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Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:01 AM

CodePlex Blog

As a follow-up to yesterday's post, the CodePlex has its own blog . Of course, a number of the team members have their own blogs, which are linked to from the CodePlex blog.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:27 PM

CodePlex is Live

According to Brad , who recently joined the CodePlex team, they have gone live. This is fantastic. These guys have done a lot of great work (with more ahead). If I were doing an open source project, I'd be using CodePlex.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:11 PM

Agile Game Development

Now this is an interesting article on applying agile development in a part of the industry that has not historically been agile. It also covers the basics principles of agile development and has a short overview of Scrum.
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Monday, June 26, 2006 12:54 PM

FIT, DSLs, and test engines

Peter has a few thoughts about Ward Cunningham's FIT (Framework for Integrated Tests). He encapsulates the ideas behind FIT very well. This post (and some of the challenges I had getting FIT to work in a complex problem domain) raises a few ideas, thoughts,
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Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:36 PM

How do you keep your daily stand-up on track?

This question came up recently, "How do you keep your daily stand-up on track?" I answered by sharing what worked for me. The way teams I have been on (and teams I have helped coach) kept things tracking was we agreed to the rules: Everyone must answer
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Saturday, June 17, 2006 9:20 AM

The Need for Cultural Change when Adopting Agile

Peter has a great post that sums up a number of conversations with agilists around Microsoft. I agree with everything he says. The hardest thing I had to do, in the words of Mitch Lacey , was "take my brain out, turn it around 180 degrees, put it back
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:01 PM

Talking about Agile

Part of what I do as a developer in patterns & practices is evangelize agile software development within Microsoft. In the past month, I have done five or six different talks. Most of these talks were with a small team that is piloting the adoption
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:24 PM

Test Driven Development is Good

Last week, I was able to speak at the Engineering Excellence / Trustworthy Computing Forum, which is a Microsoft internal conference focused on writing better software. Some talks discuss experiences using new methodologies. Others focus on new tools
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:20 PM

Yipes. Things are crazy.

Wow. Things have been crazy recently (and they still are). Between ramping up on how things work in p&p, giving talks to other groups on Agile, working with product teams to see how their new products impact the guidance offered by p&p, and helping
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:52 PM

Bill Gates to shift priorities.

MSNBC has an article on a fairly big leadership change at Microsoft . I'm sure that this will cause a few ripples across the company and the industry. And I'm glad that Bill will be doing more with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. [Edit: Here
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Friday, June 09, 2006 1:16 PM

Developer Site for Live.com Beta Launch

If you are interested in developing for the Windows Live Platform, check out http://dev.live.com . Ken Levy points out the launch in his blog . [Edit: Changed title to appear properly in a few rss readers]
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