October 2007 - Posts

Now on MSDN: patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
You can now find our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications on MSDN in HTML. It's the same guidance we hosted on CodePlex. CodePlex was our channel for agile release of the guidance. Once we baked the guidance, we ported Read More...
Posted 27 October 07 07:59 by J.D. Meier | 8 Comments   
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Performance Testing Videos Posted to CodePlex
Today we posted our Performance Testing Videos to CodePlex. They're a companion set for our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications . Video Index Here's a list of the videos: Video: What Is - The Core Activities of Performance Read More...
Posted 27 October 07 06:20 by J.D. Meier | 7 Comments   
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Now on MSDN: patterns & practices Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide
You can now find our patterns & practices Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server guide on MSDN in HTML. It's the same guidance we hosted on CodePlex. CodePlex was our channel for agile release. Once we baked the guidance, we ported Read More...
Posted 26 October 07 11:22 by J.D. Meier | 6 Comments   
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TGIF (10/26/07)
I happened to glance at the MSFT stock. I took a snapshot because I thought it was make believe. Either way, it made me smile. Read More...
Posted 26 October 07 07:07 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
Results-Focused Teams Over Role-Focused Teams
In my experience, talent and passion are the keys to effective teams. It's not better defined roles. In PM Tip#14: Great teams have members that defy roles , Brad Abrams writes that the best teams defy traditional roles and responsibilities, and I agree. Read More...
Posted 25 October 07 09:02 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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How To Use Time Boxing for Getting Results
Time boxing is a way to chunk up time and get results. If you continously miss windows of opportunity or spend all of your time in one area of your life at the expense of others, time boxing can be one of your best tools. A time box is simply a limited Read More...
Posted 21 October 07 10:46 by J.D. Meier | 6 Comments   
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Actions, Insights and Notes
I find chunking my notes from lectures and training helps me turn insights into action. I chunk my notes into three categories: Actions - this is a tickler list of things I'm going to go do. Insights - this is a tickler list of distinctions and "ah-ha"'s Read More...
Posted 21 October 07 03:34 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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How To: Create a “Hello World” WCF Service Using Visual Studio
Here's a quick step through of using WCF in Visual Studio 2005. In this case I used a local machine, running Windows 2003, for the service and the client. There's lot of possible paths, and this is just one path through. I focused on "Hello World" to Read More...
Posted 15 October 07 09:32 by J.D. Meier | 6 Comments   
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Scenarios in Practice
Scenarios are a practical way to organize and focus your product design, development and release. (We use scenario-driven engineering in patterns & practices) Key Benefits Business value . You can use scenarios to evaluate business value. What pain Read More...
Posted 15 October 07 03:21 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Guidance Explorer: A Top Download on CodePlex
It was a nice surprise to see that our Guidance Explorer is among the top downloads on CodePlex . Read More...
Posted 15 October 07 01:24 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Growth Mind-set Over Fixed Mind-set
Do you have to be great at everything? If this stops you from doing things you want to try, then it's a limiting belief. Scott Berkun spells this out in Why You Should Be Bad at Something . Keys to Growing Your Skills Here's a set of practices and mind-sets Read More...
Posted 14 October 07 08:30 by J.D. Meier | 6 Comments   
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Links: patterns and practices links
I did a quick round-up of some key patterns & practices team links and figured I'd share: MSDN patterns & practices MSDN Home patterns & practices Roadmap Team Blogs Ade Miller's blog Alan Ridlehoover Andrew Delin Blaine Wastell Don Smith Read More...
Posted 12 October 07 09:58 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Patterns and Practices for New Hires
Whether you're a new hire or taking on a new job, here's some principles, patterns and practices to be more effective. They're lessons learned from the school of hard knocks and they represent some of the proven practices that have worked for others and Read More...
Posted 08 October 07 04:44 by J.D. Meier | 6 Comments   
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My Cockpit
A few readers asked me to show some screens of my approach in Outlook. (I haven't used images in my blog before, so this is a good post to give it a shot.) My Outlook Folders Here's what I see when in my Outlook folders. Notice how I cluster my scannable Read More...
Posted 07 October 07 12:57 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
Collection Pools
How do you store your notes and reference information in a way that’s low overhead and easy to find? The key is to created a limited set of places to look that you trust. I use a small set of what I call Collection Pools. I think of them as pools because Read More...
Posted 04 October 07 03:58 by J.D. Meier | 5 Comments   
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Vision Scope Template
How do you convince a team of venture capitalists to bet on you? There's a lot of ninja techniques but here I'll share the fundamentals. Vision and Scope We use Vision Scope milestones in patterns and practices to sell management on how we'll change the Read More...
Posted 04 October 07 03:34 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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It's the Fast That Eat the Slow
Using speed as a competitive advantage is less about finding ways to do things quicker. It's more about eliminating speedbumps. In It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business Read More...
Posted 03 October 07 07:21 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Testing Your Organizational Clarity
How do you figure out what your organization is really about? It's one thing to know it intutitively. It's another to be able to share it or have meaningful dialogue. Here's the tests I use lately to know what a team or org is really about: Tests for Read More...
Posted 02 October 07 05:09 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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