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.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Why was I talking about interviewing again? Because I'm now managing the patterns & practices development team and we're hiring. If you read my blog you'll have a fair idea of what we do here at p&p.
Now you can come and be part of one of the patterns & practices ...
Tags: Microsoft, p&p, Seattle
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
A long while ago I wrote a post about interviewing at Microsoft. Not much has really changed since then, although we don't ask those puzzle questions any more. So no need to brush up on your taxonomy of manhole covers but do expect to show that you can think logically. ...
Tags: Microsoft, News & events
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Oddly enough I didn't make the eWeek's list of the 25 most influential people at Microsoft or their influencers on the rise list. Its interesting reading and makes me give serious consideration to the picture on my homepage. Maybe I should wear a suit and tie? Maybe I should change ...
Tags: Microsoft, Trivia
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
As Don Smith, our Product Manager on Service Factory, said in a post on the CodePlex site yesterday Service Factory: Modeling Edition ships... almost. We're sooo ready to get this thing out the door, hopefully in time for the Software Factories day at the p&p Summit next week.
Tags: Microsoft, Service Factory
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
It's finally here! The p&p Summit starts next week in Redmond with lots of interesting sessions. We'll be talking about the patterns survey and IEEE paper we published earlier this year. Bob, Wojtek and I will also be presenting the Service Factory: Modeling Edition which should ship any day soon. Lots of ...
Tags: Agile, Microsoft, News & events, Seattle
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I've been lucky enough to do a lot of travelling over the past twenty years; roaming across six continents and climbing mountains on five. Mountaineering often took me to remote areas. The sort of places where the things I usually take for granted just don't exist; a warm bed, clean water, enough food ...
Tags: Microsoft, Travel
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Saturday, July 8th, 2006
So one of the things I get to do a lot of as a Development Lead is interviewing - we're hiring. Screening possible candidates over the phone, organizing loops and ultimately interviewing candidates when they visit campus. I actually really like this part of the job, you get to spend time ...
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