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Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is written for a software team that is considering running a software project using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). It is about the "why" of VSTS: its guiding ideas, why they are presented in certain ways, and how they fit into the process of managing the software lifecycle. This book is the next best thing to having an onsite coach who can lead the team through a consistent set of processes. It is a framework for thinking about software projects in a way that can be directly tooled by VSTS. It presents essential theory and practical examples to describe a realistic process for IT projects. This is a book that any team using or considering VSTS should read.
Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is written for any software team that is considering running a software project using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), or evaluating modern software development practices for its use.
It is about the value-up paradigm of software development, which forms the basis of VSTS: its guiding ideas, why they are presented in certain ways, and how they fit into the process of managing the software lifecycle. This book is the next best thing to having an onsite coach who can lead the team through a consistent set of processes.
Sam Guckenheimer has been the chief customer advocate for VSTS, responsible for its end-to-end external design. He has written this book as a framework for thinking about software projects in a way that can be directly tooled by VSTS. It presents essential theory and practical examples to describe a realistic process for IT projects.
Readers will learn what they need to know to get started with VSTS, including
- The role of the value-up paradigm (versus work-down) in the software development lifecycle, and the meanings and importance of “flow”
- The use of MSF for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement
- Work items for planning and managing backlog in VSTS
- Multidimensional, daily metrics to maintain project flow and enable estimation
- Creating requirements using personas and scenarios
- Project management with iterations, trustworthy transparency, and friction-free metrics
- Architectural design using a value-up view, service-oriented architecture, constraints, and qualities of service
- Development with unit tests, code coverage, profiling, and build automation
- Testing for customer value with scenarios, qualities of service, configurations, data, exploration, and metrics
- Effective bug reporting and bug assessment
- Troubleshooting a project: recognizing and correcting common pitfalls and antipatterns
This is a book that any team using or considering VSTS should read.
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| Monday, February 08, 2010
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| Welcome to Southern California .NET Architecture Users Group
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The next SoCal IASA chapter meeting will be Tuesday January 26, 2010 at QuickStart Intelligence 16815 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100, Irvine, CA. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm, pizza and networking 6:30 pm. Meeting cost is $5 to help us cover the cost of food and beverages. RSVP by emailing to mike.vincent@mvasoftware.com or davidw@softw.com if you plan to attend.
January is a Combined Meeting with SoCal Team System
Our normal meeting location in Santa Ana is not available for January, so we are doing a combined meeting. Meeting Location is QuickStart Intelligence 16815 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100, Irvine, CA for this meeting only.
So You Want to be a Software Architect
As a relatively new role in many organizations, the responsibilities of the software architect are not always well defined and often extend beyond the core skills of software design. This talk takes a real world look at the broad range responsibilities that fall on the shoulders of Software Architects and discusses the skills and tools needed to meet the expectations that businesses have of the Software Architect.
John M. Miller
 Software Architecture Consultant at Perpetual Data Systems. As a consultant John assists clients in all aspects of software development, including software architecture, application life-cycle management, mentoring and training. John is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups on a wide range of software development topics. As an instructor he's trained many students in the tools and techniques of software development.
SoCal Team System
Site: http://www.SoCalTeamSystem.org
Azure User Group
Site: http://AzureUserGroup.com
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Dear Mike Vincent,
Happy Holidays from IASA! We hope your holidays were as restful and exciting as possible. We are tremendously excited about the new year and the new decade for the architect profession. Here at IASA we are dedicated to delivering you twice the value and growing the profession exponentially in the eyes of employers. The biggest news is that we have now begun certifying architects and have numerous individuals at the IFC and CITA-P levels. Check below to find out more about what 2010 has in store for you.
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ITARC, Foundation Training and CITA-P Board in Austin, TX Feb 1-11
Are you a GOOD Architect? Demonstrating Proficiency is what CITA-P is all about. |
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This year we are combining our best education, networking and career growth opportunities into one. Don't miss out on the first IT Architect Regional Conference in Austin Tx on Feb 4th 2010! There will be a full day of educational sessions in Enterprise and Software Architecture followed by a cocktail party and networking session that evening.
We've combined the ITARC to allow you to participate in all of educational offerings in one combined event! Add any one of the following and you get into the event for FREE!
