posted on Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:02 PM
by
Benjy
Conchango Blogs and the MS Architects Forum
I attended the Microsoft Architects Forum in London last month. (Since I was officially on hols I didnt get round to writing up my notes and blogging about it, but I will do so shortly). It was on Software Tools and Methods and was quite brilliant. I found the presentations by folks from Conchango and Tesco very informative, especially being a newbie to the Agile Methodology world. I think Im beginning to see the light. It was even more interesting to realize that Agile and XP are not the same and that XP is only one of the variants under the Agile umbrella. I like the longer iterations of Scrum, in theory, more. [When I actually start using it, I'll be able to post more raves and rants on the same].
James Simmonds of Conchango has some good stuff on his blog. I really like the one on Scrum Sprint Best Practices. Howard Van Rooijen has also put up his slide deck replete with notes and its very nicely done. Havent had time to read more of the other blogs but Im sure they would be good.
I also had good conversations with Aravindra Sehmi about the Enterprise Library and with Michael Platt about the Architect Certification that he had blogged on some time ago. Need to ping Aravindra and Clemens to find out whether Proseware will be released publicly like ShadowFax.