Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Now we've got Agile 2008 out of the way it's time to think about the next thing. For me it's Agile Development Practices 2008 in Florida, November 10-14. I'll be speaking on Thursday afternoon on some of my expereinces at Microsoft with large and distributed teams.
Scaling Agile Up and Out: ...
Tags: Microsoft, News & events, Orlando, p&p
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
My talk on the patterns & practices Service Factory:ME team's experiences with Continuous Integration (CI) and our data analysis of the CI and Team Foundation Server logs is this morning at Agile 2008. You can find the presentation for this talk here:
One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration - slide deck
One ...
Tags: Agile, Best practices, Continuous integration, Microsoft, News & events, p & p, Static analysis, Toronto
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
The testing guidance team have just shipped a new CTP in time for Agile 2008. You can grab the PDF from their CodePlex site:
http://www.codeplex.com/TestingGuidance
We're looking for feedback (as always) so don't be shy!
Tags: acceptance testing, Microsoft, News & events, p & p
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Dates for p&p Summit 2008 have been announced: November 3rd to 7th 2008. Lots of exciting speakers like Kent Beck will be there for you and some not so exciting ones... like me.
Apparently I'm speaking. How do I know? Well my name appears on the presenters page along with a ...
Tags: Microsoft, News & events, p & p, Seattle
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I'm actually starting work on a couple of white papers around how p&p runs its software development teams and some of the best practices we've harvested from looking at other Microsoft teams. Currently I'm thinking of two main topics; large scale projects and distributed teams. Some of this will appear ...
Tags: Agile, Best practices, Microsoft, p & p, Scrum
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
The p&p Composite Applications team has just released Composite Application Guidance for WPF. In a nutshell...
The Composite Application Guidance for WPF is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client applications. This guidance will help you design and build flexible composite WPF client applications—composite applications ...
Tags: Microsoft, News & events, p & p
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Erwin just started with the patterns & practices Dev Team. He already has a blog and will be joining the Composite Application Library (CAL) team as they start work on their next project. His blog already includes a post on module loading for CAL.
We've had quite a few new people join ...
Tags: Microsoft, News & events, p & p, Seattle
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy pointed me at a great paper from Microsoft Research:
Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study
There are lots of interesting pieces of data in this paper. Two things that really stood out were firstly that about a third of the survey's respondents ...
Tags: Agile, Microsoft
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Scott Hanselman has a great post about last weekend's ALT.NET conference and the ALT.NET community overall. I'm not "in" with the ALT.NET crowd and wasn't able to attend the conference but some of them did drop by p&p last week. They're nice people and we had an interesting conversation about ...
Tags: Agile, ALT.NET, Microsoft
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
I found the blue monster cartoon the other day. I just stuck a copy on my office door. Q: What would your blog card say? Additional credit will be given to candidates with creative answers.
Tags: Microsoft
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