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Thursday, March 24, 2005 3:54 PM

SD Magazine Jolt Productivity Award 2005

Wow! We heard that our Software Factories book was awarded a “Productivity Award” in the General Books Category at the Software Development Magazine Jolt Awards last week. http://www.sdmagazine.com/pressroom/jolt_winners_2005.pdf This is a great honor,
Posted by Keith Short | 2 Comments
Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:45 AM

On Definitions

In Steve Cook’s interview, Steve gives a great one sentence definition of a Software Factory. I realize I should have provided a one sentence definition as part of my “elevator story” posted earlier. I was inspired by Steve’s statement to dig out an earlier
Posted by Keith Short | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:29 AM

Steve Cook on Software Factories and DSLs

Steve Cook , my colleague based in Cambridge , UK , has just posted a very interesting interview with journalist Matt Nicholson: http://dnjonline.com/article.aspx?ID=mar05_stevecook It comes complete with a rather fetching picture of Steve at his desk
Posted by Keith Short | 0 Comments
Tuesday, March 08, 2005 12:42 PM

Software Factory Elevator Story

To start the ball rolling, I thought I’d write down the Software Factory elevator story. People are always asking us “Can you please just quickly summarize what one is?” That’s right, boil down a 600 page book, and thousands of words in white papers and
Posted by Keith Short | 14 Comments
Monday, March 07, 2005 10:31 AM

Restarting My Blog

It’s been a long time since I wrote to my blog. This posting is my restart. One of the reasons I’ve been so quiet is that I’ve been involved in some start up projects here at Microsoft that we are not yet ready to blog about. These have taken quite a
Posted by Keith Short | 4 Comments
 
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