Askhat Urazbayev and Viktor Strelkov will hold a Scrum master class as part of DevCon 2013

Dear software developers and developers!

On behalf of the DevCon 2013 conference team, I am pleased to announce the holding of a Scrum master class at the conference : theory and practice in V isual Studio 2012 by the guru of flexible development methodologies Askhat Urazbaev and Viktor Strelkov.
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Want to learn more about flexible methodologies? Interested in using Scrum in software development? Do you use Visual Studio in your team and plan to use Agile and Scrum?

Then a master class from Askhat Urazbayev and Viktor Strelkov will be extremely useful to you!

The purpose of the master class

Scrum is a flexible software development methodology that allows you to accomplish top priority tasks in tight fixed time frames.

Due to its effectiveness and ease of implementation, Scrum has become very popular among developers around the world: almost all software companies use it. The lifecycle management system of the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012 application allows you to fully implement project and product management according to the Scrum methodology, which will be demonstrated in the master class.

The purpose of the master class is to give participants the opportunity to see and try how the ideas of flexible methodologies are practically embodied in TFS 2012 and Visual Studio 2012.

Lecturers of the master class

Askhat Urazbaev - the main ideologist and specialist on Scrum in the company ScrumTrek . Most of all he likes to speak at conferences and give clever advice. Askhat has long been engaged in flexible methodologies, worked as a manager in Agile projects, coached and coached many teams in Russia and the CIS. Prior to Agile, he led the creation and implementation of the Luxoft Standard Process. And before that, he worked in different companies, where he passed the glorious battle path from a junior developer to a project manager.



Victor Strelkov - Head of Research and Quality Control at Positive Technologies . He started working in the team of Positive Technologies in 2007.

He created a unit responsible for the development of infrastructure development in the company, and has successfully managed it for 4 years. Key tasks include: automating the development, assembly, and deployment of existing company projects; implementation of a single ALM system; implementation at the process level and hardware support for advanced software development practices (in particular, Continuous Integration, Code Review, Test Driven Development, Feature Driven Development).

He spoke at ADD-3 and CEE-SECR 2012 conferences. For the last few years he has been fond of flexible methodologies, work with requirements in Agile, and technological aspects of effective support for this work. At the moment, Agile-approach is being actively applied in product development in the role of the Product Owner of a new retail company product.

Master Class Program

1. Introduction to TFS 2012 as a flexible project management tool

• Overview of possible ways to interact with the server TFS 2012
• Easy TFS integration with Microsoft Office elements
• Maintaining project portal on MS SharePoint
• Creating a project based on Scrum v 2.0

2. Scrum in TFS 2012

• Storymapping with PowerPoint
• Team building based on roles and employment in the project
• Backlog filling and prioritization
• Planning Iterations and Releases
• Work with Scrum Board, view Burn Down Chart

3. Project Management

• Life Cycle Product Backlog Items
• Work with workitem, making requests
• Long-Term Planning Based on Velocity Team, Cumulative Flow Analysis
• Configure alerts and access rules

4. Customizing the process through changing the process template

• TFS Process Template Overview
• Features Scrum process template v2.0
• Methods for improving the flexible development process and applying changes in TFS using Visual Studio

About DevCon 2013

DevCon conference is not the first year and has already managed to catch the fancy of Russian developers and guests from other countries. A key feature of this series of conferences is its country format, the venue is carefully chosen from the best guesthouses near Moscow. At the same time, all conference participants drove into a country holiday home and lived there for two days of the conference, receiving all the pleasant advantages of these places.

The key topics for DevCon 2013 will be the following:

• Modern client applications
• Mobile development
• Cloud computing
• Software Development and Lifecycle Management Tools
• Development Technologies and Programming Languages
• Development, monetization and promotion of applications for app stores
• Modern Design Microsoft
• Corporate development, data processing

In addition, the conference participants will have unique access to the functional programming school , intensive training in software testing and the Gaidar Magdanurov master class from Runa Capital.

Details about the DevCon 2013 conference you can read in this announcement or on the official website http://www.msdevcon.ru/ .

Registration for the conference is already open ! Tickets are sold quickly. Hurry up to take your seats!