Monday, August 10th, 2009
This is a bit like the Scrum Bestiary minus the continual references to farmyard animals. Instead I’ll be using diagrams as a visual aid. Not as amusing but trust me I tried. This is a work in progress and incomplete. I’m working on it as part of ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
A lot of the time the first question a lot of people ask about agile and distributed agile in particular is: “Which tool or product should I buy for me and my team?” This isn’t a bad question provided everyone involved understands that tools ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Tools
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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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