Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio, from Concept to Continuous Feedback

In the last couple weeks, Steven Borg , Jeff Atwood and I did some one-day seminars on VSTS in California and Washington. I keynoted the day and they did the heavy lifting of detailed demos. In my talk, I demo’d some examples of how we inside Microsoft...

Last week I went on a Leadership Challenge Workshop. It was a combined review of 360˚ feedback from customers, peers and managers, and exercises based on the work of Kouzes & Posner . The feedback was largely positive, although I learned that I haven...

I recently spoke at the VSLive and STAR conferences in Orlando. (You can watch the VSLive talk here and I’ve attached the STAR slides to this post.) The contrast between the conferences was a good reminder that different audiences live at very different...

Let me start with thanks for Rob Caron ‘s persistence in encouraging me to blog. I haven’t blogged since the initial Team System announcement at Tech∙Ed in 2004 ( Announcing Visual Studio 2005 Team System ). I promised him that, as soon as my book went...