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      <title>DevWeek - Palestra Promoção de pacotes alpha, beta e stable com Git e VSTS</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/devweek-palestra-promocao-de-pacotes-alpha-beta-e-stable-com-git-e-vsts</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:20:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Serradas]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Olá pessoal! Como vão?

Semana passada tive o prazer de ter uma palestra no Dev Week, organizado...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Olá pessoal! Como vão?

Semana passada tive o prazer de ter uma palestra no Dev Week, organizado pelo Canal .Net com o Renato Groff e o Joel Rodrigues, sobre versões de software - alpha, beta, stable, etc - e como tirar proveito delas usando Git no VSTS.

Que energia bacana! Poucas vezes tive tanta energia para compartilhar e recebi tanto dos participantes. Quero até já deixar meu obrigado a todos os presentes e participantes. Dúvidas e observações muito legais!

Demorei, mas aqui estão os materiais e referências que prometi a vocês.
<p style="text-align: left">Os slides que usei já estão no Slide Share:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><iframe width="595" height="485" src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/lihGfwZVZLJP1l" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> </iframe></p>

<div style="margin-bottom: 5px"><strong> <a target="_blank" href="//www.slideshare.net/rserradas/promoo-de-pacotes-alpha-beta-e-stable-com-git-e-vsts" rel="noopener" title="Promoção de pacotes alpha, beta e stable com Git e VSTS">Promoção de pacotes alpha, beta e stable com Git e VSTS</a> </strong> from <strong><a target="_blank" href="//www.slideshare.net/rserradas" rel="noopener">Ricardo Serradas</a></strong></div>
<p style="text-align: left">O vídeo já está público no YouTube, no Canal .Net:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AyjhC570bZI?rel=0&amp;start=3710" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
E as referências:

Post do Tarun Arora, inspiração desta palestra:

<a href="https://www.visualstudiogeeks.com/DevOps/TeamServicesOneBuildDefinitionToRuleThemAll">https://www.visualstudiogeeks.com/DevOps/TeamServicesOneBuildDefinitionToRuleThemAll</a>

Build Variables:

<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/concepts/definitions/build/variables?tabs=batch">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/concepts/definitions/build/variables?tabs=batch</a>

Release Variables:

<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/concepts/definitions/release/variables?tabs=batch">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/concepts/definitions/release/variables?tabs=batch</a>

Definir e modificar variáveis de build usando scripts:

<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/concepts/definitions/_shared/set-variables-in-scripts?tabs=powershell">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/concepts/definitions/_shared/set-variables-in-scripts?tabs=powershell</a>

Extension:

Colin's ALM Corner Build &amp; Release Tools:

<a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=colinsalmcorner.colinsalmcorner-buildtasks">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=colinsalmcorner.colinsalmcorner-buildtasks</a>

Replace Tokens:

<a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=qetza.replacetokens">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=qetza.replacetokens</a>

Assembly Info:

<a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bleddynrichards.Assembly-Info-Task">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bleddynrichards.Assembly-Info-Task</a>

Agradeço mais uma vez por fazer parte dessa comunidade e aprender e compartilhar conhecimento. Sempre!

Abraço e até a próxima!

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      <title>The costs of manual and automated tests - 2nd Meetup Stone Tech Saturday</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/the-costs-of-manual-and-automated-tests-2nd-meetup-stone-tech-saturday</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Serradas]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hello everyone!

After a long time, here I am. Yesterday I talked to lots of incredible people...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello everyone!

After a long time, here I am. Yesterday I talked to lots of incredible people about DevOps, Software Quality and Test Automation. These three subjects are directly associated and we spent some time discussing it there.

[caption id="attachment_255" align="aligncenter" width="300"]<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2017/07/Stone-Tech-Saturday.jpg"><img src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2017/07/Stone-Tech-Saturday-300x225.jpg" alt="Nesta hora, calculávamos os custos num raciocínio no Excel" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-255" /></a> That time, we were calculating the costs of the manual testing in a software development[/caption]

It was a Meetup organized by Canal .NET community in a partnership with Stone Pagamentos. Thank you both for the opportunity! One more successful event organized by the community. Stone Pagamento's office is an amazing place, I was thrilled when I got there!

BTW, they're hiring good developers. I guess you should <a href="https://www.stone.com.br/trabalhenastone/">give it a try</a> :-)

As I already said, we talked about testing in a DevOps context. Testing in software development context. When we stop, breathe and calculate the costs of Manual Testing vs Automated Testing, we see that we ALWAYS SHOULD consider automating it! Always!

Well, here is the presentation I used to contextualize the subject. As you can see, we already talked about in on <a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricardoserradas/2016/05/09/devops-summit-brazil-2016-it-was-awesome/">DevOps Summit Brasil</a> and this subject is always polemic and raises a series of thinking. That's why is always good to talk about it!

<iframe width="595" height="485" src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/ykGIZLtqNsofLC" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> </iframe>

And below you can download that spreadsheet we built to make some calculations:

<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/05/Manual-vs-Automated-Tests-costs.xlsx">Manual vs Automated Tests costs spreadsheet</a>

I really hope our talk gave you some good message and information to make your days and work better. I learned a lot with you guys!

