Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate / Premium Services
For questions or more details, please contact Notion Solutions at 972.607.4830 or via email at sales@notionsolutions.com.
Overview
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (formerly Visual Studio Team System 2010) is an entirely new series of productive, integrated life-cycle tools that help development teams communicate and collaborate more effectively. Based on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008, the new Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides tools to support the entire software development team—solution architects, analysts, product managers, developers, and testers.
At Notion Solutions, Inc. our primary focus is to maximize your success with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (or Premium). Our process is unique. We work with you to understand your environment and culture. We ask questions. We provide constant communication. And most important, we deliver a truly holistic approach to adopting Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (or Premium) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010.
Installing and Admininstering Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (or Premium)
Many organizations are choosing to adopt Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate / Premium (with Team Foundation Server 2010) for various reasons. Whether your decision is based on a better source control system, the testing tools or primarily a cost factor, we can help. You may not quite understand the full capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate or how to get started. We recommend a 'three-phased' approach that consists of training, consulting and an effective installation.
Maybe you are still evaluating Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and are unsure if it is the right solution for you? You have seen demos and heard it costs less than competitor tools, but you still have questions? Notion Solutions offers Envisioning Sessions and/or Proof of Concepts. We can guide you through the features of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate as you try to understand how the product can help your organization.
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Upgrading to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (or Premium)
The goal of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Migration Planning Workshop is to create a roadmap for migrating a company to Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate/Premium (VS 2010) and Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS 2010). This is done by reviewing the capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and TFS 2010 and also reviewing how a company is using Visual Studio Team System 2005 or 2008 today. In order for many of the new features of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to function, changes will need to be made to the existing environment. Whether you’re looking for the new dashboard reporting features, or the new test case management features, simply upgrading an existing environment won’t be sufficient. SharePoint, report and process template changes will need to be made, and training will need to take place. The deliverable for this workshop is a report that contains information gathered from the workshop, an evaluation of your current Microsoft Visual Studio Team System environment and its use, and a roadmap detailing how to most effectively migrate your existing environment to Visual Studio 2010 Ulimate / Premium.
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Implementing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Best Practices
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Team Foundation Server 2010 best practices are implemented using Notion Solutions' Jumpstart programs. Jumpstarts are engagements designed to help you adopt a specific discipline, select processes and/or tools. For larger institutions, jumpstarts can help individual teams or pilot users with the desired adoption. For smaller organizations, a jumpstart may be the basis for a full organizational implementation. Although the specific contents of each jumpstart varies, most include some amount of discovery, implementation, and training. Many individual jumpstarts can be completed in just a few days of effort. Jumpstarts typically involve improving one or more Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices through tool implementation, training, and process improvement.
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Testing with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Test Elements 2010
The new testing tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Visual Studio Test Elements 2010 deliver a brand new experience for test planning and for manual and automated test execution, enabling your team to break the silo between testing and development. During this Jumpstart program, Notion will rapidly introduce your team to the Visual Studio 2010 testing tools, identify your quality assurance needs, and quickly get your team up and going using the new Visual Studio 2010 testing tools.
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Customizing / Extending Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate was built from the ground up with customization in mind. It provides many great tools and services out of the box. But to truly take advantage of its power, you'll want to adapt it to better fit into your environment. Notion Solutions provides experience in customizing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Team Foundation Server 2010 to fit your needs.
In addition to the extreme flexibility Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate offers for customization, it also provides a vast framework for extensibility. We can develop custom components and add-ins to make VS 2010 completely successful in your environment. As part of our services offerings, we will work with you to define your requirements and build Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate / Team Foundation Server 2010 extensions to fit your needs.
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Migrating and Integrating Other Systems with TFS 2010
Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 can be extended and integrated with existing corporate systems in your environment. This includes, but is not imited to:
° Synchronizing Team System with existing version control or work item tracking systems.
° Integration with Project Server.
° Integration with Remedy.
° Help Desk Application Integration with Team Foundation Server (TFS).
° ... and many more!
Implementing TFS 2010 Best Practices with Java/Non-Windows
Notion Solutions offers a special Jumpstart program that focuses on planning and implementation of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 with the Teamprise Client Suite for development activities beyond Microsoft and the Windows platform. This jumpstart assists development teams using mixed and non-Microsoft platforms with the appropriate adoption of work item tracking, version control, and automated build and test technologies.
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Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - Training Courses
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Overview of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (4-Day Course): The Visual Studio 2010 Overview course provides students with the knowledge and skills to improve the development practices of their entire organization and team. A broad set of features provided with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate will be covered to assist your team with application design, test management and execution, development standards and collaboration, automated build and release management, database schema management and test lab management. This course covers all of the most important features without going overly deep. By the end of the course, students are equipped to better understand how Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate can be used within their organizations. This course is currently taught using Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
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Tester Training for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (4-Day Course): The Tester Training course provides students with the knowledge and skills to use the latest testing tools provided by Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to improve their ability to manage and execute test plans. Test case creation and management will be covered, as well as test execution and automation practices. Creating and managing virtual lab environments using Team Lab will be discussed within the context of test planning and execution. By the end of the course, students are equipped begin planning the implementation of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate for improving testing practices within their organizations. This course is currently taught using Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
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Developer Training for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (4-Day Course): The Developer Training course provides students with the knowledge and skills to improve the development practices of their organization and team. This course focuses on improving interaction between team members as well as enhancing architecture compliance, coding practices and debugging techniques using tools all integrated directly into Visual Studio 2010. By the end of the course, students are equipped to enforce architecture and coding standards, perform unit testing during builds, setup gated checkin processes, use historical debugging, uncover performance bottlenecks and interact better with test teams. This course is currently taught using Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
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Database Training for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (4-Day Course): The Database Training course provides knowledge and skills to manage database objects using Team Foundation Version Control, Team Foundation Build, and tools that aid in database testing, test data generation and deployment all integrated directly into Visual Studio 2010. By the end of the course, students are equipped to use managed techniques for testing, versioning and deploying databases to create high-quality databases. This course is currently taught using Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
For questions or more details, please contact Notion Solutions at 972.607.4830 or via email at sales@notionsolutions.com.