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Guidance Explorer: enabling discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance

Several of our MVPs just recently “discovered” the Guidance Explorer project run by our very on patterns & practices team even though it’s been released for some time now.  Since this was a surprise to many of them, I figured it’d be good mention

VSTS Guidance project update

I strongly encourage everyone to take a look at the VSTS Guidance project update recently posted by JD and the p&p team. It’s impressive! We embarked on this project after hearing from our customers that one of their top needs was more guidance on

Team System Guidance

J.D. Meier was recently telling me the way he distinguishes between product documentation and guidance...it's like the difference between the Owner's Manual and a Driver's guide. You need both but for different reasons. Traditionally, the product team

Organizing your source trees in TFS (an example)

I must be on a little patterns & practices binge right now now as this is my third post in the past week on something associated with them. Anyway, J.D. has posted a brief description of how they organize their source trees within TFS. One thing that
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Check out the p&p Channel 9 interview

Edward Jezierski and Peter Provost spoke with Rory of Channel 9 recently . Pretty interesting to hear about the history of the patterns and practices team who are now part of the Visual Studio Team System team. We're working hard to bring our teams together

Thousands and thousands of software factories!

Over 100,000 to be precise. Take a look at Soma's recent announcement of this important milestone for the software factories initiative . It's exciting to see the growing interest in this portion of Visual Studio Team System. For those of you that aren't

Performance Testing Guidance Project

As I learn more about our customers through our various community activities , I'm realizing how important in depth guidance is to increasing the success of our customers and their overall satisfaction with our product. We're working hard to beef up these
 
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