How Organizational Structure Effects Software Quality: Learnings From Windows Vista

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 ...

Videos From The patterns & practices Summit Now Online

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 ...

patterns & practices Developer Team Blogs

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 ...

Pat Helland on Green Computing through Sharing

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 ...

The patterns & practices Top Ten

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 ...