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Now Available: Final PDF of the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition
A final PDF is now available for our patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide, second edition.  This is our platform playbook for the Microsoft application platform. Here are the relevant links: HTML version of Microsoft Application Read More...
Posted 24 November 09 07:51 by J.D. Meier | 5 Comments   
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Patterns and Practices for Distributed Teams
This post is a summary of my lessons learned from leading distributed teams.  I've managed distributed project teams since 2001, spanning the UK, Argentina, India, and other parts of the world.  While I preferred having everybody together on Read More...
Posted 23 November 09 06:06 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book
The Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd edition, is now available on Amazon and should be available on the shelf at your local bookstores soon. The PDF was downloaded ~180,000 times. This is the Microsoft platform playbook for application architecture. Read More...
Posted 05 November 09 06:58 by J.D. Meier | 12 Comments   
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10 Years at patterns & practices
I never imagined I would invest 10 years on the patterns & practices team at Microsoft.  Life is short and I always imagined I would spend it across so many more adventures.  What surprised me is how much you can grow yourself, and grow Read More...
Posted 02 October 09 07:56 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Security Mental Model for Azure
We’ve been exploring Azure on the patterns & practices team for potential security guidance.   To get our heads around it, we’ve had to create a simple view for our team that we could quickly whiteboard or drill into.  We wanted a way Read More...
Posted 17 September 09 12:04 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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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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The Power of Patterns and Practices
I wrote a post, The Power of Patterns and Practices , on Sources of Insight to summarize some of the benefits of using patterns and practices as a way to organize and share knowledge.  For simplicity, I think of patterns as a way to share problem Read More...
Posted 14 September 09 07:55 by J.D. Meier | 6 Comments   
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Sources of Insight is One Year Old
It was a year ago today that I wrote my first post on Sources of Insight , where I focus on patterns and practices for effectiveness and skilled living.   I wrote up my learnings and highlights in my post, Sources of Insight is One Year Old Read More...
Posted 01 September 09 09:20 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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Time Management Quotes
Time management is a key skill for work and life.  I’ve posted my collection of Time Management Quotes on Sources of Insight .   While organizing my collection of quotes, I got clarity on a handful of lessons for time management: Time is Read More...
Posted 24 August 09 10:21 by J.D. Meier | 12 Comments   
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Cloud Security Frame
I posted a draft of our Cloud Security Frame at Shaping Software .  This frame is especially important because we’re using it to help us map out the Cloud security space for our patterns & practices Cloud Security Guidance project.  It’s Read More...
Posted 20 August 09 01:45 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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What’s Your Favorite Thinking Technique?
Have you thought about your default thinking patterns?   I wrote a post on 3 Thinking Techniques to Improve Your Intellectual Horsepower at Sources of Insight .    I use these 3 techniques fairly regularly.  If you think Read More...
Posted 19 August 09 04:28 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Cloud Security Survey Results
As a follow up to our earlier patterns & practices Cloud Security Survey , here is a quick summary of the results.  Note that the the bulk of our respondents said they spend most of their time in architect roles.  The next biggest buckets Read More...
Posted 18 August 09 03:08 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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Communication Isn’t the Only Source of Conflict
I wrote a post on how Poor Communication isn’t the Source of Most Conflicts at Sources of Insight .  The gist is this: rather than blame communication as the source of conflict, explore other sources as well.  For example, conflict can also Read More...
Posted 12 August 09 05:09 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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patterns & practices Assets Survey
If you take our patterns & practices satisfaction survey , you can let us know which patterns & practices assets you use and how satisfied you are with the assets, as well as how satisfied you are with overall patterns & practices results.  Read More...
Posted 07 August 09 07:11 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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A Language for Your Strengths
I wrote a post on A Language for Strengths on Sources of Insight .  It's my attempt to consolidate and share the best information I've found for learning and talking about strengths and talents.  I'm a big believer in focusing on your strengths.  Read More...
Posted 07 August 09 07:39 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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