Monday, October 13th, 2008
It all started three years ago today with "Extreme Blogging". Since then there's been well over two hundred posts about everything from coding gotchas to why Boomer should be called Sharon. When I started I was a pretty newish developer on the Visual Studio Tools for Office team. In the ...
Tags: News & events
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Last week we did a video of the patterns & practices team spaces at Microsoft. This short video focuses on the team rooms and how we use some of their unique features as we develop our deliverables and work with distributed teams.
The video is now posted on Channel 9.
Tags: Agile, Distributed teams, News & events
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
This year at PDC 2008 we'll be running an Agile Pre-Conference.
I'm not going to be there but p&p's Grigori Melnik will be. He'll be presenting this session with Mary Poppendieck. You can hear Grigori and Mary talking about who they are an how they got into Agile in this new Channel9 video. ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
It was a little odd speaking to two hundred people in India via Live Meeting while actually sitting in a completely empty office in Redmond at 1am. The biggest thing you miss is any feedback from the audience. Are they bored or sleeping? Are they shaking their heads in disagreement? ...
Tags: Distributed teams, India, News & events
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Somewhat to my surprise it turns out that I'm speaking at the Microsoft Virtual TechDays, India. Also surprising is that "today" turns out to be a bit of a vague term. That's 11:30pm Pacific time or 12:00 noon in India. Yes that's right a midnight speaking engagement, not a great ...
Tags: Agile, Distributed teams, India, News & events, p&p
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
I’ve added a page of slide decks for talks I’ve given over the past couple of years. I've just added a new deck.
Patterns and Practices @ patterns & practices
This is the talk I gave at the p&p Summit in Quebec earlier in 2008 on some of the thinking we did ...
Tags: Agile, News & events, p&p, Quebec
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I'll be speaking at this year's patterns & practices Summit in Redmond, 3-7 Nov. The provisional lineup is now available.
I'm also writing a white paper on the same topic. If there are things you'd like to see covered in the talk or paper then I'm looking for feedback. Post a ...
Tags: Agile, Distributed teams, News & events, Seattle
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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 experiences at Microsoft with large and distributed teams. Scaling Agile ...
Tags: Florida, Microsoft, News & events, p&p
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
I've added a page of slide decks for talks I've given over the past couple of years. I'll be adding more when I get more time.
Tags: Best practices, News & events
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
One of the things that really impressed me at the conference was Industrial Logic's Agile eLearning product/project. I went to two good talks by Joshua Kerievsky (refactoring) and Brian Foote (patterns) both of which demo'ed their eLearning stuff. It's arranged in albums and makes lots of use of videos. ...
Tags: Agile, Coding, News & events, Patterns, TDD, Toronto
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