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 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, Distributed teams, 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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