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New Team System Stuff - 2005-02-03

Visual Studio Team System

Peter Varhol, a Java Pro columnist, shares his thoughts on Team System in this post (Microsoft Team System Combines Established With New) on FTPOnline. I can’t say that I agree with everything he has to say about Team System, but I think the positives outweigh the negatives. You decide.
It sounds like Team System was well-received at Developer & IT Pro Days. See this post (Dev & IT Pro Days – Day 2) from Pieter Gheysens and this one (Dev & IT Pro days 2005) from Sven Cipido.
Mickey Gousset has a couple more posts as he continues to evaluate the December CTP release of Team System:

Architecture

After reading Chris Wensel’s proposal on stress-driven architecture (Stress Early, Stress Often), Gareth Jones wrote up his thoughts in this post (Stress-driven development).
Learn more about PatternShare in this post (PatternShare) from Harry Pierson.
Steve Cook recently spoke at the British Computer Society’s SPA Architecture Day. He has a post (Software Practice Advancement) with a link to more info & slides from sessions of interest.

Development

The transcripts from the Enterprise Developer and Test chats held in mid-January are available online:

Events

2/10 : Jon Box is presenting on Team System (Team Development and Software Quality) at TechExpo 2005 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
3/8–10 : The Canadian Strategic Architect Forum 2005 is being held at Microsoft in Redmond, WA in March. For more information, see this post (Canadian Strategic Architect Forum 2005) from Guy Barrette and this site (Canadian Strategic Architect Forum).
3/14–16 : patterns & practices Summit ~ United States – West Coast [via G. Andrew Duthie]
4/19–21 : patterns & practices Summit ~ Europe

Project Management

David Anderson blogs about “…a simple but powerful mechanism…” he’ll be using again (Test First Meeting Facilitation).
Chris Flaat is currently working on a project that’s employing scrum. Read about his experience in this post (Continued use of Scrum).
Ever hear of Maverick Development? Darrell Norton has a post (Maverick Development: an agile methodology) with more info.

Team Software Development

Testing

The Braidy Tester has a great post (Test Me) that talks about BVTs (Build Verification Tests).
Check out this Channel 9 video with Sara Ford talking about our test case management system, Maddog.

Steve Rowe recently took a Net Objectives class on TDD and shares his first impressions of it in this aptly titled post (TDD – First Impressions).