"Recharging Motivation Battery"

I want to be sure to get a blog post on this out as long as the impression is still fresh. Currently I am in Seattle at our so called Microsoft TechReady7. TechReady is a Microsoft internal conference that gives us the chance to hear directly from all product groups what innovation will be coming the next year(s).

TechReady beats everything I had seen before, and it is already my 2nd TechReady. This is a great effort Microsoft is doing for its employees. We have more then 5500 attendees being here at Seattle the whole week. Every day is filled up with sessions of different kinds. To give you an idea: We have around 850 sessions plus more then 350 labs. And content is delivered by more then 1200 speakers. As we are in Seattle just a bunch of miles away from Redmond we really get in the speakers who are responsible for product development and can directly get newest information, see latest builds (last night :-) ) and give field direct feedback.

This is a huge and super-super amazing conference that gives us  the additional possibility to network with colleagues worldwide. Have you ever had breakfast with a couple of thousand colleagues ? I did and this is impressing.

Seattle normally known as rainy showed up from its best side and I had the chance to even get a bit of sightseeing on Saturday:

To sum up here you really gain motivation and new energy when seeing what is coming up in the Team System space. Besides meeting all the folks driving the product is a real opportunity to give feedback directly from our customers to product group.

You should be really curios to see the next CTP we plan in fall. I will let you know when this one will be available. Additionally I want to encourage you to follow PDC coverage as there we will be lifting off a bit more of what is to come.