Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Dates and an session schedule for this year’s patterns & practices Summit have been announced. The next patterns & practices Summit takes place October 12-16 in the Kodiak Room at the Microsoft Conference Center at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers including Martin ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, NBody.net, p&p, p&p Summit 2009, Parallel Computing, Seattle
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
In a somewhat unusual turn of events I’ve actually found the time to write my decks for Agile 2009 early this year. This never happens! I invariably arrive at the venue with a 90% complete deck and fill in the blanks as I talk to attendees. However, this ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Distributed teams, Events, Scrum
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
I spent an hour or so a week or so back talking to David Starr, of Elegant Code fame, about distributed agile development and some of the things we’ve discovered while running distributed team at p&p. If you’re running or working on a distributed team then you might find ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
A while back I wrote a paper on Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices. I’ll be giving a talk on this at Agile 2009 in Chicago. One of the things I’d like to do as part of getting this talk together is gather some more ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Distributed teams
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Elegant Code’s code cast this week is on distributed agile development: Code Cast 22 – Distributed Agile Tamara Sulaiman is the Stage Producer for Distributed Agile at the 2009 conference in Chicago. She joined David Starr to talk about effective practices in distributed ...
Tags: Distributed teams
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
The deadline for submissions to Agile 2009 rapidly approaches! It’s Feb 13th. We’re busy reviewing submissions for the Agile & Organizational Culture stage and I’m sure the other stages are busy too. If you’re not planning on giving a talk you can still attend the ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Distributed teams, Events, Scrum
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
We've posted a couple of new videos on Channel 9 this week. One from last year's p&p Summit and a new one I shot last month showing how Visual Studio Team Architect build a team room without spending a lot of money.
pnp summit 2008 video - Distributed Agile Development
In this ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, p&p
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
The session deadline for this year is Feb 13th. This year it’s in Chicago on August 24-28.
The conference organizers are looking for more submissions (I'm a reviewer for the Culture Stage). If you would like to present the web site has a page on how to propose a session.
I have ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Distributed teams, Events, Scrum
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Thanks everyone who attended my talk today at Agile Development Practices 2008. The PDF of the slide deck is available for download and includes some additional speaker notes. This talk was based on two papers; Agility and the Inconceivably Large and Distributed Agile Development at patterns & practices which ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Florida, Large teams
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
One of the questions I got at the p&p Summit after my distributed agile development talk was, how do you use Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS) with distributed teams? This is an issue because VSS was never written with distribution in mind. The VSS client connects directly to the ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, Proven practices, Seattle, Tools, Visual Studio
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