Scrum Master Stephen Forte Teaches Agile Development, Silverlight and BI at GIDS 2010
Rajesh Ahuja
BI at GIDS 2010
Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 – Gold Standard for India's
Software Developer Ecosystem
Bangalore, March 25, 2010: The author of several books on application
and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 and
certified Scrum Master Stephen Forte is coming this summer to India's
biggest summit for the developer ecosystem - Great Indian Developer
Summit (http://www.developersummit.com/). At the summit, Stephen will
conduct a workshop guaranteed to give attendees a jump start in taking
a certified scrum master exam. Scrum, one of the most popular Agile
project management and development methods, which is starting to be
adopted at major corporations and on very large projects. After an
introduction to the basics of Scrum like project planning and
estimation, the Scrum Master, team, product owner and burn down, and
of course the daily Scrum, Stephen will show many real world
applications of the methodology drawn from his own experience as a
Scrum Master. Negotiating with the business, estimation and team
dynamics are all discussed as well as how to use Scrum in small
organizations, large enterprise environments and consulting
environments. Stephen will also discuss using Scrum with virtual teams
and an off-shoring environment. He will then take a look at the tools
we will use for Agile development, including planning poker, unit
testing, and much more.
On 20th April at the GIDS.NET Conference, Stephen will also conduct a
series of sessions on Microsoft computing technologies. He will teach
how to build data driven, n-tier Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with
Silverlight 4.0. Line of business applications (LOB) in Silverlight
4.0 are easy by tapping the power of WCF RIA Services, the Silverlight
Toolkit, and elevated out of browser support. Stephen's demo centric
session will walk you through an example of building a LOB application
with Silverlight 4.0. See how Silverlight and WCF RIA Services support
domain logic, services, data binding, validation, server based paging,
authentication, authorization and much more. Silverlight 4.0 means
business.
Silverlight runs C# and Visual Basic code, and so it seems natural
that a business application might share some code between the
Silverlight client and its ASP.NET Web server. You may want to run
some code client-side for interactivity, but re-run that code on the
server for security or reliability. This is possible, and there are
several techniques you can use to accomplish this goal. In Stephen's
second talk learn about the various techniques and their pros and
cons. Some techniques work better in C#, others in VB. Still others
are simpler with a little extra tooling or code-generation. Any
serious Silverlight business application will almost certainly face
this issue, and this session gets you going fast.
In the third talk, Stephen will explain how to properly architect and
deploy a BI application using a mix of some exciting new tools and
some old familiar ones. He will start with a traditional relational
transaction centric database (OLTP) and explore ways to build a data
warehouse (OLAP), looking at the star and snowflake schemas. Next he
will look at the process of extraction, transformation, and loading
(ETL) your OLTP data into your data warehouse. Different techniques
for ETL will be described and the various tradeoffs will be discussed.
Then he will look at using the warehouse for reporting, drill down,
and data analysis in Microsoft Excel's PowerPivot 2010. The session
will round off by showing how to properly build a cube and build a
data analysis application on top of that cube, and conclude by looking
at some tools to help with the data visualization process.
Every year, GIDS is a game changer for several thousands of IT
professionals, providing them with a competitive edge over their
peers, enlightening them with bleeding-edge information most useful in
their daily jobs, helping them network with world-class experts and
visionaries, and providing them with a much needed thrust in their
careers. Attend Great Indian Developer Summit to gain the information,
education and solutions you seek. From post-conference workshops,
breakout sessions by expert instructors, keynotes by industry
heavyweights, enhanced networking opportunities, and more. for more
information, visit: http://www.developersummit.com.
About Great Indian Developer Summit
Great Indian Developer Summit is the gold standard for India's
software developer ecosystem for gaining exposure to and evaluating
new projects, tools, services, platforms, languages, software and
standards. Packed with premium knowledge, action plans and advise from
been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries, the 2010
edition of Great Indian Developer Summit features focused sessions,
case studies, workshops and power panels that will transform you into
a force to reckon with. Featuring 3 co-located conferences: GIDS.NET,
GIDS.Web, GIDS.Java and an exclusive day of in-depth tutorials -
GIDS.Workshops, from 20 April to 24 April at the IISc campus in
Bangalore.
At GIDS you'll participate in hundreds of sessions encompassing the
full range of Microsoft computing, Java, Agile, RIA, Rich Web, open
source/standards, languages, frameworks and platforms, practical
tutorials that deep dive into technical skill and best practices,
inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of
the latest projects and products activities, engaging networking
events, and the interact with the best and brightest of speakers from
around the world.
For further information on GIDS 2010, please visit the summit on the
web http://www.developersummit.com/
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