Randy Miller's Blog

Software Development on the Difficult Projects

A little over 20 years ago, I started working for the other large software development company. They...

Date: 12/17/2009

Shadow Architecture is method of communicating architecture to others on your agile team. The idea...

Date: 11/14/2009

In the mid-1990s, the prevailing trend in the industry was to begin a software development project...

Date: 11/05/2009

It has been five years since I joined Microsoft and started writing MSF. There are a couple of...

Date: 02/10/2009

For those of you who do not know - I have left the MSF team and joined the Project Recovery Team at...

Date: 06/27/2007

Discipline Product Management Role(s) Business Analyst Activity Write Scenario Description Short...

Date: 01/03/2007

Title: Managing your teams and business process using Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) as a...

Date: 11/27/2006

Yesterday, we released brand new versions of MSF for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI...

Date: 11/15/2006

A common question that I get is "What has changed in the latest version of MSF for Agile Software...

Date: 10/11/2006

There are newer versions (August 2006) of the MSF process guidance available for download. There has...

Date: 09/19/2006

Many of you have been looking for an updated version of MSFWinBuild. Sanjeev and his team have taken...

Date: 08/23/2006

I get many questions about writing scenarios, but writing scenarios in general is a four-step...

Date: 08/02/2006

There are so many advances on the MSF front that I wanted to take some time and document all that is...

Date: 05/04/2006

Activity: Divide Scenarios into Tasks Project Manager Plan an Iteration Task Participating Roles...

Date: 04/18/2006

It is pretty easy to change the process guidance for a new project but a common question that I get...

Date: 04/11/2006

The agile software development community is at a crossroads. On one hand, we have been told to use...

Date: 03/23/2006

The name 'Quality of Service Requirement' was suggested as alternative to 'nonfunctional...

Date: 11/28/2005

I was fortunate enough to attend TechEd Europe this summer and attend (instead of presenting) a...

Date: 07/10/2005

Agile software development is generally regarded as an activity geared for small projects. In fact,...

Date: 05/10/2005

The software development community has been looking for the silver bullet that will allow us all to...

Date: 03/18/2005