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If you're going to be in the Seattle area next month, or need a reason to be, consider attending the APLN Seattle Leadership Summit at the Edgewater Hotel on July 17 & 18. The theme this year is, “Advancing the Agile Enterprise.”

The APLN Leadership Summit include the exploration of agile leadership of projects and enterprises. Under the guidance of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), the summit objectives are to connect, develop, and support great project and enterprise leaders.

There will be two leadership keynotes from:

• Lisa Haneberg, author of seven books including 10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager and Two Weeks to a Breakthrough.
• John Yuzdepski, a partner at Management Concepts LLC specializing in product transitions and commercialization of new technology and a veteran of the mobile communications industry.

Topics and experts include:

• Collaboration Games by Luke Hohmann and Allan Shalloway
• Kanban by David Anderson and Corey Ladas
• Scrum by Brent Barton and Lance Young
• Getting Started with Agile by Mitch Lacey and Julie Chickering
• Writing Agile Contracts by Bruce Eckfeldt and Jim Benson
• Agile Program Management by Mike Griffiths and Mike Cottmeyer
• Real Option Theory by Chris Matts and Olav Maassen
• Agile User Experience by Arlen Bankston and Jeff Patten

In addition, Dale Christian, CIO of Avanade, will head a panel of senior leaders discussing their experiences.

Register now and get the early bird special price of $300 until June 17th.

As you may recall, David Anderson was a member of the original Team System product team (now a principal at Modus Cooperandi) and made a number of valuable contributions, including MSF for CMMI Process Improvement. He is also an excellent author and blogger.

This should be an educational two days, and the best time to visit Seattle is July and August.

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If you want to learn more about Visual Studio 2008, consider attending one of the following conferences this fall in Las Vegas:

• VSLive! Las Vegas 2007 - October 15-18
  "VSLive! Las Vegas returns to the city that never sleeps with four days of the very best in Visual Studio and .NET. With over 75 intense hours of keynotes, breakout sessions and full-day workshops by thought-leaders in the industry, you can’t lose. For the best value, sign up for the all-inclusive Gold Passport by the Early Bird deadline of September 12."
• DevConnections - November 5 – 8
  "DevConnections celebrates the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2008 in Las Vegas. Be among the first to receive a copy of Visual Studio 2008 and hear the latest announcements from Microsoft executives. Train, network, and party with over 150 Microsoft architects and top industry experts presenting 250 in-depth sessions! There is no other event that has more industry experts in one place at one time. The partner expo promises to be exciting with giveaways including a Harley Davidson. Focus on Visual Studio, ASP.Net, SQL Server, Mobility, SharePoint and much more. All this produced in the coolest 4-star resort and casino on the strip. Last year this event sold out, register today."

Or, if you're closer to Spain than you are to Vegas, consider attending TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain:

• Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007
  "TechEd Developers is Microsoft’s premier EMEA conference, designed to provide developers with deep dive technical training, information and community resources focusing on building software solutions with Microsoft development tools for current and soon to release products and technologies."

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I’ve just spent a great couple of days attending the Roots Conference in Bergen, Norway. There were a bunch of very interesting people there and I had a fun time presenting. Norweigans seem to be very friendly and speak great English (lucky for me!).

My talk about Subversion Security includes some updated slides—if you have the proceedings CD you might want to grab the updated version. For the Test Driven Development session, we wrote a bunch of code which I thought people at the conference might like to see again, and you can grab that here including the slides.