Jezz Santos is a Principal Product Development Consultant with Microsoft, currently working in the USA.
He specializes in partnering with Microsoft’s customers, helping them realize their successes in custom solution development, by building and applying advanced lean and agile software development processes, practices and tools. His goal is to enable customers to deliver custom solutions more predictably and consistently at drastically reduced costs, by encapsulating and reusing the knowledge and learnings of those in the organization and applying to them automation and guidance so that others can re-apply them – scaling the organization’s expertise. His vision is to help drive the software engineering industry forward from a boutique design industry into evolving, embracing and implementing standardization and reuse.
His career has led him around the globe in several countries of Europe, Asia, the South Pacific and the Americas. He has been emerged in product development since the mid 1990's, in a multitude of leadership roles in development and architecture for various types of companies including: research, independent software vendors, global solution integrators, and at Microsoft as a consultant. He has been at Microsoft more than 10 years in a principal architect and consulting role.
Jezz has worked very closely with the Microsoft Visual Studio teams and Microsoft patterns & practices team to help realize the concrete vision of software industrialization, developer guidance and pattern automation at Microsoft. He is a leader in many Microsoft software factory building initiatives and communities providing guidance and tooling innovations pushing automation and guidance forward. He is a leader in building lean and agile development teams, and centers of development excellence. You can find him speaking at various public technical events, and he is the author of several whitepapers and technical articles.
This blog was originally established (end of 2005) as a means to convey experiences in helping enterprise customers (and other consultants) with software development from the perspective of a field consultant faced with dealing, and caring deeply about many of the issues and pain faced by our customers with enterprise software development.
The blog has always had a strong sense of duty to expose the truth about the ‘strange’ pastime of software development today, cutting through the emotions and delving into the underlying root causes, and reasons for most of what we see as the outcome of the strange behaviours exhibited by professionals in this field. [Tag: Software Development Truths] Then intent has always been to share and promote open discussions about these observations, in a quest to address and help resolve these issues.
The blog, for a time, became the public channel for discussing and promoting the EFx Factory [Tag: EFx Software Factory], a pioneering software factory prototype that had evolved from much of the work in this space to concretely address some of these problems in the specific domain of enterprise application and service development.
“Software and Factories, and making sense of it for you”
Today, the blog has been re-purposed to focus upon giving down-to-earth guidance about software factory development and usage, in an attempt to educate and promote the adoption of this emerging approach. [Tag: Software Factories]
The primary objective has been to ‘socialise’ the software factories terminology and methods and raise understanding of this approach to be accessible to the wider developer audience. The blog aims to provide comprehensive content on timely, relevant topics to a developing factories community to address a need for more practical, real-world based information in this space.