April 2007 - Posts

• Work breakdown at MS

  I love this article and how it describes work breakdown at MS.  I have been looking for it the past couple of days and couldn’t believe that I didn’t have it shared or blogged about anywhere.  I love the work breakdown ideas migrating customer value to experiences to actual features that attempt to deliver the value.  We use different terms on my development team, but the concept is the same.  I also love the visualization that is given with the project dashboard at the bottom.  That is one of the things that keeps me sold on TFS – the ability to communicate up and down the management chain off the same data store without tons of overhead to grab and record point in time status, but instead deliver real-time status updates of how product development is going.   http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/archive/2007/01/15/internal-tfs-usage-high-level-visbility.aspx     Posted Apr 30 2007, 06:32 PM by Bryan Hinton's space: Technology

• Giving Microsoft Dev Division their props

  I have been meaning to blog on this for a days now - today I decided to stop procrastinating.  Most have by now seen the news about MS buying TeamPlain to add a web interface to Team Foundation Server.  What a great move!  I was talking to Steven Borg from Accentient a little over a month ago about this very thing - when I heard the news I was pumped.   This fills a major gap in the product and will at least here at Intel help us foster adoption of Team Foundation Server.  We now have a corporate instance available for people to start to leverage - the next step for us is to make sure people are educated on how to take full advantage of TFS's features.   The publishing of the Team System roadmap was very cool as well - Rosario hasn't been a secret as Mary Foley and others disclosed the codename for the VSTS post-Orcas release, but it is nice to have it out there so that we can "officially" talk about it.  The stuff I have seen related to it looks very exciting and promising and I can't wait to see some bits out there - but I suppose we should wait for Orcas first.  Orcas has some great stuff as well - LINQ looks awesome (I have played with it just a little bit) and the CI stuff coming from TeamBuild will be nice as well.   Oh and I am excited to hit Islands of Adventure at Tech Ed this year as well (I am sure the sessions will be good as well!).     Technorati tags: vsts, teamplain, tfs, teched, teched 2007 Posted Apr 10 2007, 09:57 AM by Bryan Hinton's space: Technology

• My link blog

  On my Spaces site to the left of my blog I am syndicating my link blog from Google Reader - I love that feature that they allow me to mark items as "Shared" and there is a public site for it as well as an RSS feed - very, very cool feature.  It has reduced the need for me to do a link parade or party like in the past because I just share it from Google Reader - I love Google Reader by the way.  I track about 160 plus feeds these days and push out the interesting stuff to my link blog so subscribe to it there is tons of good stuff in there!     Technorati tags: Google Reader Posted Apr 10 2007, 09:34 AM by Bryan Hinton's space: Technology

• Agile Journal - High Performance Agile Teams: An Overview of Collaboration

  In particular I liked the case study - not sure that I have always seen that be the case in my own organization - but it is a reminder for those smart guys out there - that you can be as smart as you want, but if the next guy is as well and you try to take your smart thing and his smart thing and put them together they just may make you look dumb because many times they don't work together.  Communication/Collaboration is king! Link to Agile Journal - High Performance Agile Teams: An Overview of Collaboration     Technorati tags: Agile Posted Apr 10 2007, 09:31 AM by Bryan Hinton's space: Technology