Improve yourselves. Make your time more useful. Deliver more value in your projects. Automate.

See you next time!

Ricardo Serradas

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      <title>Azure Afternoons #2 - Continuous Delivery de Containers Docker com VSTS e referências para estudo</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/azure-afternoons-2-continuous-delivery-de-containers-docker-com-vsts-e-os-proximos-passos-de-estudo</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2016 22:36:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Olá pessoal!

Na tarde de hoje, aconteceu o Azure Afternoons #2, um evento organizado pelo...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Olá pessoal!

Na tarde de hoje, aconteceu o Azure Afternoons #2, um evento organizado pelo departamento de Marketing em parceria com as áreas de Evangelismo e o Programa MVP da Microsoft.

O evento foi super legal, com palestras interessantíssimas e uma dinâmica bem bacana. Quero deixar, mais uma vez, meu muito obrigado às áreas organizadoras pelo convite e a todos que participaram do evento por torna-lo tão produtivo. Contribuíram com conteúdo:
<ul>
 	<li><strong>Paulo Teixeira</strong>, Cloud Solution Architect, com a palestra <strong>Deep Dive on Azure ARM Templates</strong>;</li>
 	<li><strong>Fabrício Sanchez</strong>, Technical Evangelist, falando sobre <strong>como trabalhar com Microservices no Azure</strong>;</li>
 	<li><strong>Allan Targino</strong>, Technical Evangelist, fazendo um <strong>Deep Dive on Recommendations API</strong>;</li>
 	<li>A minha palestra foi sobre <strong>Continuous Integration e Deployment de Container Docker usando o VSTS</strong>.</li>
</ul>
No final, ainda tivemos um <em>Roundtable</em> para tirar dúvidas do público e também ter uma discussão mais abrangente. Poderíamos ficar conversando sobre nuvem por horas, mas nosso limite era de 60 minutos :-) Você pode conferir a gravação <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/fabriciolopessanchez/videos/1132888616760818/?pnref=story">aqui</a> (link para Facebook Live). Neste bate-papo, contribuíram também o Lucas Romão, MVP e especialista de Azure e a Fernanda Saraiva, Community Program Manager da Microsoft.

As gravações das palestras serão compartilhadas com o público em breve. Fica ligado que vou deixar o link para elas aqui no blog.
<h2>As referências da minha palestra</h2>
Assim como prometido, aqui estão as principais referências para seguir os estudos sobre o tema da minha palestra. Começo com um link super legal para o blog do Donovan Brown, Senior Program Manager de DevOps na Microsoft, sobre como provisionar um Docker Host como Build Agent para o VSTS (ou TFS), sendo possível assim compilar imagens Docker, como vimos na sessão:

<a target="_blank" href="https://donovanbrown.com/post/Building-a-Linux-Based-Visual-Studio-Team-Service-Build-Machine-with-Docker-Support">https://donovanbrown.com/post/Building-a-Linux-Based-Visual-Studio-Team-Service-Build-Machine-with-Docker-Support</a>

E aqui vão as demais referências:
<ul>
 	<li>Docker for Windows
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/windows/">https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/windows/</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
 	<li>Docker Machine
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.docker.com/machine/overview/">https://docs.docker.com/machine/overview/</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
 	<li>Visual Studio Tools for Docker
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MicrosoftCloudExplorer.VisualStudioToolsforDocker-Preview">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MicrosoftCloudExplorer.VisualStudioToolsforDocker-Preview</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
 	<li>Docker Integration for VSTS
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscs-rm.docker">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscs-rm.docker</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
 	<li>Building .NET Core Linux Docker Images with Visual Studio Team Services
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/stevelasker/2016/06/13/building-net-core-linux-docker-images-with-visual-studio-team-services/">https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/stevelasker/2016/06/13/building-net-core-linux-docker-images-with-visual-studio-team-services/</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
 	<li>Docker VSTS Agent image
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/vsts-agent/">https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/vsts-agent/</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
 	<li>Debugging apps num Container Docker local
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vs-azure-tools-docker-edit-and-refresh">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vs-azure-tools-docker-edit-and-refresh</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
 	<li>Docker Machine e Azure Driver
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/azure/">https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/azure/</a></li>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-linux-docker-machine">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-linux-docker-machine</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
 	<li>Microsoft SQL Server no Linux em um Container Docker
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://aka.ms/mssqllinuxdocker">https://aka.ms/mssqllinuxdocker</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
 	<li>Visual Studio Team Services em vídeos: VSTS Sprints
<ul>
 	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/canalvsosprints">https://www.youtube.com/canalvsosprints</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Para completar, aqui estão os slides da palestra:

<iframe width="595" height="485" src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/gEe3xGqZ9EoO7M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> </iframe>
<div style="margin-bottom: 5px"><strong> <a target="_blank" href="//www.slideshare.net/rserradas/implementando-continuous-delivery-com-docker-e-vsts" title="Implementando Continuous Delivery com Docker e VSTS">Implementando Continuous Delivery com Docker e VSTS</a> </strong> from <strong><a target="_blank" href="//www.slideshare.net/rserradas">Ricardo Serradas</a></strong></div>
Se faltou alguma coisa que eu comentei durante a sessão, me avisem!

