Grigori Melnik: Thoughts on Agile Software Engineering and Beyond : videos

Enterprise Library 5.0 preview video posted

gmelnik — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:46:00 GMT

The talk Bob and I gave at the p&p Redmond summit in October is now available for online viewing. In it we discuss and demo (use time breakpoints to fast forward to a specific topic):

the overall theme of the release – simplicity & improved user experience (00:00)
data accessors (06:25)
higher performing logging (18:00)
fluent configuration interface (20:32)
config tool facelift and making it easier to plug in custom extensions to the config tool (30:18) –
honouring validation attributes between VAB and System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations (41:08)
tackling external and internal complexity with architectural refactoring and resulting testability improvements (42:16)
container independence (43:34)

Enjoy! If you like what you see and want to play with EntLib5.0, download the most recent bits from entlib.codeplex.com and provide your feedback.

Enterprise Library v5 preview at the p&p Summit 2009

Video on what’s coming in EntLib 5.0

gmelnik — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:01:11 GMT

In this channel9 video, Chris and I give a 10,000 ft view on what’s coming in EntLib5.0. For details, consult our product backlog.

What is Enterprise Library team currently up to?

gmelnik — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:10:00 GMT

After shipping Enterprise Library v4.1, the team is focusing on the ease-of-use and learnability aspects of both EntLib and Unity. Our top stories of the current backlog include the following:

Unity for Silverlight [Done - 12/14/2008]
Comprehensive Enterprise Library FAQs [Done - 2/10/2009]
Validation Block Hands-on Lab [Done - 1/3/2009]
Interception Hands-on Lab [Done - 3/18/2009]
Unity Extensibility documentation [In Dev]
New video on Unity (level 200)
New video on Unity Extensibility (level 400)
Customer satisfaction survey analysis [Done]

These are all things we plan on doing prior to starting Enterprise Library v5 research and planning work early next year.

Agile PreCon at PDC 2008

gmelnik — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:38:57 GMT

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 of agile”). The objective is to provide pragmatic advice, recommendations and actions that you could use tomorrow to improve the way your teams produce software.

Mary, the author of popular Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean books, will provide her lean perspective from many years in the industry (if you want to find out more about Mary, check out this really good interview that Scott Hanselman took with both Mary and Tom Poppendieck, in which they challenge the notion of success in software industry). In turn, I am going to share my experience from several projects at Microsoft patterns & practices. Several other colleagues from Microsoft will join our panel at the end of the day to debate hot issues of agility. The floor will be open to audience participation. Mary and I identified several hot issues to bring up. However, it would be really good to know what kind of stuff you’d prefer us to touch upon. Please post your At-Issue suggestions in response to this post or simply email me. Thanks and see you in LA!

Agile2008 selected sessions online

gmelnik — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:26:00 GMT

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 by Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson

− "We suck less!" Isn't mediocrity great? by David Douglas, Robin Dymond

− New Car Development in Toyota by Kenji Hiranbe

Another 15 will be gradually published at http://www.infoq.com/agile2008/:

− Future Directions for Agile by David Anderson

− 10 ways to screw up with Scrum and XP by Henrik Kniberg

− Agile and Beyond - The power of aspirational teams! by Tim Mackinnon

− Agile in Practice: What is ACTUALLY Going On Out There by Scott Ambler

− Prioritizing Your Product Backlog by Mike Cohn

− Manager's Introduction to Test-Driven Development by Dave Nicolette, Karl Scotland

− When Working Software Is Not Enough: A Story of Project Failure by Mitch Lacey

− Extremely Short Iterations as a Catalyst for Effective Prioritization of Work by Mishkin Berteig

− Fostering Software Craftsmanship in a Corporate Setting by Scott Dillman

− Measuring Agile in the Enterprise: 5 Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Adoption by Michael Mah

− Colossal, Scattered, and Chaotic (Planning with a Large Distributed Team by Wes Williams, Mike Stout

− Now that the team's head is in the game, how do you get their heart in? by Jim McCarthy

− Technical lessons learned turning the agile dials to eleven! by Craig Smith, Paul King

− Introduction to Lean Software Development by Alan Shalloway

− Fully Distributed Scrum: The Secret Sauce for Hyperproductive Outsourced Development Teams by Jeff Sutherland

In addition, Alan Cooper’s "The Wisdom of Experience" keynote is available as a slide deck with speaker’s notes at http://www.cooper.com/journal/agile2008/

Note, InfoQ also hosts videos of several excellent sessions from the previous Agile2007 conference, including:

− The Role of Leadership in Software Development by Mary Poppendieck

− Succeeding With Agile: A Guide To Transitioning by Mike Cohn

− Agile in the Waterfall Enterprise by Michele Sliger

− The Agile Enterprise: Real World Experience in Creating Agile Companies by Jeff Sutherland

All experience reports and research papers will be available online via IEEEExplore. Search for 'Agile' under 'Conference Proceedings'.