Earlier this month Anthony Borton, Lead ALM Consultant at Enhance ALM, and Steven Borg, Co-founder and Strategist at Northwest Cadence, delivered a very successful Jumpstart for Microsoft Virtual Academy. This FREE day-long online session helped prepare attendees prepare for exam 70-498: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management. The JumpStart was attended by over 626 unique individuals from 72 different countries. If you missed the session, I’m pleased to announce it is now available on-demand at http://t.co/Qlcwj92Eg3. From the evaluations it was one of the highest rated online events of the year – Great Job guys!
Not to rest on their laurels they are offering two more of these Jumpstarts next week!
Two New FREE JumpStart Sessions
Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012 (exam 70-497) Jump Start
May 28th, 2013 9am-5pm (PDT)
Some of the major topics covered include:
- Create and Configure Test Plans
- Create Test Plan Properties
- Define and Configure Test Settings
- Create and Configure Test Suites - Manage Test Cases:
- Create Test Cases and Steps
- Define Parameters
- Manage Shared Steps and Requirements - Manage Test Execution:
- Run and Analyze Recommended Tests
- Perform Exploratory Testing and Analysis
- Manage Bugs and Work Items
Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 (exam 70-496) Jump Start
May 29th, 2013 9am-5pm (PDT)
Some of the major topics covered include:
- Install and Configure Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server
- Manage Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server
- Customize Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server for Team Use
- Administer Version Control
Anthony Borton | ALM MVP & Scrum Trainer | @AnthonyBorton
Anthony Borton is an ALM trainer and consultant for Enhance ALM, an Australian based company specializing in helping organizations successfully adopt ALM best practices. He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM as well as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Anthony is an engaging speaker with experience presenting at conferences around the world including Microsoft TechEd in the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He is the author of eight TFS 2012 training courses and delivers the most comprehensive range of TFS courses in the world today. Anthony was Australia’s first Professional Scrum Developer (.NET) Trainer and has completed over 58 Microsoft certification exams. He was one of the first people in the world to earn the new Microsoft Certified Solution Developer: Application Lifecycle Management certification. You can find out more about his courses at ALM Training.
Steven Borg | Co-Founder and Strategist | @stevenborg
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.
