NOTE: User group is meeting on 3rd Thursday of each month as a three month trial (Mar,Apr & May meetings)

Session Details:

Part 1: The Build is Broken - Tell the world!

In the first part of the session, we'll look at some great ways of providing visibility of the build status to all team members. While a few of the things demonstrated will be very practical, I promise to include a few impractical but fun alternatives as well..

Part 2: Getting more from Team System through process template customisation

The two out-of-the-box process templates provided in VSTS are examples of very minimal process templates. With just a little effort you can get significantly more value from Team System by using customised process templates. In this session we'll have a look at some of the things you should consider changing..

About the presenter:

Anthony is a Development Process Specialist for AB Training Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company specializing in software development process and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. He has been working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since 2005. Anthony has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size from just 3 employees up to some of Australia’s largest companies and financial institutions. Anthony is the lead Microsoft Technical Readiness Instructor in Australia for Microsoft Visual Studio and has presented at the Microsoft launch events for both VSTS2005 and VSTS2008. Anthony is a Microsoft MVP (Team System), a Certified Scrum Master and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He is also the president of the QLD VSTS users group and maintains a blog at http://www.myvstsblog.com