I’m speaking at Agile Development Practices 2008

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 ...

Agile 2008 – One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration

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 ...

Acceptance Test Engineering guidance CTP ships!

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!

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 ...

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 ...