Azure session with Chappel was pretty good. I have a better perspective on where Azure fits in.
Then attended: OFC03-INT - Integrating Application Lifecycle Management and Project Portfolio Management. Very interesting demo of how an organization ‘could’ build an end-to-end portfolio management toolset using Sharepoint + Project Server + Project Portfolio Server + TFS.
Makes a great scenario, but lots of heavy lifting and integration to put the scenario together. Lots of pieces were custom, based on codeplex projects or simply require you to use a product the right way.
Boy, would be GREAT if this scenario was REALLY achievable without a huge amount of development/integration effort. Definitely going to dig in deeper as I see huge value to organizations to have this end-to-end view.
Now attending DPR04-INT - Tools and Agile Teams. Had to check out the boss’s session. (Joel is doing it).
Joel is showing some of our work we’ve been doing on the TV. We’ll see what people say about it. We’ll be talking about it a lot more over the next couple of weeks.
Drinks and food to come tonight. Hope tomorrow is as good as today!
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Breakfast was pretty unimpressive. Egg omelet things and some nasty sausage patties. I went for a bagel and yogurt.
The keynote was very IT centric talking about Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Some very cool new features around virtualization. And the big news is that both will be available for the holiday season (as expected).
There was also a sneak peek into Office 2010 and Exchange 2010 which promise to improve ability to manage mail. Search looks improved (especially able to search attachments with OWA).
While having breakfast this morning I was able to synch my mail and found out that I got on the list to get a free Palm Treo to use for the week from Palm and Sprint. Free voice and data. VERY BIG DEAL since the roaming charges on my Rogers plan from Canada are obscene for my iPhone. I have to give it back at the end of the week with a survey. Not a bad deal.
OK. I’m off to my first breakout where I’m gonna check out Dave Chappell’s Azure Services Platform talk.
More to come…
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