Um abraço e até a próxima!

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      <title>Microsoft Azure na Universidade São Judas!</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/microsoft-azure-na-universidade-sao-judas</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:22:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Serradas]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Olá pessoal!

Na semana do dia 24/10, tive o prazer de contribuir com um evento super legal na...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Olá pessoal!

<a target="_blank" href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricardoserradas/?attachment_id=216"><img src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/11/Ricardo-Serradas-24.10.2016-5-300x200.jpg" alt="ricardo-serradas-24-10-2016-5" width="300" height="200" class="alignleft wp-image-216 size-medium" /></a>Na semana do dia 24/10, tive o prazer de contribuir com um evento super legal na Universidade São Judas: o <span><strong>Simpósio de Tecnologia e Ciências Exatas - SIMTECCE</strong> edição 2016. Este evento leva aos alunos uma série de palestras de grandes empresas do mercado e também de ex-alunos que hoje tem uma história bacana e uma carreira já consolidada. Tudo com o objetivo de levar ainda mais conhecimento e motiva-los no seguimento de suas carreiras. Uma iniciativa muito legal e uma honra muito grande fazer parte disto representando a Microsoft.</span>

Através do contato com o professor Sergio Bonato, que também trabalha em um de nossos clientes - o qual reforço o agradecimento pelo convite - pude contribuir compartilhando um pouco sobre Microsoft Azure para os alunos da universidade em dois dias. A sessão tinha como objetivo embasar os conhecimentos sobre nuvem e, claro, levar um exemplo prático para que todos vejam com seus próprios olhos o poder e simplicidade de uso da plataforma da Microsoft para este segmento de mercado.

<a target="_blank" href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/11/Ricardo-Serradas-24.10.2016-11.jpg"><img src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/11/Ricardo-Serradas-24.10.2016-11-300x200.jpg" alt="ricardo-serradas-24-10-2016-11" width="300" height="200" class="alignleft wp-image-225 size-medium" /></a>No primeiro dia, na segunda-feira - 24, fui honrado com a sessão de abertura do evento na unidade Moóca. Foi uma sessão muito legal, com sala cheia e muita interação no final. Os alunos ficaram meio assustados quando, no final da palestra, eu excluí todos os recursos configurados na nuvem para execução do exemplo prático. Fiquem tranquilos, estamos na nuvem :-)

No segundo, quinta-feira dia 27, pude também abrir o dia de palestras na unidade Butantã falando do mesmo tema. A interação e as perguntas do pessoal que acompanhou foram interessantíssimas e super pertinentes. Foi bem legal poder trocar informações com o pessoal mega interessado que fizeram as perguntas.

Aqui, você pode ver os slides que usei na palestra:

<iframe width="595" height="485" src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/ohtdt6WlYFTa7C" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> </iframe>

<a href="https://customers.microsoft.com/en-US/story/real-madrid-brings-the-stadium-closer-to-450-million-f">Neste link</a> você pode conferir o <em>case</em> do Real Madrid usando Azure para levar conteúdo mais relevante para seus torcedores ao redor do mundo.

Reitero meu agradecimento por poder contribuir com o evento e espero estar presente nas próximas edições.

Um abraço!

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      <title>Visual Studio Summit Brazil 2016 - How was it</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/visual-studio-summit-brazil-2016-how-was-it</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:26:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Serradas]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hey guys,

Yesterday I and Leandro Prado had two sessions at Visual Studio Summit Brazil 2016,...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey guys,

<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/Main-Photo.jpg"><img class="  alignright wp-image-195" src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/Main-Photo-300x199.jpg" alt="Visual Studio Summit" width="301" height="200" /></a>Yesterday I and <a href="https://www.leandroprado.com.br/" target="_blank">Leandro Prado</a> had two sessions at Visual Studio Summit Brazil 2016, brought by <a href="https://www.2pc.com.br/" target="_blank">2PC</a> and Microsoft. Lots of great people were there to share knowledge in their sessions in this traditional event here in Sao Paulo. Leandro's session was named  <strong>DevOps: Release Management vNext</strong>. Unhappily, I could not watch his sessions due to time conflict. I'm going to try to be fast and comment about the event and the content I shared in my session, named <strong>DevOps: how Microsoft uses VSTS</strong>.

&nbsp;
<h2>The event</h2>
<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/Foto-01.png"><img class=" wp-image-176 size-medium alignleft" src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/Foto-01-300x169.png" alt="Foto 01" width="300" height="169" /></a>The event structure didn't follow the classic <em>track</em> model. Differently, the format valued the double execution of each session during the event: one in a little meeting room and other in one of the auditoriums. This format allowed the public to have a second chance to watch a session they might have lost due to time conflict.

