Archive for July, 2008

More Distributed Development Best Practices

Friday, July 18th, 2008

A couple more sources someone pointed me to on distributed agile. Worth a read but for the lazy I've summarized some key points here: Elastic Path uses Distributed Agile and Outsourcing to Stay on Top in Fast-Paced E-Commerce Software Choose a vendor with experience in ...

Microsoft p&p Summit 2008 Announced

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 ...

Blog Posts from the Dead?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

So I'm on vacation but the blog posts will keep on trundling along. This leaves the somewhat strange possibility that I died in a horrible auto wreck with a moose on the Trans-Canada Highway (not to be confused with the Trans-Canadian Water Slide). But to all intents I'm still alive ...

How Microsoft’s p&p Teams do Daily Standup Meetings

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 ...

Composite Application Guidance for WPF released

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 ...