Are you free this coming Monday night? If so, I’d like to ask you out…to attend the St. Louis .NET User Group meeting. This month’s speaker is Jeff Fattic, a Technical Team Lead at Quilogy in St. Charles. Jeff’s talk is entitled Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Exposed. Here is the abstract:

Most statistical organizations estimate the historical rate of software development project success at 33%! What factors contribute to this? Poor requirements, lack of formal process, insufficient testing, insufficient training, and much more! Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the combination of formal process and specialized tools used to make software development projects more successful. While it requires some additional effort and investment, it can help your development department get to market quicker, meet governance criteria, improve quality, meet and beat budgets and schedules. In this discussion, I hope to show you how to use Visual Studio Team System to cover many of the aspects of Visual Studio Team System.

ALM is the most important topic that not nearly enough people discuss, and Jeff brings considerable experience to the table in this discussion. This should be a great talk and I hope to see a full house. Here are the meeting details:

Date:
Monday, January 26, 2009

Location:
Microsoft Offices
Three City Place Drive, Suite 1100
St. Louis, MO  63141

Schedule:
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Welcome
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM: Program

This month’s meeting is sponsored by Talentporte. I’ll see you there.