Among all the speakers, we had names like Andre <strong>Baltieri, Angelo</strong> Belchior, Alexandre <strong>Chohfi,</strong> Eduardo <strong>Pires, Evilazaro</strong> Alves, <strong>Giovanni</strong> Bassi, <strong>Julio</strong> Arruda, Lucas <strong>Romão,</strong> Leandro "<strong>Piá</strong>" Prado, Osvaldo <strong>Daibert</strong>, <strong>Ramon</strong> Durães and <strong>V</strong>ictor <strong>C</strong>avalcante. Vinicius <strong>Moura</strong> was called in the same day of the event to cover a session from a speaker who had an unexpected problem and could not be there with us. Vinicius deserves congratulations for his courage and for being able to prepare such a great content with that few hours.

Besides the guaranteed quality of the contents, the best aspect of the event in my opinion was the punctuality of each session. It contributed to keep the event running in a good pace.
<h2>My session</h2>
<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/2a34828c-7bfb-4ee8-a39a-2b3a10cdf872.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-185 alignright" src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/2a34828c-7bfb-4ee8-a39a-2b3a10cdf872-300x169.jpg" alt="2a34828c-7bfb-4ee8-a39a-2b3a10cdf872" width="300" height="169" /></a>First of all, I must give the credits of some content I used as a base for my presentation to Michael Koester and Brian Keller. Thank you guys for creating such a valuable content.

Well, as everyone, I had two sessions to share the same content, at 3PM and 4:20PM. I tried to break that story that says: "<em>Cobblers’ children never wear shoes.</em>". I tried it by sharing that the VSTS Product Team in fact uses its own product.

I shared some values that the team has. We analyzed a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRy_73ivcms" target="_blank">video</a> that compares the racing teams from 1950 and 2003, when Ferrari broke the world record for the fastest pit stop in history. I tried to let everyone understand that modernization is inevitable and Microsoft needed to modernize itself continuously to keep being one of the biggest players in the market.

After we watched that video, we focused in Tools, Process and People, all focusing on Microsoft and the product team.
<h3>People</h3>
About this aspect, we understood the Developer Division's dimension inside Microsoft, how many of them are from the Team Services Team and in how many Feature Team they are divided. We also analyzed the growing number of internal users that VSTS has.
<h3>Processes</h3>
Here we could understand which are the team's timeboxes, like the Sprints and what is the frequence that the team revises its Roadmap. We saw that the backlog is fed by the team itself and also by all the users through UserVoice, the official tool to collect feedback and new ideas. Lastly we checked that the team uses Work Items (customized!) to manage its backlog.
<h3>Code</h3>
As one of the Tool's items, we saw that the team uses Git to version their code, replacing TFVC permanently, which seems to be in maintenance mode. Just my thoughts... Besides that, I showed that the branches mechanism is simpler than everyone imagined, using only a main branch and creating a branch for each feature being developed. The Pull Requests are used to increase quality by promoting Code Review.
<h3>Deployment</h3>
This was the most expected aspect and was also the one that brought more content. Here we could understand some things:
<ul>
	<li><strong>Canary Deployment</strong>: this concept is used to release a new version in production and, in case of an incident, a minimal group of user accounts, including the own team's, is impacted. Here we can conclude that YES, the team uses its own product. Dog-fooding!
<ul>
	<li>The Canary term is based on the history of the coal miners who took a canary every time they go to the mine and, if the canary dies, it was time to leave the mine because the air was too toxic to stay there.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>Scale Units</strong>: to make Canary Deployment possible, VSTS has some Scale Units (SUs) as production environments. Each one of them is a set of Team Services accounts that, the smaller, the more early adopters they are. Scale Unit 0 is what they call Canary Instance.
<ul>
	<li>It's possible to request to be an early adopter throught a support request to the product team. You may go from SU3 to Su2 or SU1. It never hurts to try, huh? :-) Be aware that only some internal teams, employees and initiatives are elegible to SU0.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>Release Management</strong>: And here we have another YES! The new releases of VSTS are triggered automatically on each SU through Release Management. It was so cool to talk about that. We were done with this aspect by discovering that LightRail, a PowerShell-based tool, is used in one of the few tasks to run this deployment in each environment.</li>
	<li><strong>How to be up to date with the service status</strong>: at last, we saw that there's a lot of transparency about service health. It's possible to follow the detailed news and the service status through the following channels:
<ul>
	<li><a href="https://twitter.com/vsteam" target="_blank"><strong>Twitter</strong> @VSTeam</a>: news and incident announcements;</li>
	<li><a href="https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/support/support-overview-vs.aspx" target="_blank"><strong>Product Status</strong> Website</a>: here you can easily know if there's any problem with the product operation. And remember: green means that everything is ok; yellow means that there's a problem which the team already know the root cause and they're already working on it/the product is partially unavailable; and red means that there's a problem with an unknown root cause and the team is still investigating/the product is unavailable.</li>
	<li><strong><a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/" target="_blank">Service Blog</a></strong>: here it is possible to know details of deployments, ivestigation and correction of problems.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
You can check the slides I used in my sessions below:

<iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/w0bJhsV5Dl2rSZ" width="595" height="485" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> </iframe>
<div style="margin-bottom: 5px"><strong> <a title="DevOps: Como a Microsoft usa o VSTS - Visual Studio Summit 2016" href="//www.slideshare.net/rserradas/devops-como-a-microsoft-usa-o-vsts-visual-studio-summit-2016" target="_blank">DevOps: Como a Microsoft usa o VSTS - Visual Studio Summit 2016</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="//www.slideshare.net/rserradas" target="_blank">Ricardo Serradas</a></strong></div>
I honestly hope that sharing these informations with the devs that were in each session had given some extra energy to them so they can encourage even more their companies to the "road to the cloud" and to Visual Studio Team Services, making the constant modernization possible and bringing even more productivity to their day-by-day.

Want to keep in touch? Just choose one of the channels on the right side :-)

Thanks,]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>DevOps Summit Brazil 2016 - It was awesome!</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/devops-summit-brazil-2016-it-was-awesome</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 10:46:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Serradas]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hello everyone!

Last friday and saturday Lambda3, BR Soluções Integradas and Microsoft promoted...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello everyone!

Last friday and saturday <strong><a title="Lambda3" href="https://www.lambda3.com.br/" target="_blank">Lambda3</a>,</strong> <a title="BR Soluções Integradas" href="https://www.facebook.com/BrSolucoesIntegradas" target="_blank"><strong>BR Soluções Integradas</strong></a> and <strong>Microsoft</strong> promoted the 2016 (and 1st) edition of <a title="DevOps Summit Brazil 2016" href="https://www.devopssummitbrasil.com/#/" target="_blank">DevOps Summit Brazil</a>. "<em>First"</em> because this event is a joint of two renomated events: <em>ALM Summit</em> and <em>Azure Summit</em>.

Basically, their founders are following the market tendency of DevOps and nothing would make more sense than merging these two events.

The registrations were closed almost a week before because there were no more tickets available. It was awesome! Lots of people exchanging their experiences using Microsoft technologies to make DevOps real.

On Friday, the the content was dedicated to the business aspects of DevOps and Cloud for companies.

The technical day of the event, Saturday, had about 38 speakers in 4 different tracks: <em>Cloud Technologies</em>, <em>Modern Development</em>, <em>Continuous Improvement</em> and <em>Practices and Processes</em>.

To the organizers, congratulations, you've made an amazing event! The place you choose to run it and the quality of the tracks were awesome. Way to go!

I was honored to contribute with two slots in the <em>Continuous Improvement</em> track. On the 1st, I tried to help people to think a little bit more about how testing is essential to let us trust more in our DevOps processes. I also tried to: stop the fight between Devs and Ops and have a measurable comparison between manual and automated testing. Automation is essential for DevOps! :-)

To illustrate this approach, I used the spreadsheet that you can download <a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricardoserradas/?attachment_id=145">here</a>.

[caption id="attachment_155" align="aligncenter" width="300"]<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/05/20160507_114813.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="wp-image-155 size-medium" src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/05/20160507_114813-300x169.jpg" alt="&quot;Let the automation make your DevOps process more trustable&quot; talk" width="300" height="169" /></a> <em>"Let the automation make your DevOps process more trustable" talk</em>[/caption]

For the second I, <a title="Adriano Bertucci" href="https://adrianobertucci.com/" target="_blank">Adriano Bertucci</a>, <a title="Renato Groff MTAC" href="https://www.facebook.com/RenatoGroffeSW/" target="_blank">Renato Groff</a> and <a title="Thiago Meuser" href="https://www.thiagomeuser.com/" target="_blank">Thiago Meuser</a> had 2 hours to preparate an end-to-end demonstration of how testing is automated using BDD, Selenium, Visual Studio Team Services and Azure. We stored the code on VSTS Git; Built it; deployed its binaries on an Azure VM, which had Test Case automations on it, and Ran Functional Tests using VSTS Build. If you want to know more about running functional tests using VSTS, follow <a title="Queue a Run by specifying your test suite" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGDFKod9mZE" target="_blank">this link</a> to watch a video.

By the way, we've got all the Build Noturno's staff present on the event. Build Noturno is a live <a title="Build Noturno playlist" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjxuPLI9kgnZSgrlO8i1ab94aRxUeaZ03&amp;jct=e_WHBxkgyNkwL5ZLag_8RFYbTjMkDg" target="_blank">monthly videocast</a> where we talk about ALM, DevOps and Development process, in general. Here we are:

[caption id="attachment_135" align="aligncenter" width="300"]<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/05/build-noturno-staff.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="wp-image-135 size-medium" src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/05/build-noturno-staff-300x267.jpg" alt="Build Noturno's staff" width="300" height="267" /></a> <em>Build Noturno's staff</em>[/caption]

If you want to see some more pics of the event, I'm going to publish them on <a title="DevOps Summit Brazil 2016 Photo Album" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1507353889&amp;sk=photos&amp;collection_token=1507353889%3A2305272732%3A69&amp;set=a.10209624310953730.1073741832.1507353889&amp;type=3" target="_blank">this album</a>.

