FYI – I’m not covering the pricing and licensing debate in this post. I’m still plowing through the large volume of blog posts, articles and e-mail I’ve accumulated on the topic. I’ll be blogging about it soon. Visual...

In planning our 4th Sprint, which is currently in progress, we wrestled with determining how much backlog each individual and the team as a whole can deliver. The part that was difficult was figuring out how much cost affects each person on the team....

This site [ Developer Readiness Program ] has a nice little treasure trove of posters and other resources about Microsoft technologies. See their Published Media page for particulars.

Yesterday, SA Architect [ www.SaArchitect.net ] posted an early review of Team System [ A journey through the world of Microsoft Team System... ] by Willy-Peter Schaub . “So is it a solution? In our opinion the solution will add immense value...

Here is some more information on the webcasts I mentioned in this post [ Attend a Visual Studio 2005 Team System Webcast and Qualify to Win a Portable Media Center ]. Day/Date/Time Title Level Abstract Presenter...

Visual Studio 2005 Team System Webcast Series Are you interested in building robust and reliable, mission-critical applications? From architecture through development and testing, the integrated tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System...

Eric Sink’s post on the subject helps rationalize the recent Team System pricing and licensing announcement. He addresses many of the items I’ve been discussing with contacts on my IM list. I know it still won’t sit well with some people...

Congratulations to my little brother Paul, his wife Tracey, and their son Rhett on the newest addition to their family, Brandt Lawson Caron, who was born this morning.

In an earlier post, I blogged about planned Team System breakout sessions [ Team System Sessions at TechEd 2005 in Orlando ]. Here’s a list of the hands-on labs: DEV10 Developing Robust and Reliable Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio...

The big news for Team System today is the announcement of the much-awaited pricing and licensing details. Adding the Express and Team Editions to the Visual Studio product line includes a restructuring of MSDN subscription options. One surprise is that...

2005–03–21: Team System Pricing & Licensing Visual Studio Team System NDoc is an open source utility for creating documentation based on .NET assemblies and has been a frequent topic on Rick LaPlante ’s European Tour. He’d...

A new two-part article from Mickey Williams about Visual Studio 2005 Team Architect’s Logical Datacenter Designer is now available on MSDN: Introduction to Logical Datacenter Designer, Part 1 Learn how the Team Architect Edition designer...

MSDN Technical Briefing: Visual Studio Team System Product Team - On Tour – London - 4 March 2005 Download "Introduction" as a PowerPoint document (416 KB/1 min 57 secs at 56 Kbps) Download "Session 1: Managing the Software Lifecycle...

One area where we have deviated from Scrum is in terms of how we apply the role of ScrumMaster. According to Scrum, one person takes on the role of ScrumMaster to facilitate the team on a day to day basis. The ScrumMaster doesn't do anything else because...

Making Scrum work with UE has been an interesting task. Scrum was not designed with UE in mind. We have been taking each Scrum concept and then trying to figure out how it applies to what we do. For example, we had to think about backlog. What is our...

I work with David Chesnut on Team Foundation documentation. Recently, he started blogging within Microsoft about our use of Scrum to manage our documentation development. With his permission, I’ll be cross-posting his internal posts (as appropriate...

Rick LaPlante (Expert): Q: What kinds of additional support will VS 2005 have for schema-based web services design? Will xsd.exe be enhanced so that it handles a greater variety of schema designs? A: inside of the VSTS Team Architect edition we have...

Sam Guckenheimer (Expert): Q: Will Team System force you to choose a methodology, or can you start a team project without one? A: You need to start a team project with a "precess template", because that's the holder of the definitions of groups, permissions...

Matt Nicholson recently interviewed Steve Cook on software factories for DNJ Online [ Inside Software Factories ]. They discussed the history of software factories, partial classes, domain-specific languages, and UML 2.0. It’s an excellent read...

Chat Transcript: Consuming Web Services in Visual Basic .NET (4/2002) Summary: The transcript for a chat I participated in with Paul Yuknewicz and Alan Griver. Getting Started with XML Web Services in Visual Basic.NET and Visual C# (10/2002) Summary...

Thanks for the reminder, Scott. I spent this past weekend watching Season 3 on DVD. I love this show! Today is "The Shield" Day "The Shield" Fans... The wait is over! Tonight is the season premiere of the 4th Season of the hard-hitting cop drama...

Yesterday, was Robin & Liangxiao Demonstrate the Application Designer (Part 1) . Today, Part 2 is available. [via Josh Ledgard ] Robin and Liangxiao complete their demonstration of the application designer in this video. Here you'll see the...

There are quite a few Visual Studio Team System webcasts on the schedule for this month and next: Monday, 3/21 – MSDN Webcast: Introduction to Visual Studio Team System (Level 200) Tuesday, 3/22 – MSDN Webcast: Drill down into Visual...

Time to flush the queue for Team System stuff… Visual Studio Team System Postcards from Europe. Rick LaPlante [ European Road Show... and VSTS Vienna ] VSTS Tour in Paris. Jerome Laban [ Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Tour, Paris...

[via Josh Ledgard ] “Robin and Liangxiao are both SDETs on the Whitehorse Team. In part one of this two part video talk about life on the VSTS team and kick off a demonstration of how the Application Designer can be used in a team environment...