Jeff Beehler, a Program Manager for Team Foundation Server will be doing a session on Visual Studio Team System on the 21st of March at Midday. You can register for the event by .
For those of you who want a more detail abstract – read on:
With the imminent release of Team Foundation Server we have managed to bring the Program Manager that is in charge of shipping this product-Jeff Beehler. <http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2006/01/22/515843.aspx> to Australia. Jeff's hour long presentation will cover the features that make Team Foundation Server unique in the industry for doing team development such as it's integrated version control, work Items/lists, collaboration, notifications, reporting and an automated build process but since Jeff real passion is in team dynamics <http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2006/01/22/515843.aspx> we have asked him to also cover the processes and methods he employed to ship this product.
About Jeff Beehler
I've been the Lead Program Manager for VSTS for the past 2 ½ years. In this role, I coordinate the release activities for all of Team System including our upcoming release of Team Foundation Server. As a result I'm involved with each of the teams shipping VSTS, but most directly the team building the Team Foundation since this is the integration point for all of Team System. It's exciting to see the excitement VSTS is generating both within Microsoft as well as the .NET development community. Before working on VSTS, I was a founding member of the Visual C++ team way back in the early 90's (and even QuickC for Windows before that). I took some time off between working on VC++ and VSTS (a little over 7 years) to start a family, consult with ISVs on how to ship software, work for an Internet start up and teach 6th grade. I returned to Microsoft because I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to be on the team that helped expand Visual Studio beyond 'just' writing code. It's been a great experience.