http://blogs.msdn.com/vsarch/archive/tags/Software+Factories/default.aspxTags: Software Factoriesen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/vsarch/archive/2007/05/11/software-factories-survey.aspxSat, 12 May 2007 00:10:17 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:2553148mgroves0http://blogs.msdn.com/vsarch/comments/2553148.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/vsarch/commentrss.aspx?PostID=2553148<p>Please help our friends out in p&amp;p by filling out the newest survey related to the software factories they have released over the last year:</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/donsmith/archive/2007/05/07/a-time-for-reflection-and-assessment.aspx">Don Smith : A time for reflection and assessment</a> </p> <blockquote> <p>Wow, it's hard to believe it has been almost a&nbsp;year since the patterns &amp; practices team released&nbsp;our first software factories.&nbsp;Remember when the early customer previews were called Baseline Architecture Toolkits? Oh, the nostalgia :) We could have had so much fun with the BAT acronym ... haha. <p>So that means now&nbsp;is a perfect time to take a quick assessment on how we're doing so far ... that's right, a survey. <strong>Now hold on a second!</strong> At least hear me out for the rest of the paragraph. I can't&nbsp;devulge too much detail yet, but some team in Microsoft might be in the middle of building some serious software factory infrastructure for a future version of Visual Studio - that's right, much better than GAX and DSL tools. Do you want it to suck? Do you think software factories are just a pipe dream and would rather they build something else? If you're thinking, "Oh no Don, I like software factories, especially the Service Factory (okay, I'm embellishing - haha)," then I would ask you to keep reading. I promise we've tried to optimize the survey to allow you the highest level of impact in the least amount of time possible. <p>Whew, you're still reading ... excellent! Okay, so you're only looking at 9 generic questions and 9 questions for each software factory you've evaluated/used. This survey covers the 4 factories released by p&amp;p (<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480534.aspx">web service</a>, <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx">smart client</a>, <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264518.aspx">web client</a>, and <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480471.aspx">mobile client</a>). The first 8 questions will take no more than a minute or two. The 9 questions for each factory shouldn't take more than 10 minutes each and you will only see the questions for the factories you choose. The last question is an anything-else-you-want-to-share question - you can take as long as you want on it. That's it ... super quick-n-easy. <p>Here is the URL you need to&nbsp;take the survey: <a href="http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2266YYVWSKP">http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2266YYVWSKP</a> <p>We're really looking forward to your feedback so&nbsp;we can help&nbsp;the future&nbsp;include some truly kick-ass factories.</p></blockquote><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2553148" width="1" height="1">Software Factories