Sam Newman posted this diagram which describes The Agile Release Process
The process described in the diagram above is more or less the approach we currently take. However we also have an integration test phase to test (some of) our builds against a third-party codeline(s).
With Visual Studio 2005 Team System almost all of the necessary elements to adopt this agile mindset are present. While digging into VSTS 2005 I must admit it's - so far - a great experience to control all these software lifecycle aspects from within one environment. There's so much to discover in VSTS 2005. I can only recommend to give it a try yourself!
[Via Joel Ross] Mike Roberts over at Thoughtworks is blogging about setting up a .NET Development Tree. So far, it's a seven part series.
Topics covered:
Excellent series of posts!
[Via Clarke Ching] A new online book: “Emergent design – the evolutionary nature of professional software development” by Scott L. Bain.
This Emergent Design book is a work in progress in which you can participate. Rather than having contributions from readers only serve to spawn and inform a Second Edition, readers can make comments, suggestions, expose errata, ask and answer questions, in short, provide the essential feedback necessary to produce a better book, before the book is committed to paper.
Provide your feedback to the published chapters here.