Rob Caron announces a new member of Visual Studio Team System . It looks like database developers are going to get the same type of first-class tools that C/C++, C#, and VB developers get. Check it out.

I got an email today pointing out an article on Dr. Dobbs that discusses the change in mindset required to be part of an agile team as well as the roles on the team. This got me thinking about the changes I've made in how I think about software in order...

A while back , I mentioned the Agile 2006 Conference . At the time I was working on an Experience Report, "How Not To Do Agile Testing," which I'll be presenting at the conference. The paper highlights my experiences in MSN as our team adopted Scrum,...

Rob Caron links to the new MSDN article on TDD . This is a lot better than the original MSDN article.

One of the things we do here at p&p, in addition to providing guidance, tools, and reference implementations, is try to evolve the processes we use to write software.  Last week, over lunch, the developers here at p&p had an interesting discussion...

Here’s another survey, targeting Scrum. Let me know what your challenges with Scrum have been. Is there anything keeping you from using Scrum? What sort of show-stoppers have you run into? Did Scrum not work for your team? What was the toughest...

I've got a few questions that will help shape a few articles and posts that I’d like to do. Please post comments as answers. What sort of challenges have you run into while doing TDD? What challenges stumped you or forced you to come up...

As Jim points out , CodePlex has gone beta. I had seen an early version of CodePlex, and I was impressed with the feature set. In related news, this is the team that Brad recently left p&p to join .

Brad beat me to an update on the team space ( http://www.agileprogrammer.com/dotnetguy/archive/2006/05/15/14766.aspx ). Since Brad has left p&p, I should feel quite chagrined, but I don't. Instead of blogging, I've been fighting with servers and permissions...

I found out this morning that a friend and former co-worker of mine, Mitch Lacey , has a blog. A recent post of his is on resistance to change when adopting agile methodologies. The funny thing is, I'm one of the guys he quotes in this post, but I'm not...

Brad points out that you can now blog directly from Word 2007 Beta 2 . In fact, this post was created using Word. Pretty nifty.

Ok, this blog is titled "Espresso Fueled Agile Development." I've had a few posts on tools, agile workspaces, and such, but nothing on the fuel. Nothing on the stuff that keeps us going when our body is ready to give out. I don’t mean drive, ambition...

While we are still not moved in to the new space, a few folks are using their laptops to camp and it try out. I acquired a few candid pictures (thanks Steve Elston) to show off the new area. The above picture shows one of the largest workrooms in...

When I switched from VS2003 to VS2005, there were a few quirks that took some getting used to (and a few I am still adapting to). One of the biggest changes for me was the new web project structure. Thankfully, the VS team understood this, and we can...

News from E3: XBox.com has the Halo3 Trailer available to watch. One word: "Yipes" (No, that is not my first word choice, just the edited for TV version) I loved Halo, I enjoyed Halo2 (even though the game and storyline seemed too short). I'm looking...

Today, I only have time for a short note. Rather than do anything technical, I figured I let people in on what is going on in p&p. A while back, Darrell Snow mentioned the new team-oriented collaboration space that the patterns & practices...

The Microsoft patterns & practices DVDs are now available on the Try Visual Studio 2005 site. Thanks Peter for pointing this out .