Upcoming Live Meetings - Visual Studio Team System

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Date

Team System Overview

A deep dive into how our software development life cycle tools help with all aspects of your business. Learn about how VSTS can help with project management, compliancy, quality software, resource and task management, process improvement and standardization.

1/25/2006

MSDN Administration and Registration

With the new release of the MSDN Administration System you now have more control than ever in managing your MSDN subscription in a manner that fits your business climate. This is a dive into how the new tools allow you to better manage your benefits and control access and benefits better than ever.

1/25/2006

Product Overview, Transition and Choosing Your VSTS Role

With new tools focused around the architect, developer, and tester take an opportunity to learn how to access your needs by understanding what part of the business each of these tools applies to; how to make a choice that fits your level of software discipline and process. For those of you that have agreements expiring don’t miss the chance to make the decision process simpler.

1/25/2006

Project Management With Team System

Why is it that 20% of the work always takes 80% of the time? Project Management is a critical part of controlling software budgets and time lines. See the new features for project managers than can help you control one of the hardest areas of software development.

2/1/2006

Business Reporting With Team System

Have you ever wanted to get a quick health and activity status on your project or have so many projects going at once that you and your team spend all the time in status meetings? See how Team System streamlines reporting and keeps you up to date without status meetings and looking at a project schedule.

2/7/2006

Process Optimization With Team System

Is your organization looking for the right level of process? Would you like a way to tailor a process and have your development tools match your process rather than your process have to match the development tools? Come find out why you have more choices than ever and how you can leverage these choices to find the right level of process and optimize your results.

2/14/2006

Change Management With Team System

Understanding how change management can make or break a project is always tough.  You have to walk a fine line between adding every feature request that comes along with allocating the time and budget to manage these changes. How do your track project needs from requirements to features in the project? How do you make sure that your compliancy needs are being satisfied? Learn how VSTS helps with all of these.

2/21/2006

Building Quality Software With Team System

Build often and test continuously. Ever wonder how such an obvious defect got into your software? Learn the value of continuous testing, unit tests, code coverage, and how they affect the quality (and cost) of the software you build.

2/28/2006

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Team Architect Overview

Learn about the new DSI and modeling features found in the VSTS Architect Tools

1/27/2005

3/10/2005

Code Analysis and Profiling

Understand your code, learn how to use the tools to profile and identify the characteristics of your application that can speed performance, identify areas for re-factoring or find dead code that is not being used at all.

2/3/2005

3/17/2005

Unit Testing, Code Coverage and Policy

Take your unit testing to the next level. Learn how you can quickly generate unit tests and understand what amount of cover that your tests are providing.

2/10/2005

3/24/2005

Test Case Management and Load Testing

Managing all of your testing, integrating your existing manual tests, and existing tools is possible. See how you can leverage your existing tools and test and take advantage of the new load testing features without spending a small fortune to do it.

2/17/2005

3/31/2005

Source Code Control and Change Management

These are the reasons that your CFO and project managers lose sleep at night, the reason developers pull their hair out (or lost it in the first place) and business owners gets frustrated that they can’t have everything yesterday. Learn why the new source code control features in VSTS are better than source safe and understand how you can use change management without being a slave to process.

2/24/2005

4/7/2006

Customizing and Extending VSTS

VSTS provides a lot of functionality out of the box. Learn how you can customize and extend VSTS to meet your needs and integrate with other data, customize process templates, and get the big picture all in VSTS.

3/3/2005

4/14/2005