How to become a certified Microsoft Master

Three top Aussies, Alexandre Bacchin of Dimension Data, Elaine Van Burgan of OBS and Gerald De Run also from OBS, talk to Adam Cogan about: What it takes to achieve the illustrious ‘Microsoft Certified Master’ qualification The various steps it takes to achieve the qualification, including: What pre-assesments there are What knowledge you must already…

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SnagIt, Jing and Camtasia with Betsy Weber

Book Adam Now Part 1: Overview Click here to see the backup video In the first part, Betsy talks to Adam about: • The various products of Techsmith • The fascinating history of Techsmith and the development culture Part 2: Snagit Click here to see the backup video We take a look at Adam Cogan’s…

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BUILD 2011 – An Interview with TFS Legend Brian Harry

Adam Cogan is joined by Brian Harry of TFS fame. In this exclusive interview, they discuss:

• How Brian Harry manages his team and his lifestyle
• VSS vs TFS
• The success and scale of TFS
• TFS as a service
• Testing
• Screenshots for bug reporting in TFS 2011
• Customer interaction in bug reporting and how TFS will solve the various issues in the future
• Backgroung on how storyboarding was introduced into PowerPoint and a usability study (vs Balsamic)
• The importance of connecting to customers
• Adam’s farming ability

Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server – a server-based product designed to dramatically improve the productivity, predictability, and agility of software development teams by ensuring that all team members have easy access to the information they need to make the right decisions at the right time.

Outside of work, Harry’s primary passions are family, wood working and farming. Harry has a substantial wood working shop and builds all sorts of wooden objects with a strong emphasis on the lathe. Harry is also very active with his children, serving as a leader in his sons’ Cub Scout troop.

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User Voice and Visual Studio 2012 with Doug Turnure of Microsoft

Adam Cogan interviews Doug Turnure, the man in charge of all user feedback involving TFS and Visual Studio over at Microsoft. They cover:

  • Doug’s history at Microsoft
  • How Doug manages and orginazes the feedback using User Voice
  • Furture versions of User Voice
  • Indepth look at how Doug uses User Voice to monitor feedback
  • Top feedback suggestion submitted by users

Doug lead’s the feedback and early adoption strategy for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. This includes both strategic planning and driving process improvements, which can get fairly complex for a distributed team of more than 1000 people.
His specific areas include pre-release technology adoption by enterprise customers, Improved listening systems for better conversations with customers, and end-to-end process improvement for handling customer feedback.

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Carl Franklin: Rocking out with .NET Rocks!

In 2002, Carl Franklin started something pretty special and known well throughout the .NET community of developers.

.NET Rocks, with its 1000’s (and 1000’s) of listeners around the world, provides very interesting and valuable information to anyone who is interested in software development.

Adam Cogan, who had previously appeared on the show, wanted to know more about the success behind .NET Rocks! and its founder, so he sat down with Carl to chat about everything .NET Rocks!

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