The success of agile practices is now widely recognized. Even tools such as Microsoft Team Foundation Server now support an agile development framework such as Scrum. Unfortunately, Scrum requires discarding all the existing processes which is usually too risky for large organizations. Experience shows that a change too radical and too fast does not respect the learning curve of the teams. There must be a better way. Instead of implementing a canned, one-sized fits all framework that forces a radical change, enhancing Team Foundation Server with key elements that represents the best of agile, organizations can easily start a continuous improvement process and take advantage of Scrum much faster than they could have imagined.
The Team Foundation Tour was specifically designed by Mario Cardinal to address this need. Get a head start in adopting agile practices with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Here is the course listing:
- -Beyond Scrum with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010
- -Tests with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010
About the instructor
Mario Cardinal is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture. He love to extract the essence of a complicated situation, sort out the core ideas from the incidental distractions, and provide a summary easy to understand. He speaks regularly about architecture and agility at international conferences. Since 2004, he hosted the Visual Studio Talk Show, a podcast about software architecture. He also leads the architecture user group for the Montreal .Net Community and is the architecture track tech chair for the DevTeach Conference. For the seventh year in a row, he has received from Microsoft the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Mario holds Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Master of Technology Management degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. He also holds the titles of Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Team Foundation Server), and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. He shares his free-time with his wife, Nathalie and their four children