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I am writing this blog post from India. I am in Chennai on vacation and having a great time connecting with family and friends. It is a hot and humid and that is to be expected. What is not to be expected though is the traffic pattern here in Chennai.
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We concluded another great p&p Summit in Redmond between Nov 3rd and 7th. This event garnered the highest satisfaction score of all the summit held so far. 99% of the attendees indicated they will recommend this summit to others. We have published
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Thanks to those of you that attended the agile pre con at PDC 2008. If you haven’t done so already, please take a moment to fill out the eval form to let us know what you liked, what you didn’t and what can we do to make it better the next time. Eval
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PDC 2008 has started already. At least for those of us involved in the pre conferences and the various other events that are happening today. I am here at the Agile Pre Conference and it is underway. Pic: Grigori kicking off the Agile Pre con.
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That's right. If you are going to be at PDC, I look forward to talking to you. Stop by and say hello. I will be happy to share what we are working on at Microsoft p & p . Tell us what you think. Are we focusing on the right areas? What else do you
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We have been running Microsoft patterns & practices summit for a few years now. The next summit will be held in Redmond between Nov 3rd and 7th. You can learn more about this summit by clicking here .We have an impressive list of keynote speakers
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You have heard about the facility at p&p and how it’s built for agile teams. Now get a view inside one of the team rooms at p&p. In this video, I and Ade Miller give you a walkthrough of a team room and show off the various features of it such
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Mike Azocar (one of the authors of the VSTS Lightweight Scrum template) will be presenting: Scrum-tastic Development with Visual Studio Team System and Light Weight Scrum Thursday, September 25 th , 2008 | 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT, Redmond time) https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/join?id=NR4H9T&role=attend&pw=4402ml-2S65
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In an earlier post , I mentioned about NetObjectives "Implementing Agile Development" process template for Visual Studio Team System. Now you can download this template from Templex , a TFS Process Library project in CodePlex. This template was developed
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At Microsoft patterns & practices, teams use Visual Studio Team System to manage their agile projects. Index cards are a key tool for agile teams to manage their tasks. Ade Miller from p&p posted this blog detailing two techniques that teams at
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I sat down with Mary and Grigori during Agile 2008 Conference to talk about their plans for the Agile Pre Conference at PDC 2008. The video is now live in Channel 9. Countdown to PDC2008: Did somebody say Agile Pre Con at PDC? Chat with Mary and Grigori.
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Conchango released version 2 of their Scrum for Team System template several months ago. Simon Bennett from Conchango mentioned about the different utilities that their team built along the way. One of them is the "Work Item Migration utility". Here is
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. Recently Grigori Melnik and I did a code cast with David Starr and Chris Brandsma from Elegant Code . In this code cover we covered a range of topic. Here is an excerpt from the Elegant Code site: "Chris and David were lucky enough to sit down (okay,
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Check this blog post from Grigori with the links to the recorded sessions that are now available online. From Grigori's post: 18 sessions have been recorded, 3 of which are already made available: − Natural Laws of Software Development - Deriving Agile
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I am writing this from the Agile 2008 Conference. Michael Leeds from VersionOne informed me that they released their connector to TFS this week. Check out the details here . I am thrilled to see Agile partners building integration into TFS. Update (8/29):
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