A full day seminar presented by Mark Skoog and Kevin Hammond, Microsoft. This workshop is being coordinated by Dr. Atish Sinha, Associate Professor in the MIS area at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

Overview

This workshop will equip developers and architects with the fundamentals necessary to take software design and development to the next level. The session opens with a foundation in service oriented architecture (SOA) and Composite Application Architecture and continues with practical, real-world implementations using the new Visual Studio 2005 Team System, due for release in November 2005. Join us for a look at architecture principals that are making development more reliable and cost effective, and then stay for a peek at this revolutionary new development suite. This workshop will be interactive and will contain presentations along with solution demonstrations. Topics Service Oriented Architecture. We are on the cusp of building "plug-compatible" software components that will reduce the costs of our software systems, while at the same time increasing the capabilities of the systems. Yes, you have heard that promise more than once before, and more than once, the delivery fell short of the promise. However, promises can some day come true, and that time is now! Mark Skoog, an enterprise architect from Microsofts Developer and Platform Evangelism team, will introduce the key concepts and business value behind development in a services oriented architecture. Then you will have a chance to test your knowledge using real-world tools and implementations. Composite Applications. The era of software development makes it imperative that we create applications built by combining multiple services. A composite application consists of functionality drawn from several different sources within a service oriented architecture. The components may be individual Web services, selected functions from within other applications, or entire systems whose outputs have been packaged as Web services. Mark Skoog will help you understand the ins and outs and how to take advantage of these new concepts in a practical manner. Enterprise Software Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System: Parts I and II. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System ushers in a new era of quality and control in the enterprise software lifecycle, making developers more productive, providing business owners with better clarity on project status, and uniting infrastructure and application architecture. Kevin Hammond, an architect evangelist from Microsofts Developer and Platform Evangelism team, will demonstrate how to manage requirements and change management, as well as modeling and implementation of software projects using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

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About the speaker

Mark Skoog is an enterprise architect in the Midwest District for Microsoft Corporation. Mark travels across the country delivering Microsofts .NET vision. He is responsible for aligning business strategies with technical architectures and solutions for some of Microsofts largest customers and has achitected a wide range of solutions for a variety of Fortune 500 customers. Kevin W. Hammond is an architect evangelist with Microsoft, spreading the word about the advantages of development on the .NET platform. A member of MSDNs architectural community, Kevin pioneered work on reliable messaging transports for Web services. He works with the largest customers in the Midwest on adopting Web services and building service-oriented architectures.

Who should Attend?

Software Solution Architects Technical Managers Software Developers

Coordinator

This workshop is being coordinated by Dr. Atish Sinha, Associate Professor in the MIS area at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.