Monday, December 8th, 2008
When Nachiappan Nagappan from Microsoft Research (MSR) showed some of the results from his paper at the p&p Summit I pretty much had to check it out.
THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE ON SOFTWARE QUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL CASE STUDY
- Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy & Victor R. Basili
The MSR team examined the ...
Tags: Large teams, p&p, p&p Summit 2008
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Some videos of the talks from this year's p&p Summit are now available online: Driving Development With Acceptance Testing - Grigori Melnik & Michael Puleio Distributed Agile Development - Ade Miller Guidance for SharePoint/Windows SharePoint Services - Blaine Wastell & Francis Cheung This is just a selection of the ...
Tags: News & events, p&p Summit 2008
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
So right around the time of the p&p Summit Bob finally got his blog up and running. This means that all of the patterns & practices Developer team now have a blog. I thought I'd summarize them here. Espresso Fueled Agile Development - Mike's blog on agile development, the ...
Tags: Blogging, p&p, p&p Summit 2008
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Pat Helland gave an awesome keynote last week at the p&p Summit. I wasn't able to blog about it until today as he gave the same talk at TechEd in Europe yesterday. You can read the abstract here. He got through over sixty slides in an hour so this just ...
Tags: Green IT, p&p, p&p Summit 2008, Seattle
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
John deVadoss and David Hill gave this morning's keynote at the p&p Summit. They ran through a top ten list of things that p&p will be focusing on moving forward... Questions - Your feedback is number one There is a Method - What is the product frame ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
On Tuesday at the p&p Summit in Redmond J.D. Meier talked for the first time about the work he's been doing on the new Application Architecture Guide 2.0 for p&p. We've just released a beta of this on CodePlex and are discussing some of the thinking behind it with the ...
Tags: News & events, p&p, p&p Summit 2008, Seattle
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Kent Beck gave the keynote at the p&p Summit today and had some interesting thoughts on strategies for evolving your design. Leap from one design to another. This seldom works but when it does it's great. Parallel implementations of different designs, get them both working at the same time ...
Tags: News & events, p&p, p&p Summit 2008, Seattle
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
This week is the patterns & practices Summit so I'm sitting in the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond. Tomorrow I'll be speaking about our experiences at p&p with distributed agile development and hopefully talking to some of our customers about their challenges in this area. Chris Sims reviewed the distributed ...
Tags: Distributed teams, News & events, p&p Summit 2008, Seattle
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