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 Application Lifecycle Management. If you are new to ALM, just checking it out, want to learn more, or an experienced user wanting to share your knowledge, please join us.

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (previously known as 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.

Microsoft Store
578 The Shops at Mission Viejo
Mission Viejo, CA 92691

Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm

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

Next meeting August 24 for Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group

Please join us for the next meeting of SoCal Team System on August 24, 2010. We'll be meeting in Mission Viejo at The Microsoft Store, 578 The Shops at Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo, CA 92691. 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.

Exploring Team Build based on Workflow 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 ALM

With Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management, Team Build is based on Workflow 4.0. In this session we’ll explore what Workflow adds to make a better build experience and show you how you can customize the workflow to suit your specific automation needs.

Out of the "box" the default build workflow does not include deployment. In this session we will add a simple deployment to a test location. In addition we'll discuss many other customization options to provide further automation to your application lifecycle.

Mike Vincent

Mike Vincent is a solutions architect based in Orange County, California providing clients with application lifecycle management and software architecture training and consultation primarily focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. He has been in the software business for over 20 years in addition to marketing management and engineering positions.

Actively involved in the user group community since the early 90's, Mike is Vice President of INETA Noram. He founded the SoCal .Net Architecture group, the Orange County C# Developers group, now OC .NET and SoCal Team System and has organized several regional conferences. Mike is a frequent presenter at developer events. He is a Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management MVP, Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Practitioner.

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

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010

Author: Mickey Gousset, Brian Keller, Ajoy Krishnamoorthy, Martin Woodward

Leverage Visual Studio 2010 to develop and deploy your next project.

Downloads & Links


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
Herding Pigs - Managing Self Organizing Teams	Mike Vincent	June 2010