The warm weather in Seattle has definitely seems to have had an effect on everything!
My feature team (Load Test) is ahead of schedule, the flower gardens are in full bloom and and the folks at Northwest Cadence seem to be ON FIRE with over 20 ALM and DevOps events for people to attend.
With Dan, Rennie and Steve (one of the all time best TechEd presenters) running the show you know they will be great events!
In-person Events:
CloudFest: an Azure How to Get Going Workshop
Mar. 31. 15 | Register | Irvine, CA
Apr. 01. 15 | Register | Los Angeles, CA
Apr. 29. 15 | Register | Anchorage, AK
DevOps & DevTest Bootcamps
Apr. 08. 15 | Register | Boise, ID
Apr. 21. 15 | Register | Mountain View, CA (slightly different title, same material)
May. 13. 15 | Register | Sacramento
May. 21. 15 | Register | Bellevue
5 Day Azure Training Event
Apr. 20-24. 15 | Build Applications with Azure PaaS– Bellevue, WA
Cloud for the Enterprise
Apr. 28. 15 | Register | Vancouver, BC
Webcast Events:
Coffee Talks Webcasts
Mar. 19. 15 | DevTest: From Zero to Testing in Minutes
Apr. 02. 15 | Is it time for Release Management?
Apr. 16. 15 | A Lap around Azure and ALM
May. 07. 15 | DevOps: A Partnership Made in the Cloud
May. 21. 15 | DevOps: Highlights of Hybrid Active Directory
Jun. 04. 15 | DevTest: Saas + Azure = Agility
Jun. 18. 15 | DevTest: From Zero to Testing in Minutes
Canada Azure Webcast Series
Mar. 26. 15 | Architecting and Implementing an Azure PaaS application
Apr. 09. 15 | Production-Ready with Azure DevTest
Apr. 23. 15 | DevOps in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure
May. 14. 15 | Performance and Load Testing
Steven Borg
Steven Borg is the Co-Founder and Strategist of Northwest Cadence. Steven has been a Microsoft ALM MVP since product inception in 2005, speaks regularly at Software Development and Visual Studio conferences, and has authored Microsoft courseware and white papers on Team Foundation Server, regulatory compliance in software development, Scrum, and Lean. Steven has helped hundreds of organizations, both large and small, adopt Visual Studio ALM tools, improving their software development process, reducing costs, increasing quality and speeding delivery dates. His expertise lies in bringing successful lean and agile adoption to companies currently using traditional project management techniques to manage software development projects.
Dan Wood
Dan is a Senior ALM Consultant/Trainer at Northwest Cadence. He has more than 20 years of experience in information technology and has extensive experience as a senior database architect, developer and administrator. He has authored and co-authored several books on SQL Server and the SQL language. In addition to designing and implementing many successful TFS installations, he has consulted and trained organizations of all sizes on end-to-end ALM with Visual Studio. Dan spent 20 years on submarines in the U.S. Navy and has a passion for getting it right the first time. He is currently an ALM consultant with Northwest Cadence; where technology meets teamwork.
Rennie Araucto
Rennie is an ALM Consultant with Northwest Cadence. In addition to his Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio, and training skills, he has an extensive background in server technologies, ALM and project management. He holds certifications in various technical areas, and brings a wealth of management and soft-skills experience to his engagements. His varied technology background includes application development, network architecture and system engineering. Over the last 15 years he has taught over 4000 students and over 300 classes.
