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One of My Favorite Things

I just noticed myself smiling. This is one of my favorite things - the way I develop plans and proposals. I love doing the research: finding best practices, looking for the latest guidance, reviewing my old text books, reviewing notes from interviewing
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Moving on again!

Hey there blog readers :) Just a quick post to let you know that I am moving again - this time to Microsoft Surface I have been in our Developer Division for 11 years; I have had a great time working on the development of Microsoft Help 3.0, and unforgettable

VC Team Release Candidate Drive Activity

Many of you probably wonder what happens after a final Beta and before the final release. We will work to deliver a Release Candidate, which we will use to validate the resolution of Beta 2 issues that met the product "bar." Also, as we shut down the
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Recall Class

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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Day 4 and Final SEPG 2005 Thoughts

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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Days 2 & 3 at SEPG

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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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
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What's the VC++ team doing right now?

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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Ready to Go - SEPG 2005 in Seattle

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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Project Management Reality

Warning: This post is more of an editorial than information sharing. This was the number one topic on my mind this week (aside from reading all of your great feedback!). In my experience it seems that all ongoing or repetitive projects go through cycles
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