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Tommy Norman |
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Tommy Norman is a
Systems Architect for Compuware Corporation
with over 15 years experience in the Information Technology industry. His primary focus has been designing and building line of business applications with ASP.NET, smartclient, and mobile solutions. Tommy remains very active in the developer community as past president and current board member of the Nashville
.NET User Group, one of the original co-founders of the devLink Technical Conference, and as a frequent speaker for area user groups and technology organizations. When he is not working, Tommy enjoys guitar, music, and keeping up with his 4 (soon to be 5) children. You can find more information at his blog.
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Implementing Scrum and Team Foundation Server: A Semi-Practical Guide |
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Both Scrum and Team Foundation Server have received a large amount of attention the last few years and it is hard to separate the theoretical rhetoric from practical guidance. This presentation demonstrates the practical lessons learned from implementing both for a new .NET software development department. The focus will be on working with TFS and Scrum on a
daily basis with real world examples of both successes and failures. Specific topics to be covered include:
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Overview of Scrum.
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Walk through of implementing Scrum and other agile concepts using TFS and VSTS.
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Demos of the Conchango Scrum plug-in for TFS, TFS/Excel integration, managing Product and Sprint Backlogs, and more.
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Zen and the Art of Customizing Team Foundation Server |
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Team Foundation Server has a large amount of functionality
out of the box, but inevitably there comes a point where you will require either modifications to existing modules or entirely new functionality. There are several options for customization from simple configuration to full scale integration with external applications. This presentation will cover some of these topics including:
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Built in configuration options
- Basic and advanced template editing
- Integration through the TFS API
- The hidden costs of customization
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