Abstract:

Visual Studio and its companion Team Foundation Server underwent significant reorganization and rebranding for the 2010 release.  We’ll explore the changes since the 2008 product line in terms of high level features and provide an overview of the ALM features present in the tools.  For those of you using 2008 or prior, this talk will help you to understand where you can find old and new features a like.  We’ll demonstrate a few of the more high profile ones.

Bio:

Chris Kadel is a Principal with Polaris Solutions, LLC (http://www.polarissolutions.com) – a leading ALM focused consultancy based out of Chicago, IL.  Chris has been in the IT industry for 13 years and has been both a corporate IT developer as well as consultant.  Since founding Polaris Solutions, Chris has been most excited about Application Lifecycle Management and Agile methodologies.  Chris works his days at his clients as a solution architect and sometimes a developer.  Lately, Chris has started the Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group (http://chicagoalmug.org) where the focus of that group is the topics surrounding Visual Studio and TFS.