If you haven’t seen it already, SSW are running a nationwide TFS and SharePoint 2010 event that lands in Perth Weds, March 3rd.
Session 1 (9am – 1pm): Team Foundation Server 2010
Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) for Successful Project Management
How to successfully gather requirements with User stories
The right way to use work items
The way to complete a work items and send a ‘done’
How to use templates for your standard work items
The extra work items that developers always forget
What is good and bad about Excel and Project integration
What you can use from the built in reporting as well as the Project portals available from the SharePoint dashboard
The important reports to give your Project Manager
Visual Studio 2010 Team System – An Overview. Visual Studio 2010 Testing with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 – the life of a bug
What the new features for testers and developers
How you now care – even if the tester can’t reproduce the bug
How to stop struggling to find the source of the bug in your code
How can you streamline the testing process and make sure you don’t repeat the same bugs
How to automate more and reproduce bugs easier and discover problems sooner.
Session 2 (2pm – 6pm): SharePoint 2010
What’s new in SharePoint 2010
UX support for Silverlight and Ajax
Their Web Content Management System
Digital Asset Management System (for videos)
Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint 2010
Developer Platform
Office 2010 integration
RESTful Web API
Tagging and Rating
Something About Mary (SharePoint and Office 2010)
Using SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 together
Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like CRM 4 and TFS
Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into business processes (separate from SharePoint)
Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with SharePoint to improve visibility/searchability/versioning across the company
Overview of how data can be synchronized between SharePoint and external data sources (eg using Access and Excel)
Overview of what ‘workflow’ (really!) means
How Office can be incorporated into company workflows with SharePoint
Extending SharePoint with Office SharePoint Designer 2010 (free!)
Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be developed
Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations (eg the the Atlassian SharePoint Connector and Atlassian Office Connector)
The cost of this 1 day only event is 190 for both. You can book a place at the above link.
Both sessions will be presented by Adam Cogan, who is the Chief Architect at SSW and one of only 3 Microsoft Regional Directors in Australia. I have seen Adam present several times and his delivery is always very good.