Interviews

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.

Best practices building the [new name] – Brian Harry’s last interview at Microsoft

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.

LINQPad Demo with Joseph Albahari

Book Adam Now In our final video from TechED Australia, Adam Cogan interviews Joseph about LINQPad: • Why he created it • Joseph’s LINQPad website • Bananas • Pricing

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…

TechED 2011 Gold Coast – An in-depth look at PluralSight.net with Aaron Skonnard

Book Adam Now Part 1: The History of Pluralsight.net Adam Cogan talks to Aaron about Pluralsight. He covers: • The history behind Pluralsight • What it offers to the community Part 2: Pluralsight Walkthrough Click here to see the backup video Adam takes a closer look at Pluralsight.net and walks us through: • The course…

SharePoint & Infrastructure with Michael Noel

In this final video from SharePoint Saturday in Sydney, Adam Cogan speaks to Michael about: • His latest book ‘SharePoint Unleashed 2010’ • All things SharePoint 2010.

Useful Tips for Document Management with Russ Norton

Document Management tips with Russ Norton

Book Adam Now Adam Cogan is joined by Russ Norton of 3grow Limited to talk about: Document management Taxonomies Focusonomies Tagging

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…