Register for the Certified IT Architect- Software Professional Board Examination:
Register for the IASA Foundation 101/102 Curriculum
Check out the event agenda. |
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IASA Delivers Classroom Training
Not just online training anymore. |
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You have always had adequate training in the architecture skills you need, right? Right? Or have you always had to make do with training meant for programmers and other roles? That is a thing of the past. IASA has over 15 architecture courses for you and your team. And IASA members get $100 off of EVERY course.
Check out some dates an locations (register for both Foundation courses and get $500 off):
- Foundation 101 Training
- Feb 1-5 Austin TX - Register Now
- Mar 8-11 Atlanta GA - Register Now
- Feb 15-18 Seattle WA - Register Now
- Mar 15-18 Twin Cities MN - Register Now
- Feb 22-25 New York NY - Register Now
- Foundation 102 Training
- Feb 8-11 Austin TX - Register Now
- Mar 15-18 Atlanta GA - Register Now
- Feb 22-25 Seattle WA - Register Now
- Mar 22-25 Twin Cities MN - Register Now
- Mar 1-4 New York NY - Register Now
For additional dates and times, click here.
Would your company like schedule a custom training date/location? Contact us at education@iasahome.org for more information. |
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IASA Exclusive Content
We are proud to announce the development of our latest member driven initiative. The IASA Editorial Board and Content Committee is made up of key volunteers from all over the world whose sole focus is to find and present essential content for the architect community. To register to provide content or serve as an editor on the board send email to content@iasahome.org
Check out some of the most recent additions below or click here.
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The 'Angry Architect' Continues His Book Review Series
Tom Hope, the Angry Architect, has submitted a series of book reviews for IASA members. |
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- Review - Enterprise Architecture as Strategy
- Review - ITArchitecture Toolkit
- Review - Enterprise Architecture Planning
- Review - Lightweight Enterprise Architectures
- Review - Enterprise Architecture at Work
- Review - Enterprise Architecure Sourcebook
- Review - Dynamic Enterprise Architecture
- Review - Handbook on Enterprise Architecture
- Review - Constructing Blueprints for Enterprise IT Architectures
- Review - An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture EA3
- Review - Building Enterprise Information Architectures
- Review - A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture
- Review - An Enterprise Architecture Development Framework
- Review - Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice
- Review - Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework
- Review - Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice
- Review - How to survive in the jungle of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- Review - Enterprise Architecture 100 Success Secrets
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Upcoming Free Webinar -
Security Architecture Enforcement using Aspects |
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Even though many companies have some kind of application architecture standards, they don't usually have a mechanism to enforce those standards. As a result of this lack of architecture governance, the Implementation (Code) often doesn't match the Requirements (Reference Architecture). Enforcing Reference Architecture guidelines promotes consistency and modularity in the System. It also helps in detecting structural complexity and preventing it earlier in the software development process. As a result, the application code is modifiable, portable, and testable.
Srini Penchikala currently works as an Enterprise Architect at a major financial organization in Metropolitan Detroit area. He has over 14 years of IT experience and has been working on Java projects since 1996 and J2EE technology since 2000. His main areas of interest are Agile Enterprise and Service Oriented Architectures, Domain Driven Design & Development In Practice, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), Architecture Rules Enforcement, Enterprise Integration Patterns, and light-weight middleware frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. He has presented at conferences and Java User Groups on topics like Agile Enterprise Architectures, Architecture Governance, and Domain-Driven Design. He has published numerous articles on J2EE topics on websites like InfoQ.com, ServerSide.com, O'Reilly Java Network (ONJava), DevX Java, java.net and JavaWorld. Srini also publishes a blog on Java, JEE, and other topics at http://srinip2007.blogspot.com/. He is also a leader of Detroit Java User Group (http://sites.google.com/site/detroitjug/).
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Collaboration in the Enterprise - Speakers Wanted
We are building our next E-Summit for 8 speakers on collaboration topics. |
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Have you had experience building collaboration into your enterprise business processes? Do you regularly use tools to meet with teams across the globe? IASA is holding an E-Summit on this topic in Q1 and would like to hear from you.
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The Able Architecture: Part I
Submitted By Michael Montgomery |
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I have to apologize that it's taken me so long to get back to the column, but From the Field is after all the confessions of a practicing Architect and for the past two months I've been a very busy boy. With this article, I'm going to get off my dev.org.health soapbox (see the previous article titled Trust to Lead) and get into some real meaty stuff, my vision of modern software architecture.
