This session will give you a good overview of the new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) features that are included inside the new release of Visual Studio 2010. The next release of Visual Studio will certainly become a true platform for productive, integrated, and extensible software development life-cycle tools that helps software teams by improving communication and collaboration throughout the software development process. With the new licensing model and the Team Foundation Server 2010 Basic Installation, small development team will also benefit greatly from the integrated team development experience: Version Control, Work Item Management and Build Automation.

Speaker:
Pieter Gheysens is the founder of Sparkles (www.sparkles.be) and focuses as a Team System MVP and Certified Scrum Master on Application Lifecycle Management solutions for the Microsoft .NET Development Platform based on Team Foundation Server. During the last 10 years, Pieter has been involved in many large enterprise development projects as a developer, team lead and software architect. He's passionate about setting up the optimal team development environment to deliver high quality software and strives to get the best out of people, tools and processes. You can read about his experiences at intovsts.net. Since a few years now, Pieter is the User Group Lead for the Belgian Visual Studio User Group (www.visug.be) which organizes many free technical community events with local and international speakers.