Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group

Meeting Location

SoCal Team System is a user group focused on software application lifecycle management. We provide a forum for learning about, exchanging ideas, and using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. If you are new to VSTS, just checking it out, want to learn more, or an experienced user wanting to share your knowledge, please join us.

Visual Studio Team System provides multi-disciplined team members with an integrated set of tools for architecture, design, development, database development, testing and building of applications. Team members can continuously collaborate and utilize a complete set of tools and guidance at every step of the application life cycle.

QuickStart Intelligence
16815 Von Karman Avenue
Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92606

Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Meetings are on the 4th Tuesday of each month, unless noted with the meeting event.

Next meeting January 26 for Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group

Please join us for the next meeting of SoCal Team System on January 26, 2010. We'll be meeting in Irvine at QuickStart Intelligence 16815 Von Karman Avenue, 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 mikev@mvasoftware.com if you plan to attend.

January is a Combined Meeting with SoCal .NET Architecture

So You Want to be a Software Architect (and what's that have to do with ALM?)

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

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.

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Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Author: Sam Guckenheimer with Juan J. Perez
	"If you only read one book on Team System, it should be this one." - Mickey Gousset, MVP

Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Author: Richard Hundhausen

Introduces you to Visual Studio 2005 Team System and how this program will allow architects, developers, testers, and project managers to collaborate in a single, extensible development environment.

Downloads


VSTS 2008 Best Practices	Richard Hundhausen	June 2009
VSTS 2008 Best Practices links	Richard Hundhausen	June 2009
A Lap Around VSTS 2010 Beta 1	Mike Vincent	July 2009
Scrum Fundamentals	Mike Vincent	October 2009