May 22 meeting of the Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group

Please join us for the next meeting of SoCal Team System on May 22. We'll be meeting in Newport Beach at Outsource Technical 3700 Campus Drive, Suite 100. Pizza and networking starts at 6:30 pm and the meeting starts at 7:00. Meeting cost is $5 to help us cover the cost of food and beverages. Please RSVP to Mike Vincent if you plan to attend.

Best Practices for Requirements Gathering

Have you wondered…why your applications just don’t seem to match your customer’s expectations? How do you manage the ‘moving target’ of requirements? Learn key, common sense, concepts to provide an improved foundation to your skill set. Today’s economic conditions have helped drive the need for new tools and methods for requirements gathering. Discover approaches to matching requirements and customer’s expectations. Understand the intricacies of balancing scope, schedule and budget. Learn how to balance the need for rigor and the need for speed and efficiency in gathering your requirements. Grasp how to embrace uncertainty that is inherent and inevitable in software development projects. These best practices presented to you will enable you to leverage what you learned at your first day back at the office.

Michael Krasowski

 Michael is Vice President of Development at PDSA, Inc. and brings over 32 years of Information Technology experience to bear at his position. Prior to joining the PDSA team, Michael was the Director of Information Technology at the Long Beach division of Boeing. He was responsible for all aspects of computing – strategic planning, architecture, application lifecycle, asset management, and outsource management – where he managed a budget of over $90 million dollars and 140+ people. Michael’s responsibilities at PDSA are to manage all projects and personnel while ensuring quality services are delivered on time and on budget to our valued clients. He has been instrumental in defining and executing a solid internal business and engineering process to ensure quality services. Michael also has been an instructor at UCLA and University of California, Irvine's extension program since 1985. He instructs or has instructed the following courses: Microsoft.NET, Advanced Visual Basic, and Relational/Distributed Database Management and Design. Michael holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from UCLA, and has published several articles on database management, SQL Server and Visual Basic. He has also spoken at industry conferences, such as Advisor’s DevCon and Informant Conferences on Microsoft Technologies and best practices.