The New Year is off to a great start with an email from Microsoft congratulating me on receiving the Microsoft MVP award for 2008. This is my second year as an MVP and I’m looking forward to being even more active in the VSTS community during 2008.

The official launch of Visual Studio 2008 is only a couple of months away and I’m getting ready to present the following session at the Wave Launch events around the country.

Visual Studio 2008 and Application Lifecycle Management

Managing the Application Development Lifecycle complexity is always a challenge and Visual Studio 2008 Team System picks up where Visual Studio 2005 left off and provides development teams with sophisticated tracking, profiling, analysis, configuration, testing and work load profiling tools.

The tools and procedures provided by Team System are essential to ensuring teams operate productively and that solutions are well designed and released on time with a consistent high quality metric.

Dates and Venues

• Thursday 28 February – Sydney
• Tuesday 4 March – Melbourne
• Thursday 13 March – Adelaide
• Wednesday 19 March – Perth
• Wednesday 26 March – Brisbane
• Wednesday 2 April – Canberra