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MS Pattern & Practices New Lab
Tommy Norman's Blog	By TommyNorman on 4/20/2007 10:03 PM

Channel 9 has a very cool video (http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=238321)that takes you on a tour of their Patterns and Practices new million dollar lab that has been specifically built to facilitate Agile type development. While I am not a huge Agile fan, I was definitely impressed with the thought that was obviously but into designing their facility to help their development teams write better software faster. I lean more to a hybrid SDLC approach that is somewhere in the middle of Agile and traditional waterfall methodologies. But some of the ideas express in the video were very appealing not matter what flavor you prefer. I am a big fan of team development. I hate to sit in a cube all day banging away on my keyboard talking to myself. In my past projects where our development team was sequestered together are some of the best experiences I have had in my ca ...

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devLink 2007
John Kellar's Blog	By jckellar on 2/23/2007

So we are working on devLink 2007 and I think everyone will be pleasantly surprised. We are going to have it October 12-13 and will be adding new content this year. We want to appeal to the entire development team so that means we are going to have some Project management, Business Analysis and related information included in this years conference. Don't worry we are not going to abandon the development side there will be plenty of .NET and SQL Server information available. We also want to bring Java into the mix as we are not single minded. So if you know of a great speaker or a company that might be interested in supporting devLink send them to the website www.devlink.net because we would love to talk to them.

Throwing Bodies at the Problem
Tommy Norman's Blog	By TommyNorman on 12/28/2006 1:09 AM

It is not necessarily a technical issue but many technical projects sometimes suffer from a project team that is too large. It usually happens when management has decided on a delivery date that cannot be met with the current amount of manpower and for some reason it is more logical to them to add more developers than to move the date. Realistically there are valid times when a date cannot move, but merely adding more developers usually gets to a point of diminished return rather quickly. A good friend of mine was fond of saying “You can't get nine women and make a baby in a month.” Take the situation where y ...

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