March 2005 - Posts
Last year I got swept into the national craze with Texas Hold 'Em poker. As I was playing various friends and at the casinos, I wondered how many of my C++ teammates enjoyed the game, too. So last fall I set up a No Limit tournament open only to the VC++
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So to keep up with the project management in VC++ land, we are right now only fixing show-stopping bugs. We also call this period recall class mode, which means that we would recall the media for the bug fix. As the days of March get crossed off the calendar,
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The Thursday before last was the last day of the conference. It was a choice of various half-day tutorials. For me, the first portion was about requirements development, primarily based on the Microsoft Press book "Software Requirements." Interesting
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Yesterday and today were "session days" while Monday and tomorrow are "tutorial days." It's been interesting to take a step into the world of the software industry that is passionate about the formal frameworks for development and process improvement.
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I promised to blog-as-I-go, and here's my initial thoughts on Day 1. Today I took the tutorial on Personal Process . I liked that it was something I think I can incorporate in my work without signing our team up for TSP and CMMI. The general idea is that
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Are you wondering what the team is up to right now? Well, along with many other teams in the Developer Division, we are feverishly working to bring you our next Beta. We've been in what we call "Ask Mode" for four weeks now and have only taken around
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Since studying project management in the latter part of my undergraduate work, as you may have noted in the Project Management Reality entry, I've tried to keep up to speed on the various professional efforts to create systems for managing software development.
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