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Enterprise Library 5.0 – tentative product backlog published, story/feature prioritization is open – your participation is invited!

Published 27 March 09 12:01 AM

EntLib Community!

First of all, let me thank all of those who actively took part in providing their ideas and suggestions for the next version of EntLib. There are over 50 comments posted to my original invite and a similar number of emails, all of which have been reviewed by the EntLib team. In addition, we have analyzed the results of the EntLib satisfaction survey, examined discussions and issues posted on the EntLib community site and conducted extensive consultations with the members of our Advisory Board.

The list included over 100 items, most of which are exposed now. If we missed anything important there is still room for you to add some suggestions of your own.

We have also done “T-shirt sizing” of the stories – a rough, relative estimation of the effort involved in delivering a given story.

At this point, we would like to invite you to select and prioritize candidate features/stories you care about. Please review them carefully along with the associated effort estimates and cast your votes.  Do remember to stay within the budget (100 points). Here’s the link to the online survey.

NOTE: Due to the limitation of the surveying tool that doesn’t permit ranking matrices wider than 10, I had to flatten the survey that resulted in the 2nd page being rather long. It does NOT require you to answer all 20 questions though. You can vote for as few as top 5 and then move to the next page and vote for Integration Packs.  Also note, that the backlog with the codes is posted on a separate page (see the link in the survey) and you can open it in a separate window, screen or print for referencing. Alternatively, simply review the backlog and take notes of the features you care about and then simply select them as your priorities.

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We will analyze the results and produce the prioritized backlog defining what the team will focus on in the next several months. We will share the results of the prioritization exercise with the community.

Comments

# Anith » Enterprise Library 5.0 ??? tentative product backlog published, story/feature prioritization is open ??? your participation is invited! said on March 27, 2009 3:28 AM:

PingBack from http://www.anith.com/?p=23543

# Notes From the Team Room said on March 27, 2009 12:47 PM:

Grigori Melnik has posted a survey on features for Enterprise Library v5.  Please take a look and

# J.D. Meier's Blog said on March 28, 2009 12:11 PM:

Now's your chance to influence patterns & practices Enterprise Library 5.0.  You can do so by

# ajoyk - patterns and practices, VSTS, Process said on March 29, 2009 2:57 PM:

Influence the features that makes it into the next version of Enterprise Library  v5.0. Grigori

# List<Stuff> said on March 30, 2009 3:23 AM:

Como todos sabr&eacute;is, Enterprise Library es un conjunto de componentes reutilizables que podemos

# Don Smith said on March 30, 2009 2:01 PM:

Grigori , the PM for Enterprise Library , just posted version 5's tentative backlog stories and is giving

# Fernando Simonazzi said on March 30, 2009 3:32 PM:

Grigori Melnik has invited the EntLib community to select and prioritize the stories for the next version

# Community Blogs said on March 30, 2009 4:37 PM:

There are few groups within Microsoft that are as open and so quick to deliver as patterns &amp;amp;

# Anon2312341234 said on March 30, 2009 4:40 PM:

With a survey like that, I have very little hope for the next version.

Work on usability.

Include a complete installer.

# Tom Hollander's blog said on March 30, 2009 6:34 PM:

As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a blogging vacation of late. Rest assured that I’m

# { WillyXoft .NET } said on March 30, 2009 6:37 PM:

El equipo de Microsoft patterns&amp;practices nos invita a participar en la votación sobre las características...

# gmelnik said on March 30, 2009 9:46 PM:

@Anon

I don't know if you've noticed the note in red box above.

If you have *constructive* suggestions on how to arrange a ranking matrix for 120 items (and upto 20 priorities) in the format that only supports the maximum width of 10, I would be very interested in hearing those.

Thanks.

-- Grigori

# progg.ru said on March 30, 2009 11:27 PM:

Thank you for submitting this cool story - Trackback from progg.ru

# SpoonsJTD said on March 31, 2009 5:07 PM:

Do you have a blog post or other potential link where you talk about the 'integration pack' concept? An 'Integration Pack for SharePoint' sounds much like what I spent my $100's on (SharePoint-specific extensions).

# Architect Evangelist - Linda Chong's Blog said on April 2, 2009 10:39 PM:

Microsoft patterns &amp; practices is excited to announce the release of: Hands-on Labs for Microsoft

# Kirk Evans Blog said on April 3, 2009 8:41 AM:

Microsoft patterns &amp; practices is excited to announce the release of: Hands-on Labs for Microsoft

# Microsoft Enterprise Library News (in Chinese) said on April 6, 2009 12:37 AM:

你可以看到 EntLib5.0 初步计划。它是基于社区的 反馈意见 ,基于对 EntLib 社区网 问题栏和讨论论坛的回顾,和基于对 EntLib 满意度调查结果 和咨询委员会提出的建议的的分析。 请仔细阅读并对您关心的事项投票。如果我们错过了什么重要的地方你仍然可以添加一些自己的建议。

# Geoffrey Emery said on April 8, 2009 10:27 AM:

Microsoft Patterns and Practices Releases Hands on Labs for Entity Library and Unity

# Grigori Melnik: Thoughts on Agile Software Engineering and Beyond said on April 16, 2009 2:55 PM:

Some two weeks ago, we exposed the preliminary product backlog for Enterprise Library 5.0 and invited

# Hernan de Lahitte's blog said on April 22, 2009 11:43 AM:

This community call is a bit old (Jan 09) but just in case you never noticed, here are the posts/links

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