Day 1 at SEPG 2005
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 the sooner we find defects, the cheaper, but I think that is a no brainer. What they offered, though, were some interesting exercises to prove their point and to demonstrate the concepts. It all makes sense and has more applications than I initially thought. This was a day long session, so other than meeting folks over lunch, and in the Exhibit Hall later, I didn't do much else to report on yet. I'm sure I'll have more to say as the next few days go by.
One thing that is clear is that people were fascinated that Microsoft has people attending and presenting. They wanted many more answers than I had available, which isn't difficult because I have zero answers around our attendance there. I am attending out of my own interest in the ideas and how they can help the VC++ team. I hope tomorrow's Microsoft presentation sheds some light!
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