Once again: congratulations to the organizers and thank you for one more opportunity to share knowledge with out technical community!]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>VSTS Sprints: Dashboards, improved pull requests, test results and more; The new Channel Name!</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/vsts-sprints-dashboards-improved-pull-requests-test-results-and-more-the-new-channel-name</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:30:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Serradas]]></dc:creator>
      <guid
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      <description><![CDATA[Hi all,

We're back with the retrospective of earlier editions of the former VSO Sprints, which is...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi all,

We're back with the retrospective of earlier editions of the former VSO Sprints, which is now named VSTS Sprints.
<h2>Why did we change the name?</h2>
Well, as you all know, the product recently had its name changed <del>from VSO (Visual Studio Online)</del> to <strong>VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services)</strong>. At first, we thought that keeping the name would be better as the channel had already created an identity with the older name. But we've got feedbacks from some very important people (thanks to Buck Hodges for the awesome feedback) and we finally decided to update the name, mainly to follow the product's tendencies.

So now, you may hear about the channel as VSTS Sprints. Tell us what are your thoughts about the new name :-)
<h2>The Sprint 90</h2>
This sprint had some great news. Dashboards was one of the features with more impact because it really changed the characteristic of the product. With Dashboards, you may have a great tool to have Visual Management and, by consequence, tools to have faster decisions.

Let's slice the video as, at that time, we were with the old concept of having a single video with all the features. From the Sprint 93, we started publishing separated videos for each feature and we're grouping them into playlists. This makes it easier to search and find the exact video for what you want and, of course, makes it more pleasant to watch.
<h3>Dashboards</h3>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/hPruuH5Xpdk?start=36&amp;end=495" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<h3>Improved pull request experience</h3>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/hPruuH5Xpdk?start=496&amp;end=585" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<h3>Manual test iteration results</h3>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/hPruuH5Xpdk?start=586&amp;end=777" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<h3>Retention policy for test results</h3>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/hPruuH5Xpdk?start=778&amp;end=870" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<h3>Reorder and re-parent tasks from the Kanban board</h3>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/hPruuH5Xpdk?start=871&amp;end=937" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<h3>Extensibility on the work item form</h3>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/hPruuH5Xpdk?start=938&amp;end=977" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<h3>PREVIEW: Updates to the new work item form</h3>
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/hPruuH5Xpdk?start=978&amp;end=1050" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

That's all for Sprint 90! If you want to be always up to date with what's new on Visual Studio Team Services, follow us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Visual-Studio-Team-Services-1552594205069308/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a title="VSTS Sprints on YouTube" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QhmUDhKhUKKTC6aJr7n2g" target="_blank">YouTube</a>!

See you on next sprint!]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>VSO Sprints: Introducing Git improvements, Azure AD Groups support and new Work Item form</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/vso-sprints-introducing-git-improvements-azure-ad-groups-support-and-new-work-item-form</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:22:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Serradas]]></dc:creator>
      <guid
        isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricardoserradas/?p=91</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello dear!

Continuing with my retrospective about VSO Sprints videos, in this one we've got...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello dear!

Continuing with my retrospective about VSO Sprints videos, in this one we've got great news from <a href="https://www.visualstudio.com/news/2015-oct-8-vso" target="_blank">Sprint 89</a> of VSTS (former Visual Studio Online). The most amazing one, in my opinion, was the new Work Item form.

Let's take a look at each new feature the team delivered:
<ul>
	<li>Azure Active Directory Group Support
<ul>
	<li>You can now use the groups you defined in your Azure AD to work with permissions in VSTS.</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/cw_0SS6yPXY?start=96&amp;end=317" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Starting with git, made easy
<ul>
	<li>The team made some improvements to the first user experience with Git on VSTS.</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/cw_0SS6yPXY?start=444&amp;end=500" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Improved commit details
<ul>
	<li>The summary got better so you can now see the commit message in a better way. There's also a better way to view the diff with the parent commit</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/cw_0SS6yPXY?start=500&amp;end=618" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>SonarQube analysis from a Maven build task
<ul>
	<li>After this deployment, we got a new simple checkbox on the Maven Build Task to run a SonarQube analysis</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/cw_0SS6yPXY?start=318&amp;end=443" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>PREVIEW: New work item form
<ul>
	<li>A brand new Work Item experience! New layout; prepared for customization; discussion and more.</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/cw_0SS6yPXY?start=618&amp;end=780" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
You can see above only the features you are most interested. But, if you want to watch the entire VSO Sprint video, just use the embed below (and we'll be pleased!):

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cw_0SS6yPXY?list=PLmZ8QM33QNnSiDkJdoh7-cgTLQFhrt9Ey" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

See you!]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>VSO Sprints: Introducing Improvements in Kanban, tests and pull request in VSTS</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/vso-sprints-introducing-improvements-in-kanban-tests-and-pull-request-in-vsts</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 06:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Serradas]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hello guys,

I'm going to start a series of posts to introduce you the VSO Sprints, a...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello guys,

I'm going to start a series of posts to introduce you the <a title="#vsosprints on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vsosprints" target="_blank">VSO Sprints</a>, a YouTube/Channel 9 channel that I and the ALM MVP <a title="Vinicius Moura's Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/vinijmoura" target="_blank">Vinicius Moura</a> created to help you understand each new and already existing feature of <strong>Visual Studio Team Services</strong>.

