Scrum Master Stephen Forte Teaches Agile Development, Silverlight and BI at GIDS 2010

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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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