Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:43 PM
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YAG
CodePlex Development Process
One of the questions I got asked in the interviews I discuss below was whether we used agile methods and how things worked. Brad, from the CodePlex team, has a great post with an introduction to their process.
One sample paragraph:
On the team, our process is very similar to eXtreme Programming (despite Microsoft's current infatuation with Scrum, we are still doing an XP-style planning game). The team has been running one week iterations for more than a year, with our PM George now leading both the iteration planning and stand-up meetings. Now that we have launched the site, we plan for frequent releases of the software (our plans right now are roughly every three weeks, to ensure that we have given each release adequate regression testing and stabilization time).
Check it out!
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About YAG
Yair Alan Griver is the architect for the Microsoft.com community properties. As architect, he is responsible for creating a coherent underlying platform for properties that include blogs.msdn.com, forums.msdn.com, GotDotNet, chats and CodePlex. In addition to MSCOM architect, Alan is also responsible for the continued development of Visual FoxPro. Prior to the architect role, Alan was Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produced the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into Visual Basic .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was Chief Information Officer at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecommunications (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company.
Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.
