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Back from vacation... and a lot has happened in the last week

I took a week off, which was good. I visited family and spent time relaxing and playing video games. (Fallout3 rocks so far!!). I got back this morning to hundreds of emails to go through. After reading almost all of it, there were a few things that happened

Acceptance Testing Guide Community Preview 2 Available!

As I have mentioned before in a few posts ( Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance , Acceptance Testing Guidance Survey , and Acceptance Testing Guide Update ), I am working with a team on guidance around acceptance testing . We still have a lot of work

Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance

As I mentioned before ( Acceptance Testing Guidance , Grigori's Take on the Acceptance Testing Project ), I am working on guidance around acceptance testing with Grigori . We now have alive CodePlex site that we can work from: patterns & practices:

Acceptance Testing Guidance

On Monday, Grigori and I kicked off a new project: Acceptance Testing Guidance Actually, we kicked off a pre-project planning project. In two to three weeks, we need to decide if there is enough demand for guidance on acceptance testing to warrant a real

Data-mining for Code Quality Metrics

I spent two weeks between full time projects (still working on the 2 part time projects I am on) looking back at the build logs from the past 6 months (or so) trying to figure out what metrics we have, what we should track going forward, and what goals

"I need a new co-worker", or "p&p is Hiring"

Peter Provost left p&p a month or two ago*, and Ade Miller is now our Dev Lead. However, this leaves a gap in the dev team here at p&p, and leaves us with more work than people. If you are a strong developer and love doing agile development, apply

Front Page of the Seattle Times!

This morning, I was sitting in a local coffee shop, drinking a latte, and I checked my email on my phone since I was expecting a response from someone. In my inbox was an email from Keith Pleas (the organizer of the p&p Summit) that the Seattle Times

CNN Series on the Future of the Office

A few weeks ago, a film crew from CNN International visited Microsoft to do a segment on how Microsoft is looking at the workplace of the future ( Alan talked about it at the time ). They talked to the Workplace Advantage group, the team that helped patterns

Team Rooms Increase Productivity

Today, I saw two very interesting things. First, Peter pointed out that Channel 9 has a tour of the new p&p space . (I know that I have mentioned the space at least three times in the past, but I'm still excited about it. I'm excited not only by what
 
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