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Enterprise Library 5.0 … and we’re off!
20 April 09 11:56 AM
We have officially started our development work on EntLib5.0. Earlier I’ve shared our product backlog , which was largely driven by you, the community. Our initial plan is to ship in early 2010. If you want to stay tuned with what we’re doing, the best Read More...
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(Un)training puppies or adventures into the world of agile
20 March 09 06:18 PM
As I was going through postings from our internal agile discussion forum (yes, we do have one at Microsoft and it’s pretty vibrant too, with, on average, about a dozen of messages daily), I came across the draft of Sara Ford’s story about how she learnt Read More...
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Where to find useful stuff from the Agile conference?
13 March 09 10:31 PM
Agile conference traditionally publishes proceedings (that’s where you find all research papers and experience reports ). Attendees also receive a CD or a memory stick with tutorial materials (decks, handouts, demos etc.). Several main stage talks are Read More...
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Agile Perspectives PDC Workshop
31 October 08 08:14 PM
As promised, here’s the deck Mary Poppendieck and I used during the workshop . We hope it was worth the attendees’ time. We encourage you to try new techniques we talked about and let us know how your agile adoption is going. For more information, visit Read More...
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Attachment(s):http://gmelnik.com/talks/PDC2008%20Pre-con%20Agile%20Perspectives%20MPoppendieck%20GMelnik.pdf
Agile PreCon at PDC 2008
29 September 08 08:38 PM
Mary Poppendieck and I are set to run a pre-conference workshop on Agile Perspectives: Industry and Microsoft . In it, we will provide our observations on what works, what doesn’t in the world of agile, and why (we call this segment of the workshop “Reality Read More...
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Agile2008 selected sessions online
17 August 08 08:26 PM
You wish you could have made it to Agile2008 in Toronto 2 weeks ago? A small number of sessions is now available online. 18 sessions have been recorded, 3 of which are already made available: − Natural Laws of Software Development - Deriving Agile Practices Read More...
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Acceptance Test Engineering guide - How to Decide if Software is Ready for You or Your Customer - Community Preview 2 released
06 August 08 08:32 AM
On Monday, we released our CTP2 on Codeplex: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance . You’ll see it now includes the consumption model and also some recommendations on how to read the guide. There are three parts. Part I. Narratives and Models - this is Read More...
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Upcoming conferences - where I'll be (May - Oct 2008)
31 May 08 08:45 AM
Tech-Ed 2008 Developers , June 2-6, Orlando, FL. I’ll be giving a talk on the Enterprise Library (DVP02-TLC). I’ll be also hanging out in the exhibition areas (mainly, Process & Project Management (DVP- VSTS 2008)). CAST 2008 , July 14-17, Toronto, Read More...
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Empirical Evidence of Agile Methods: ce que nous savons, ce que nous pensons savoir et ce que nous voulons savoir
13 May 08 07:37 AM
I gave two versions of my talk on the Empirical Evidence of Agile Methods : What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Would Like to Know at the patterns & practices summit in Québec City, Canada and the Agile Québec user group last week. Here’re Read More...
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Unity project heartbeat
04 March 08 08:43 PM
Those who follow the work of our team on Unity have probably noticed a certain rhythm we follow – of weekly Unity CTP drops on Tuesdays. Today, we did another one. It has some changes to the API (described at http://www.codeplex.com/unity/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=11319 Read More...
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Tests and Requirements, Requirements and Tests: A Möbius Strip
22 January 08 02:43 PM
Over a year ago, Robert Martin and I wrote a paper on exploring and disambiguating requirements with acceptance tests. In it we formulate the equivalence hypothesis - as formality increases, acceptance tests and requirements become indistinguishable. Read More...
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Agile 2008 Conference - new model, many changes - part 1
15 January 08 01:21 AM
Catching up on blogging about Agile 2008 Conference , for which I am a Program Chair. Luckily, I am part of an amazing squad of 40+ enthusiasts and their teams, led by the fearless trio: Rachel Davies (who is the General Chair), Mary Poppendieck (who Read More...
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Scrum at Macro and Micro Levels
17 September 07 11:47 AM
Scrum has come of age. Not only it is entering the mainstream of modern software development, but it is, IMHO, the most popular/successful agile method for project management today. It was not the case a few years ago, when XP dominated the agile world. Read More...
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