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Experience-Driven Development
Features don’t necessarily aggregate up to “experiences” and I would argue that today’s winning approach is … … Experience-Driven Development … Where experience means user’s can perform their goals successfully… the software makes them feel good and succeed Read More...
Posted 15 September 09 06:46 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Lessons in Software from Mike de Libero
I have a guest post, Lesson in Software from Mike de Libero , on Shaping Software.  Mike was a security tester on the Microsoft Office team and has a variety of experiences under his belt.   Here is a summary of his lessons: Lesson 1. All Read More...
Posted 20 July 09 05:37 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Lessons in Software from James Waletzky
I have a guest post, Lessons in Software from James Waletsky , on Shaping Software .  James is a Development lead at Microsoft, with several years of coaching teams on Agile practices and software engineering under his belt.  Here is a summary Read More...
Posted 06 July 09 07:21 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava
I have a guest post, Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava , on Shaping Software .  Alok is a solution architect at Microsoft with several years of experience in large scale, distributed systems.  In this post, he shares his lessons learned Read More...
Posted 29 June 09 07:20 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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Customer Connected Engineering
I posted slides on how we do Customer Connected Engineering at patterns & practices to Shaping Software .  Customers Connected Engineering (CCE) is how we engage customers throughout our product development. We formally engage customers during Read More...
Posted 19 May 09 06:00 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Agile Architecture Method Revisited
I posted an update to the Agile Architecture method on Shaping Software .  When I originally posted about the Agile Architecture method, I took some things for granted.  I thought the mapping to agile practices was more obvious than it turned Read More...
Posted 02 March 09 03:49 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Project Life Cycles at patterns & practices
Periodically I like to revisit our project life cycle in patterns & practices. I like to see how it's shape-shifted over the years. (Note - our project life cycle wraps our product cycle) patterns & practices Project Life Cycle Circa 2005 Here's Read More...
Posted 03 August 08 04:21 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Software Guidance Share
I'm testing another version of the home page on Software Guidance Share . Software Guidance Share is a perpetual work in progress. I think of it as my quick-and-dirty guidance KB for developers and solution architects. I continuously refactor information Read More...
Posted 12 July 08 09:19 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Guidance Share Sweep
One of the most important things I did while I was on vacation was sweeping Guidance Share . Guidance Share is where I consolidate my body of software engineering guidance and test user experiences. I redesigned the home page for simpler browsing and Read More...
Posted 02 January 08 03:48 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Predictions for 2008
Here's a quick rundown of my take on key trends. Trends are different from fads since they're longer-lasting and more pervasive. I don't have a crystal ball or a magic 8-ball, but I have 20/20 hindsight with the customers I work with and an eye for patterns. Read More...
Posted 02 January 08 03:40 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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Four Stages of Market Maturity
You can tell the maturity of a market by the consumer patterns. If you know the life cycle stages of a market you can better anticipate what level of "needs" your product needs to match to be successful. (I always think of needs in stages like Maslow's Read More...
Posted 31 December 07 11:28 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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Human Shepherds and the Law of Relevancy
Yesterday, Ed helped me word a "law" that I use for important decisions and that I see show up quite a bit in a number of places. It's the law of human relevancy. The Law of Relevancy No matter how relevant the information is, it's more relevant with Read More...
Posted 10 November 07 08:14 by J.D. Meier | 2 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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Scenario Frames for Team Foundation Server
Our Scenario Frames for Team Foundation Server are available on CodePlex. We have Scenario Frames for the following: Build Project Management Reporting Source Control We use scenario frames for several things: Mapping out the problem space Performing Read More...
Posted 10 September 07 07:52 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Security Inspections
Inspections are among my favorite tools for improving security. I like them because they’re so effective and efficient. Here’s why: If you know what to look for, you have a better chance of finding it. (The reverse is also true: if you don’t know what Read More...
Posted 16 July 07 07:46 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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