I'll start with retroactive posts and then we'll follow the channel's launch of new videos and, automatically, the <a href="https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/release-archive-vso.aspx" target="_blank">VSTS Features Timeline</a>.

This post introduces you the news from the Sprint 88 of the VSTS Team. The idea is to bring you an embed video of each feature to make it easy to reach only what's most important to you. In this release, we got these new features:
<ul>
	<li>Inline tasks on the Kanban board
<ul>
	<li>Now you can plan the tasks of a Backlog Item directly in the Kanban board. Easy and dynamic, keep the Kanban view while planning your Sprint.</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/OoGU2QbBxl4?start=235&amp;end=370" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Query and display of Kanban fields
<ul>
	<li>Remember that new columns you could add to the Kanban View? Right, now you can query over them.</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/OoGU2QbBxl4?start=235&amp;end=370" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Multi-select items on the backlog
<ul>
	<li>If you want to perform actions in multiple items of your backlog, just select all of them and do it!</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/OoGU2QbBxl4?start=370&amp;end=426" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Branch policy to require linked work items
<ul>
	<li>Yep. Now you can configure this policy for branches in Pull Request of a Git repository.</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/OoGU2QbBxl4?start=426&amp;end=510" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Export test outcomes
<ul>
	<li>There were already some stuff you could export from tests in VSTS. You can now export the Test Outcomes either, which allows you to have more information about the test execution. Take a look.</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/OoGU2QbBxl4?start=510&amp;end=588" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Work item trend and rollup reporting in Power BI
<ul>
	<li>Great! The integration between VSTS and the Power BI is now live for Work Item reports.</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/OoGU2QbBxl4?start=588&amp;end=639" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Support for publishing xUnit results
<ul>
	<li>One more testing framework you can use in your builds and export the test results using the <strong>Publish Test Results</strong> task: xUnit!</li>
	<li><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/v/OoGU2QbBxl4?start=639" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
If you want to watch the entire video, here is the thing:

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OoGU2QbBxl4" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

Enjoy it! :-)]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>O Premier Field Engineer: conheça o que já pude viver na nova jornada</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ricardoserradas/o-premier-field-engineer-conheca-o-que-ja-pude-viver-na-nova-jornada</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:29:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Serradas]]></dc:creator>
      <guid
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      <description><![CDATA[Olá você que está lendo esta primeira publicação neste blog! :-)

Ele é a realização de um sonho...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Olá você que está lendo esta primeira publicação neste blog! :-)

Ele é a realização de um sonho antigo. Sim, parece simples e sem o menor sentido, não é? É que eu sempre achei muito legal, elegante e de muita responsabilidade ter um espaço nos blogs do MSDN. E cá estou eu.

E isto aconteceu por um motivo especial: como já devem ter visto nas minhas redes sociais, desde o último dia 1º de Dezembro eu ingressei na Microsoft, esta empresa que acompanho e admiro deste o início da minha carreira. Já posso dizer que é a maior realização profissional da minha vida, sem dúvidas. Neste menos de 1 mês, a pouca experiência vivida já mostrou que será uma jornada fantástica. E vou trabalhar duro para que assim seja!

Muito bem, mas vou investir esforços para que esta mudança não impacte a minha contribuição com a comunidade técnica, que é minha grande paixão nos trabalhos relacionados à minha especialidade. Com isso, devo redirecionar minhas publicações de conteúdos para cá. O <a href="https://blog.ricardoserradas.net" target="_blank">blog pessoal</a> continuará lá, com todos os conteúdos publicados até então. Até adicionei uma referência para ele aqui do lado direito :-)

Nesta primeira publicação, vou compartilhar com vocês o que aprendi até então sobre o que é ser um Premier Field Engineer e o processo de Ramp Up.
<h2>O Premier Field Engineer</h2>
<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/12/swat_team-wallpaper-1920x1080.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-23 size-full" src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/12/swat_team-wallpaper-1920x1080.jpg" alt="Premier Field Engineer" width="280" height="280" /></a>Na Microsoft, vou atuar como <em>Premier Field Engineer </em>especializado em ALM e DevOps. Ainda tenho muito o que aprender sobre o papel e suas responsabilidades, mas este Engenheiro tem como principal foco apoiar os clientes <a href="https://premier.microsoft.com/" target="_blank"><em>Premier</em></a> para que estes usem os produtos da Microsoft extraindo o maior retorno sobre o investimento possível. É ele quem apoia o cliente em situações críticas e que o orienta para extrair os benefícios de cada detalhe do produto no qual ele é especializado e é o último recurso antes da ocorrência ser escalada internamente na Microsoft.

