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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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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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The annual agile conference hosted by Agile Alliance is being held in Toronto this year between Aug 4 th and 8 th ( http://www.agile2008.org ). I am sitting here on my plane to Toronto writing this blog post. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is a Gold
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I mentioned in an earlier post that I am part of the track team for PDC 2008 . As a team we spend close to 4 hours a week reviewing sessions, breakouts, lunch sessions, demo stations, track lounges and more. Mike Swanson , the content owner for this year's
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Some one asked me yesterday for a list of Team System user groups. And Chuck pointed me to his blog post here . This is probably not an exhaustive list. If you know of other Team System user groups that is not on this list, leave a comment here or in
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I as a developer (sure I am in the majority here) paid my dues with practicing waterfall and other bulky process/methodology before I stumbled on agile practices and learned by reading Kent's book on eXtreme Programming (XP). A colleague of mine introduced
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Team Foundation Server is a platform for process enactment with a collection of templates including the ones we ship in the box, ones from partners and from the community (See a list of templates at MSDN Process site). These range from MSF Agile template
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David Anderson , an ex-colleague of mine at Microsoft is the chair for this year's APLN Leadership summit in April. There are some great topics that are being planned for this year's summit including Collobration Games, Agile Program Management and Agile
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Two of our VSTS MVPs (Martin Danner and Joel Semeniuk) have just created a project on CodePlex to set you process templates free: Templex . This is a tremendous community idea and one I hope the community gather around and share some cool process customizations
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Martin Woodward has posted this really cool video demonstrating his new TFS powered bunny. Yes I said bunny. Check it out. http://www.woodwardweb.com/gadgets/000434.html . This is awesome Martin. Nice work. Now I know how to keepy my 3 year old daughter
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Stephanie just posted this in her blog. We have published a white paper to answer questions around SOX compliance and Team System. Congratulations Andrew for pulling this paper together. From the white paper: ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441754.aspx
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Charles Sterling our recently crowned VSTS Blogfather posted a blog entry a couple of weeks ago about not having a gallery page with list of available process templates for TFS. I guess it was the best kept secret then. Coz we do have a page ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/process
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Microsoft patterns & practices just released the TSMMD Power Tool February 2008 CTP. This release contains the patterns & practices Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD) and the Management Guide. The Team System Management Model
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Do you use Visual Studio Team System Architecture edition today? If so, tell us how you use this product, what you like and what you don't? If you don't own or use this product today, tell us why not? We'd love to have your feedback on what you think
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Microsoft patterns & practices recently released the following two new titles and they are now available in print from MS Press. Check it out and order your copy. Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - Now available at Amazon.com
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