Efficient distributed software development – best practices and pitfalls

Tag und Uhrzeit: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2009 - 15.15 - 16.15 Uhr Raum Paris

Inhalt:
Although Team System offers great support for the distributed development, every team is confronted with many challenges while organizing their distributed development environment and process. Even after infrastructure is up and running, there are many pitfalls to be avoided when you define your future standard work procedures. In the session we will discuss the best and worst practices in a range of “soft skills” topics like team dynamics, communication patterns, project management and development process applied to the distributed team and the distributed development environment. The last year’s session covered most of relevant TFS related infrastructure topics. Building on that, this year we will discuss a number of advice on how to successfully run or be a part of a Team System based distributed development team.

Ognjen Bajic is architect and project manager at Croatian company Ekobit (www.ekobit.com). Previously, for more than a decade he was full time C++ and .NET developer. Ognjen manages teams that develop commercial software packages, some of which are sold in hundreds of thousands of copies. His main point of interest are the agile software development methodologies used to develop high quality, (almost :-)) bug free software. He has been working with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System since summer 2004 and has been speaking extensively about his experiences at various local and international events like Microsoft WinDays, Microsoft TechEd or Basta!. Ognjen is PMP (Project Management Professional), MCSD and MCSD.NET (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer), MCTS:TFS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Team Foundation Server) and MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Team System.

Ivan Kardum is a consultant, project manager and a developer lead in a Croatian software development company Ekobit (www.ekobit.com). His special technology skills and interests are mostly related to Microsoft development platform and tools like Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft Pattern & Practices product and .NET development. His other technical interests besides MS development platform are Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and project management in general. Formally, he is certified as a Project manager (PMP), as a solution developer (MCSD) and as a technology specialist for Team Foundation Server (MCTS:TFS).