The conference was good. The weather was way too hot, but that is another issue entirely. I attended a number of good sessions and a few dull ones. There was not really anything in the middle. There was also not a lot in the middle as far as experience...

I have been using Sandcastle internally for years at Microsoft. It has helped automate API documentation for internal tool frameworks, helped the test teams I have worked with understand things a bit better, and required me to comment my code a little...

A while back, I posted about the space the patterns & practices team built in collaboration with the Workplace Advantage folks ( here and here ). Today, two articles by others were brought to my attention, and I'd like to talk about them. First...

I've been in Minneapolis attending the Agile 2006 conference since Sunday. Things have been going quite well. I've enjoyed a number of talks, tutorials, experience reports, and research papers. Some of the talks were not as good as I would have liked...

Check out http://www.on10.net . They have been in beta for months and recently went live with version 1.0 .

I know that there a quite a few agilists at Microsoft. In my reading over the weekend, I saw this blog ( Only Passionate People Win ) by Young Joo, and I had to comment. Here are a few of his posts on agile topics with my comments: Abusing Agile...

A friend of mine (John Boal) has created a site ( The Committee for UN-SCRUM Activities ) where he has the ultimate bad definition for the term "Agile": Agile 1. The ability to use popular buzzwords like "sprint" and "scrum" without having to really...

The patterns & practices team has just released a few things. Here is the list (and where I first saw the posts) Smart Client Software Factory (posted by Brad and Peter ) Guidance Automation Extensions and Toolkit Community Release (thanks...