O Engenheiro tem duas principais atuações:
<ul>
	<li><strong>Proativas: </strong><em>assessments,</em> ações preventivas, <em>health checks</em>, <em>chalk &amp; talks,</em> workshops, Programas de Gerenciamento de Risco, Revisões de Suportabilidade, entre outros;</li>
	<li><strong>Reativas: </strong><em>troubleshooting,</em> <em>disaster recovers</em>, suporte à situações críticas, entre muitas outras possibilidades também. Isto sem contar a gestão do cliente durante uma eventual situação difícil.</li>
</ul>
Recentemente, existem dois tipos de alocação dos Engenheiros para clientes: as <strong>Transacionais,</strong> onde o Engenheiro trabalha em diferentes engajamentos/clientes a cada semana e os chamados <strong>DSE,</strong> ou <em>Dedicated Support Engineer </em>(Engenheiro de Suporte Dedicado), os quais são literalmente dedicados para entre 1 a 4 clientes por, em média, 6 meses.

É muito importante lembrar que, para todas estas atuações possíveis no dia a dia do Engenheiro, existe sempre o apoio de toda a Microsoft com ele. Ao mesmo tempo, sendo um Engenheiro da Microsoft, a atuação deve concentrar-se em produtos suportados pelo time. Isto precisa ser reiterado porque atualmente temos muitas situações de uso de sistemas integrados e/ou do próprio uso específico de um produto que o tiram do escopo do Suporte Premier. Até o momento, na minha visão este foi o cuidado mais importante que temos que ter numa atuação.
<h2>O Time</h2>
<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/12/photo311.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-43" src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/12/photo311.jpg" alt="Time PFE" width="280" height="192" /></a>O time de PFEs do Brasil hoje conta com cerca de 130 Engenheiros, contando todas as especialidades. Todos estes times estão numa área da Microsoft chamada de CSS (<em>Customer Services &amp; Support</em>). Dentro desta área, os times são subdivididos por especialidade/tecnologia. Por exemplo: nosso time é focado em ALM, DevOps e Desenvolvimento. Existem outros times "pares" como SQL, Sharepoint, entre outros.

Existem casos de clientes que possuem um time de Engenheiros Premier alocados, o que fazer ter um pouco a cara de um sub-time em seu escritório com especialistas em diferentes tecnologias e produtos. Isto é muito comum em clientes que possuem contratos de DSE. Nestes casos, também parece comum a presença frequente de um <em>Technical Account Manager</em> (Gerente Técnico de Contas) da Microsoft, que gerencia esta conta Premier.
<h2>O Ramp Up</h2>
<a href="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/12/pn-20100401154702-2jpg-96bd2daf222cebb9.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-33 size-full" src="https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/12/pn-20100401154702-2jpg-96bd2daf222cebb9-e1451231279701.jpg" alt="Ramp Up" width="279" height="187" /></a>A <em>role</em> de PFE exige bastante do profissional, tanto técnica quanto pessoalmente, pois o conhecimento exigido é extremo e o relacionamento interpessoal, postura e visão estratégica são fundamentais nas atuações também. É sempre importante lembrar que, no cliente, <strong>você é a Microsoft</strong>. Se algo não funcionar como esperado tecnicamente, a Microsoft não atuou como esperado. Se algo inconveniente for dito em uma reunião, foi a Microsoft que se posicionou de forma incorreta.

Por conta de toda esta criticidade, é muito legal frisar que a Microsoft toma todos os cuidados no <em>Ramp Up</em> do profissional que está ingressando como PFE. Isto é muito interessante e deve ser muito valorizado. Treinamentos internos, atuações como <em>Shadow</em> (em par com um Engenheiro já experiente na função), entre outros processos, são realizados para que todas as partes (profissional, Microsoft e cliente) sintam-se seguras nesta transição e o profissional esteja preparado para executar um trabalho de altíssima qualidade e alinhado com os padrões da Corporação. Uma conclusão já foi possível tirar: a Microsoft te dá toda a estrutura e suporte para que você execute um excelente trabalho. Daí pra frente, é com você.

Deve ter ficado clara a associação/analogia com os times de elite da SWAT aqui, não é? Mas foi intencional, pois o time de PFEs deve ser sempre um time de elite. Toda esta estrutura, preparação e manutenção tem o foco principal de manter a excelência deste time que tem uma atuação tão importante nos que podem ser os maiores clientes da Microsoft no nosso país.

Se você é o tipo de pessoa que diz que gosta de desafios, este pode ser um bom lugar pra você. Representar uma das gigantes de software e tecnologia do mundo nos seus clientes é um desafio e tanto. E acaba sendo divertidíssimo também, se tecnologia é realmente a sua paixão.

Por enquanto, é isto que tenho pra compartilhar com vocês. Ao longo do tempo, vou estendendo este assunto por aqui, às vezes até corrigindo a mim mesmo. Além disso, não quero deixar o texto muito longo. Ficou com dúvidas ou quer saber mais? Entre em contato e vamos conversar. É sempre muito legal :-)

Até a próxima!]]></content:encoded>
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