Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Alex Mackman and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.This session describes the tester’s role in the value-up software development lifecycle and explains what value-up means for testing practices. Recorded September 2007.[more ]

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Alex Mackman and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.This session describes the developer’s role in the value-up software development lifecycle and explains what value-up means for development practices. Recorded September 2007.[more ]

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Alex Mackman and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.This session describes the architect’s role in the value-up software development lifecycle and explains what value-up means to architectural design. Recorded September 2007.[more ]

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Alex Mackman and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.This session highlights common problems associated with traditional software project management theory and presents a value-up project management approach. It then describes techniques that project managers can use to detect in-control and out of control projects. Recorded September 2007.[more ]

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Alex Mackman and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.The focus for this session is on requirements gathering and techniques to help capture and manage requirements throughout the lifecycle. The session explains some of the challenges associated with deciding precisely what to build and it presents techniques for…[more ]

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Alex Mackman and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.This session introduces the notion of value-up software development. It compares and contrasts core value-up principles and practices with conventional work-down approaches. The latter have proved over the years, largely ineffectual for team-based software development…[more ]

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Alex Mackman and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.This Session introduces ALM, and explains the business rationale and business benefits of ALM. It explains how an organization can get started with ALM. It also introduces VSTS as Microsoft’s solution to support ALM through tooling and process enactment. Recorded September 2007.[more ]

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Michael Saffitz and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.Windows Mobile development is not as difficult as it seems. Take a comprehensive walkthrough of the Windows Mobile application development platform, SDKs and tool enhancements for device development in this session. We will cover what’s new in Windows Mobile 6 SDK,…[more ]

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Rohit Puri and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.This session demonstrates how VSTO reduces complexity and greatly speeds development of SharePoint workflow from within Visual Studio. Recorded September 2007.[more ]

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast. This session was presented by Rohit Puri and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.This session is to help developers understand how they can easily extend the Office Fluent UI using powerful ribbon design tools that are available in VSTO. Recorded September 2007.[more ]