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Matt Nunn, product manager on Team Edition for Database Professionals, spoke with The Virtual Side at TechEd: IT Forum in Barcelona.
Get ready...Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals will release to manufacture (RTM) at the end of November! Matt Nunn provides a sneak peek into what we can expect to see.
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If you're in Barcelona for Tech•Ed: IT Forum, or in Seattle for 2006 PASS Community Summit, stop by the Team Edition for Database Professionals booth to score an invite to an exclusive party on Thursday in Barcelona, or Wednesday in Seattle. Members of the Team Edition for Database Pro team (mostly in Seattle) are looking forward to celebrating with you the pending release of their new product at the end of the month (Team Edition for Database Pros to RTM on November 30). Each guest must have an invite, so be sure to visit the booth.
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At Tech•Ed: IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, Bob Muglia also announced updated MSF process guidance to support users of Team Edition for Database Professionals (see Promise to Customers: Advance the Business With IT Solutions).
Process guidance for database professionals included in the Microsoft Solutions Framework. This process guidance is the first of its kind in the industry and demonstrates Microsoft’s commitment to making the database professional a full-fledged participant in the application life cycle.
You can download the updated process guidance today:
MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance
This download contains an update to the agile process guidance that ships with Visual Studio 2005 Team System. MSF for Agile Software Development is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process that utilizes many of the ideas embodied in Team System. Version 4.1 provides new guidance for the Database Professionals to use Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.
MSF for CMMI Process Improvement Process Guidance
This download includes the MSF for CMMI® Process Improvement process guidance, which is a highly iterative, adaptive planning, agile software development process which meets the requirements for the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) level 3. Version 4.1 provides new guidance for the Database Professionals to use Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.
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At Tech•Ed: IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, Bob Muglia (senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft) announced the scheduled RTM date of Team Edition for Database Professionals on November 30th (see Promise to Customers: Advance the Business With IT Solutions).
The release to manufacture for Visual Studio® Team Edition for Database Professionals, scheduled for Nov. 30, 2006. Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals provides a foundation for change management, development, testing and deployment of databases through integrated functionality designed to help database developers and administrators be more productive, reduce risk and drive quality. More information is available at http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/products/dbpro/default.aspx.
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While I was out on vacation, the PowerPoint slides from the Team System presentations held at TechEd 2006 US in Boston were posted for download from Visual Studio 2005: TechEd 2006.
Team Edition for Database Professionals:
Team Foundation Server:
Team Suite:
MSF:
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Tags: tfs | team foundation server | vsts | team system
At TechEd 2006, Steven Guggneheimer (General Manager. Application Platform & Development Marketing) present his Strategic Briefing, Advance Your Business with IT Solutions.
In this Strategic Briefing, hear from Steve Guggenheimer and the team about Microsoft's vision for the Application Platform, understand our technology roadmap and core focus areas - including SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006; and see the products in action with end-to-end demos that focus on connecting back end systems, mapping business processes and integrating application development across the IT lifecycle.
From: IT's Showtime
The session runs just over an hour. You can download the slides from here.
In addition, see Bob Kelly (General Manager of Microsoft's Infrastructure Technologies and Solutions Division) presented a Strategic Briefing, Optimize Your Core Infrastructure: Manage Complexity, Achieve Agility, Protect Information and Control Access. In this briefing, he covered the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), which includes the Distributed System Designers in Team Edition for Software Architects.
Join Bob Kelly as he discusses the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), Microsoft's long term strategy that couples a model-driven approach with a complete, integrated set of technology solutions to enable IT to manage complexity and achieve agility.
From: IT's Showtime
The session also runs just over an hour. You can download the slides from here.
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Tags: vsts | team system
At TechEd, Personify Design launched their first product, TeamLook. I’ve been using TeamLook throughout their beta period since December. It’s a natural integration of Team Foundation Server with Outlook 2003 that will be a productivity boost for any team using Team Foundation Server.
Personify Design TeamLook™ extends Microsoft Outlook 2003 so that all stakeholders in a software project can communicate more effectively and gain accurate visibility into project status. TeamLook™ connects to Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server and enables users to view Work Items, Reports, and other artifacts stored in their Visual Studio 2005 Team System installations. With constant synchronization TeamLook™ functions in a similar manner to other Microsoft Outlook features, reducing training costs and enabling organizations to realize immediate productivity gains.
Cost: $99.95 (Free Trial Download)
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To the authors who participated in the Team System book signing at the TechEd Bookstore today I’d like to extend a public, “Thank You!”
(Front row, left to right: Juan J. Perez, Sam Guckenheimer, and Richard Hundhausen; back row, left to right: Christopher Bowen, Jean-Luc David, and Noah Coad)
I’d also like to thank Jan Shanahan at Microsoft, and Kristi Butorac with Blue Rooster Marketing, for helping me make this happen.
If you’re at TechEd, but you weren’t able to attend the signing and want a signed book, the authors left some signed copies for purchase at the bookstore.
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Later this afternoon, we’re holding a book signing for several Team System books at TechEd in Boston.
When: Tuesday, June 13th, 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Where: TechEd Bookstore (located on Level 1 near the Expo Hall)
Books:
Working with Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Microsoft Press)
Richard Hundhausen
Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Addison-Wesley)
Sam Guckenheimer and Juan J. Perez
Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Wrox)
Jean-Luc David, Noah Coad, and Christopher Bowen
(unfortunately, Erik Gunvaldson, Darren Jefford, and Tony Loton aren’t able to attend)
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