Archive for January, 2009

Scrum Daily Standup Meetings: A Manager’s Field Guide

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

What do managers do when their teams are using Scrum or some other agile approach to software development? The notion of managers as facilitators was really brought home to me by Diana Larsen in a talk at Agile 2007. Daily standup is one of the first places the rubber meets ...

Windows 7 Beta on the Samsung NC10 Netbook

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Update: New version of this for the final Windows 7 release is here! The Windows 7 Team just announced a public beta and I’ve been itching to give it a try. I thought I’d see just how netbook friendly the Windows team have made Windows 7 and if a typical netbook ...

South Sound .NET Users Group Talk Postponed

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Postponed - Due to flooding, road closures and the impending end of life as we know it. We’ll be rescheduling in April.

I’m Speaking at the South Sound .NET Users Group

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Postponed - Due to flooding, road closures and the impending end of life as we know it. We'll be rescheduling in April. I'm speaking tomorrow night (8th Jan) at the South Sound .NET Users Group in Olympia on Continuous Integration and some of the tricks we've used at Microsoft to get ...