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New Resource - SearchSOA.com |
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SearchSOA.com is the most relevant and extensive online community dedicated to service-oriented architecture (SOA). We offer unbiased news and an extensive research library to provide you with the tools you need. Whether you are looking to solve a specific SOA problem, or just trying to stay on top of recent industry developments, SearchSOA.com is your online portal for information.
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Getting Involved
Get recognized for your contribution to the profession and help us change things for architects. Or maybe you just feel passionate about a particular subject. IASA has the following opportunities to get involved.
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Content Committee
Member Webcast Leaders and Speakers |
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The content committee is looking for two volunteers to become committee members managing the IASA member and open webcast program. This would be a few hours a week to help:
- Determine topics and find speakers for the topics
- Introduce and lead the webcasts (Thursdays at 9am CST)
- Ensure the continued growth and awareness of the program
Also the committee is looking for Q4/Q1 speakers on the following topics. If you would like to speak email content@iasahome.org.
- The new web portal - trends in 2010
- Virtualization in Small to Medium Business
- Architecture Frameworks - A Comparison
- The Architecture Document - How to Create a Winning Deliverable
- Stakeholder vs. Shareholder - How and When to Draw the Line
We also look forward to additional submissions. Feel free to recommend your own topic of interest. Contact content@iasahome.org |
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Certification Committee
Help Setup Your Chapter For Certification |
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The certification committee is setting up numerous chapters to offer professional and foundation certifications. Check out the certification site for working with your local chapter. |
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Model Oriented Architect Knowledge Community
Research and Thought Leadership in MOA |
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Our MOA (model oriented architecture) knowledge community is forming up to provide news, events, content and research in putting the model first! The community is responsible for developing a series of resources connecting concepts such as DSLs, MDA, Domain Driven Design and more. For more information or to volunteer as a participant check out www.iasahome.org/web/moa now. | |
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Sincerely,
Newsletter, IASA
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Twin Cities ITARC |
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The IT Architect Regional Conference in the Twin Cities was a great success. Presentations are available for download for full repository members. |
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Membership Benefits |
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- Over 30 Webinars per year
- Hundreds of Articles online
- IASA Perspectives Journal 2 times a year
- Access to IASA chapter activities
- Discounts on industry events
- Become a speaker and author
- 50+ chapters in 40 countries
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Southern California .NET Architecture Users Group
Southern California .NET Architecture user group was founded to create a community for assisting software developers and software architects to increase their understanding of software architecture.
SoCal .NET Architecture users group is a not for profit social group whose purpose is to provide a forum for software architects and software developers to expand their knowledge of software architecture and Microsoft .NET technologies.
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| Southern California Code Camp November 21-22, 2009
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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Southern California Code Camp
University of Southern California
November 21-22, 2009
Code Camps are FREE Events!
This
year’s SoCalCodeCamp @USC is the weekend immediately following Microsoft’s PDC
@ the LA Convention Center. We expect to
draw high-caliber presenters from PDC presenters and attendees alike!
Code
Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This
community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of
all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring
emerging content and best practices to the community.
Who
is speaking at Code Camp? YOU are, YOUR PEERS are, and YOUR LOCAL EXPERTS
are…all are welcome! This is a community event and one of the main purposes of
the event is to have local community members step up and offer some cool
presentations! Don’t worry if you have never given a presentation before, we’ll
give you some tips if you need help, and this a great opportunity to spread
your wings. Of course, we do have some ringers on our speaker list as well…
We
have 48 sessions posted a full seven weeks ahead of event-day. We expect this number to double by event
day. stay tuned…
To
RSVP for the event, please visit http://www.socalcodecamp.com. Once you register with the site, please click
on the RSVP button. Don’t forget to
visit the Sessions page and check your sessions of interest! We use this information to assign
high-interest sessions to larger rooms.
Attendees,
Speakers, Sponsors, and Volunteers will also find additional information at our
companion site http://www.lacodecamp.com.
Also, don't forget to join us
for Geek Dinner at Casey's Bar and Grill in
Downtown LA after Saturday sessions. As always it's free food and drinks
(2) for the first 150 attendees to Code Camp so please sign up early
during registration. It's a great way to relax and chill with friends
and presenters after a marathon of sessions.
Thanks & see you at
Code Camp!
Please visit our sponsors who help
make our Code Camp possible!
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