As part of the trainer prep for the Microsoft Metro program, I have spent the past three days in Singapore learning all the latest things about Visual Studio 2008 including .NET Framework 3.5, WCF, WF, WPF, LINQ, C# 3.0, VB 9.0, OBA, VSTO and more…

Today (final day) I had the pleasure of watching Brian Keller (Team System Technical Evangelist) talk about Application Lifecycle Management. Rather than deliver sessions outlining the technical features of each of the VSTS 2008 role specific SKUs, Brian delivered some great sessions on the benefits of an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toolset and then proceeded to examine these benefits from the prospective of each of the team members. Much to Greg’s disappointment Datadude missed out on a separate module but I’m sure this will be rectified soon.

My good friends Alan Dias & Boon Tiong were also on the training.