Thursday, August 7th, 2008
My talk on the p&p Service Factory:ME team's experiences with CI and our data analysis of the CI and TFS logs is this morning. You can find the presentation for this talk here:
One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration - slide deck
The deck actually includes some speaker notes so it's not ...
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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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Ever been faced with one of those tricky design or architectural questions? Maybe the team is divided or a key decision maker is a seagull. But you need to move forward quickly.
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you the Architectural Magic Eight Ball, beloved by senior developers and architects everywhere. Solve ...
Tags: Best practices, p & p, Patterns
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Tomorrow night (Thursday 12th June) I'll be talking to the Seattle XP Users group about "A Hundred Days of Continuous Integration". This is a dry run for giving the talk at Agile 2008 in August. At the very least I'm hoping for audience feedback, and not of the rotten fruit ...
Tags: Agile, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, News & events, p & p, Seattle
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Here's the final abstract... Many agile teams use Continuous Integration (CI). It is one of the Extreme Programming practices and has been broadly adopted by the community [1]. Just how effective is it? Does the effort of maintaining the CI server and fixing build breaks save time compared to ...
Tags: Agile, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, News & events, p & p
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
The whole choosing an agile process thread ran pretty long. Here's a summary of all the posts:
Designing your own agile process - Part 1: Don't!
Designing your own agile process - Part 2: Buy vs. build
Choosing an agile process - Part 3: Evaluation
Choosing an agile process - Part 4: Offshore development
Choosing ...
Tags: Agile, Best practices, Distributed teams, p & p
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