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Monday, July 31, 2006 1:22 PM

Agile 2006 Follow-up

The conference was good. The weather was way too hot, but that is another issue entirely. I attended a number of good sessions and a few dull ones. There was not really anything in the middle. There was also not a lot in the middle as far as experience.
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Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:32 AM

Sandcastle CTP released

I have been using Sandcastle internally for years at Microsoft. It has helped automate API documentation for internal tool frameworks, helped the test teams I have worked with understand things a bit better, and required me to comment my code a little
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:01 PM

Follow-up on the new space

A while back, I posted about the space the patterns & practices team built in collaboration with the Workplace Advantage folks ( here and here ). Today, two articles by others were brought to my attention, and I'd like to talk about them. First, Adam
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:03 PM

Agile 2006 is great.

I've been in Minneapolis attending the Agile 2006 conference since Sunday. Things have been going quite well. I've enjoyed a number of talks, tutorials, experience reports, and research papers. Some of the talks were not as good as I would have liked,
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:55 PM

Neat Site: On10.Net

Check out http://www.on10.net . They have been in beta for months and recently went live with version 1.0 .
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Monday, July 17, 2006 9:21 AM

Another Agile blog at Microsoft

I know that there a quite a few agilists at Microsoft. In my reading over the weekend, I saw this blog ( Only Passionate People Win ) by Young Joo, and I had to comment. Here are a few of his posts on agile topics with my comments: Abusing Agile Amen.
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Monday, July 10, 2006 3:15 PM

Bad Agile Definitions

A friend of mine (John Boal) has created a site ( The Committee for UN-SCRUM Activities ) where he has the ultimate bad definition for the term "Agile": Agile 1. The ability to use popular buzzwords like "sprint" and "scrum" without having to really change
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:02 AM

Recent Releases

The patterns & practices team has just released a few things. Here is the list (and where I first saw the posts) Smart Client Software Factory (posted by Brad and Peter ) Guidance Automation Extensions and Toolkit Community Release (thanks Peter )
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