Time: 5:30 PM Food (Pizza and Soda)

6:00 – 7:00 PM Meeting

Meeting Date: December 7th 2011

Speaker: Eric Landes

Topic: Excellent Executable Requirements

Location: Microsoft STE 460, 500 East 96th St. Indianapolis, IN 46240

Register: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=157962

Synopsis:

Many teams build software that does not behave as expected by their stakeholders. Teams that build valuable software need more than written specifications to ensure the value of that software. Agile engineering practices add “Executable Requirements” to your specifications arsenal. Writing excellent requirements has been considered a dark art up until now. Eric Landes shares principles of building executable requirements (or acceptance criteria) that deliver value for your customer. Eric shows developers how they can create these “excellent” requirements in difficult situations. These difficult situations include collaborating in different time zones, refining “vague” requirements, and helping product owners use “one voice”.  He shows Business Analysts collaboration techniques that help BAs write requirements that business and developers can understand. All these techniques can be utilized by Project Managers looking for ways to help increase their teams deliver value when they deliver software.

Bio:

Eric Landes has been involved with the IT industry for close to 20 years. As a Solution Architect for AgileThought he helps coach and implement agile solutions in primarily Microsoft environments. Eric has been using Agile methods for the past 6 years, in a Team Lead/Project Manager capacity. He has presented on Kanban, automated acceptance tests, and other agile topics at different agile conferences, and user group meetings. Eric has a CSM and is a Microsoft ALM MVP. For more information, check out his web site, http://ericlandes.com, or check AgileThought’s web site at http://www.agilethought.com

Visual Studio 2010 Premium and Ultimate include several tools for authoring and executing a variety of test types.  In this session we explore some of its basic test management capabilities before diving in to building and executing both Web performance and load tests in Visual Studio 2010.

Dave Fancher is a Principal Software Engineer at Aprimo in Indianapolis, Indiana.  He has been building software with C# and the .NET Framework since version 1.1 and is active with both the IndyNDA and Indy TFS user groups.  Most recently his focus has been on getting the most out of Visual Studio and developing applications for Windows Phone.  When not writing code he enjoys spending time with his family, photography, and gaming on on his Xbox 360.

Time: 5:30 PM Food (Pizza and Soda)

6:00 – 7:00 PM Meeting

Meeting Date: August 3rd 2011

Speaker: Paul Hacker

Location: Microsoft Ste 460, 500 East 96th Street Indianapolis, IN 46240-3766

Register: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=155893

Synopsis: This is an overview of the new development tools in Visual Studio 2010. The new capabilities of Intellitrace (historical debugging), code analysis, profiling, and the new test impact analysis will all be demonstrated. Working with Team Foundation Server 2010, gated-checkin will be discussed as well as the tester/developer collaborationexperience.

Bio: During his career, Paul has had the opportunity to fulfill many roles in the software development lifecycle. Paul is a consultant in Indianapolis, with a passion for Visual Studio ALM. He has been working with the product since beta 3. Paul has implemented Visual Studio/TFS in numerous organizations. When not spending time with his family, you can find him presiding over the TSUG-VE user group or Podcasting on Radio TFS



Time: 5:30 PM Food (Pizza and Soda)

6:00 – 7:00 PM Meeting

Meeting Date: June 1st 2011

Speaker: Paul Hacker

Location: Microsoft Ste 460, 500 East 96th Street Indianapolis, IN 46240-3766

Register: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=154909

Synopsis: Overview of the new Microsoft Test Manager 2010, an integrated toolset for the test professional that delivers a complete plan-test-track workflow. See how to use the new Microsoft Test Manager 2010 to plan, execute and manage testing of your web, Windows Forms or WFP applications. In addition, the training will cover how to file high quality bugs with rich diagnostics for your developers and to how to take full advantage of features like Fast Forward for Manual Testing so you can improve your testing productivity. Learn how to streamline your entire testing process using Microsoft Test Manager 2010!

Bio: During his career, Paul has had the opportunity to fulfill many roles in the software development lifecycle. Paul is a consultant in Indianapolis, with a passion for Visual Studio ALM. He has been working with the product since beta 3. Paul has implemented Visual Studio/TFS in numerous organizations. When not spending time with his family, you can find him presiding over the TSUG-VE user group or Podcasting on Radio TFS

Time: 5:30 PM Food (Pizza and Soda)

6:00 – 7:00 PM Meeting

Meeting Date: April 6th 2011

Location: Microsoft Ste 460, 500 East 96th Street Indianapolis, IN 46240-3766

Register:https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=153623

Synopsis: Over the past several years the Agile methodology has taken the development community by storm. With the release of their updated software development products in early 2010, Microsoft created a series of tools, patterns, and practices, which make their platform ideal for Agile development. The new scrum template along with Team Foundation Servers’ easy customization makes it a strong fit for any organization moving to or involved in such a process. We’ll step through the new template, talk about the scrum framework, and discuss how to make it fit an organization’s needs.

Bio: During his career, Kevin has had the opportunity to fulfill many roles in the software development lifecycle, and he has seen both the joyful success and the crushing failure of software projects. Realizing that spending time on solutions of little or no value is extremely depressing, he has spent the last several years working to gain a glimpse into how to make cohesive teams, successful projects, and satisfied customers. Outside of programming, Kevin focuses on leadership, motivation, and software development process methodologies.

Time: 5:30 PM Food (Pizza and Soda)
            6:00 – 7:00 PM Meeting

Date: February 2nd 2011

Location: Microsoft  
Ste 460, 500 East 96th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46240-3766

Register: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=152989

THE MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELED THIS MONTH DUE TO WEATHER.

Synopsis:

Over the past several years the Agile methodology has taken the development community by storm.  With the release of their updated software development products in early 2010, Microsoft created a series of tools, patterns, and practices, which make their platform ideal for Agile development.  The new scrum template along with Team Foundation Servers’ easy customization makes it a strong fit for any organization moving to or involved in such a process.  We’ll step through the new template, talk about the scrum framework, and discuss how to make it fit an organization’s needs.

Bio:

During his career, Kevin has had the opportunity to fulfill many roles in the software development lifecycle, and he has seen both the joyful success and the crushing failure of software projects.  Realizing that spending time on solutions of little or no value is extremely depressing, he has spent the last several years working to gain a glimpse into how to make cohesive teams, successful projects, and satisfied customers.  Outside of programming, Kevin focuses on leadership, motivation, and software development process methodologies.

Time: 6:00 – 7:30 PM

Date: December 8th 2010

Register: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=151824

Synopsis: TFS brings a rich set of capabilities to software development teams and while there are many areas where TFS excels others leave room for improvement. This session provides some real-world tips for improving the TFS version control experience. In particular we’ll examine enhancing version control with the TFS Power Tools, replacing the default compare and merge tools, tracking

Bio: Dave Fancher is a Principal Software Engineer for Aprimo, Inc. in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been building software with C# and the .NET Framework since version 1.1 and is a regular IndyNDA attendee. Most recently he has been focusing on getting the most out of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation System. When not writing code Dave enjoys spending time with his family, photography, and gaming on on his Xbox 360.

Pizza and Drinks will be provided