I worked on my first XP project with John Boal. He recently did a post on ScrumBut . I have mentioned ScrumBut and Scrummerfall before, but this is a good, quick read with a few good tips. A lot of the concepts carry over to XP as well. I'll add something...

The other day, we shipped the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Release . Before we shipped, I asked the team to audit all the open work items in the queue on the SCSF community site's Issue Tracker and determine what we had fixed. We had used...

The April 2008 release of the Smart Client Software Factory is now available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx . This is a port of the last release (May 2007, if I recall correctly) to VS2008. No new features were added. A few...

This is the forth post in a series. The other post include Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer Converting the Composite...

Friday, I posted we had a solid Beta. Today, I am letting you know that SCSF now has a Release Candidate (RC) . The bug that appeared Friday is, we think, fixed. We actually published the RC before we completed any internal testing, so the customer who...

The SCSF April 2008 Beta Release that supports Visual Studio 2008 is now available. We fixed all the known issues from the Alpha. It is solid , and may actually be a release candidate, rather than a beta. Enjoy.

As I mentioned before ( Acceptance Testing Guidance , Grigori's Take on the Acceptance Testing Project ), I am working on guidance around acceptance testing with Grigori . We now have alive CodePlex site that we can work from: patterns & practices...

For the past month or so, Blaine and I have been overseeing the development of the April release of the Smart Client Software Factory. This release is being done mostly by a team of vendors, freeing Blaine to run Prism and I to run the Acceptance Testing...

This is the third post in a series. The other post include Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer If you want background, go read the...

Some of you may remember that waaaay back in October (and earlier) the Web Client Software Factory team was shipping these things called "bundles". A bundle was all a developer needed to get started and learn about a single concept, like the Model View...

I am a little late to the party, but Unity shipped last week. Here are a few other posts about it: Grigori: Unity DI container 1.0 shipped! Chris: Unity 1.0 is released! I have used Unity in an internal project here at p&p, as well as a proof of concept...

The other day, I mentioned a new project here at p&p, Acceptance Testing Guidance , Grigori has his own take on the project, Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance - project kick-off . Check it out.

This is the second post in a series. The initial post is Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . If you want background, go read the first post. EDIT: Based upon feedback, I am making the source code available at CWAB and Unity...

A few weeks ago, I decided I needed to play with the Unity Dependency Injection container . I wanted to see how Chris and the rest of the team had designed it and see how usable the container was. I had seen requests on the Web Client Software Factory...

On Monday, Grigori and I kicked off a new project: Acceptance Testing Guidance Actually, we kicked off a pre-project planning project. In two to three weeks, we need to decide if there is enough demand for guidance on acceptance testing to warrant a real...

I spent two weeks between full time projects (still working on the 2 part time projects I am on) looking back at the build logs from the past 6 months (or so) trying to figure out what metrics we have, what we should track going forward, and what goals...