up to secure your spot! SPACE IS LIMITED so please be conscientious of registering ONLY if you can actually attend. If after you sign up you need to back out, we understand, life...

There are currently several job openings within Microsoft DPE in the Midwest and surrounding states.  And it occurred to me, I have LOTS of friends in the biz who would make awesome evangelists, but they probably have no idea that the we are looking for people.  RIGHT NOW! Below are 3 of the...

November | 8 | Chicago -  Microsoft Office Downtown Due to Microsoft Office space constraints only 24 attendees will be allowed to register for the Chicago event Register here for Chicago event here: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=157428 Drive your business forward by learning...

In case you haven’t heard, I am ALL OVER social networking.  If you follow my personal account , it’s full of cooking stories and food pics, DIY and crafting advice, My Fluevog shoe obsession, cute pictures of my dog, cute pictures of OTHER people’s dogs and tech stuff.  Maybe not your cup...

I talk to a LOT of customers every year. It might be safe to say I meet with 100+ different companies every year, and have met with several thousand individuals over the past 5 years that I have been at Microsoft. Before that I worked as a consultant and had experience with at least 20 or so different...

“That Test Manager form should be resizable! “ “That option is too hard to find in Visual Studio!” “Why can’t Team Explorer include that one really key feature that I need to do my job?“ “Why isn’t that easily searchable?” – I’ve asked this myself!!   We hear you! Really, we do.  We’ve been...

So while I am always happy to cover these topics with my customers, there are 2 problems with this: I don’t scale well.  I have several HUNDRED customers across many states and I can only be at one place at a time.  This gives you many opportunities to get the topics you need covered when it...

So maybe you’re interested in Team Foundation Server for source control and build but you’re a Java person thinking “what could a Microsoft tool offer ME?”. Or you work on a Mac, or a Linux or Unix box and assume “I can’t possibly get use out of this thing if I’m not running a Windows PC”. I’m making...

Come join Microsoft and Notion Solutions as we present the latest tools and techniques for managing your software process to attain quality software using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools provided with this release.  These new tools provide significant...

So you may have heard that I rebooted the Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group with my good friends at Polaris Solutions .  Really, they are good friends whom I have known for most of my technical career.  Be sure to say hi to them at the next meeting   Anyway, the “Agile Modeling in Visual...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, theses free on-line workshops are really great!  They focus on how to better leverage the power and functionality of the new features in Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010.  They are live, free, and run by experiences partners who can...