Entries tagged with introductory - Channel 9

Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:49 GMT

Visual Studio has built-in tool support for agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and others. The next version adds practices like test-driven development, continuous integration, and single product backlog. See how these can be applied at scale and across geographies.

Sunder Raman
Lori Lamkin
Lori Lamkin is the Product Unit Manager of the Redmond Team Foundation team. The product is part of a suite of lifecycle tools designed to increase collaboration of software development teams. Team Foundation is a work item tracking, project management and reporting solution for project managers and team members. She joined Microsoft in 1990 supporting customers with the C/C++ language product and in 1993 became the Unit Manager of C/C++ technical customer support, leading over 100 managers, engineers and outsourced partners to high quality, low cost customer service and product improvement. She joined the Microsoft product development team in 1996 as a Lead Program Manager for C/C++ and became the Group Program Manager for C/C++ and C# in 2001. She moved into the lifecycle tools business in early 2003 to work on Visual Studio Team System as the Group Program Manager of Team Foundation. As Group Program Manager, she was responsible for defining product vision, driving deep customer relationships, building a strong design team, and leading the design and delivery of this version 1.0 product across three Microsoft Development Centers. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics with an emphasis in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Lori enjoys reading, golf, and spending time with her husband and twin boys.

A Lap Around Windows Azure

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:51 GMT

Hear about key problems that cloud computing is solving and how these services fit into the Microsoft cloud computing initiatives. Learn about the pillars of the platform, its service lifecycle, and see how they fit with both Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Also, hear about the services roadmap over the next few years.

Manuvir Das
Manuvir Das is a Director in the Cloud Infrastructure Services division at Microsoft Corporation, where he has been working, with many others, on delivering a world class services platform to developers. In his other life, Manuvir is a reasearcher and an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington. His research interests have been in inventing and applying techniques from Programming Languages, Compilers, and Systems to the software engineering process. He previously led the Program Analysis research group in the Center for Software Excellence at Microsoft. Manuvir has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Developing and Deploying Your First Windows Azure Service

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:31 GMT

In this session we take a tour of the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud platform by building and running a simple service using the platform SDK. The sample service highlights some of the features of the platform including service management, storage, and an integrated developer experience. This is a demo-heavy session.

Steve Marx

Microsoft Advertising Platform: A Lap Around

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:14 GMT

Hear a review of the core components of the Microsoft Advertising Platform, how the core components fit together, and our roadmap. Get the information you need to decide whether to use the platform for monetization or tools creation.

Erynn Petersen