New Team System Stuff - 2004-10-25

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10/25/2004

Update - New MSF Agile Prerelease Available

As posted elsewhere on my blog (New to Me:
MSF Agile - Updated on GotDotNet), an updated prerelease version of MSF
Agile is available on GotDotNet:

https://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/msfv4

Update 2 - We had to go back to the original version of MSF
Agile while we investigate some bugs that may hinder evaluation of the most
recent release.

OOPSLA

Microsoft has a contingent heading north of the border to Vancouver, British
Columbia this week for the 19th Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (aka OOPSLA).

To see what Microsoft is doing at OOPSLA, be sure to visit:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/community/events/oopsla2004/

Check out these blog posts for more information:

Coad Method's Contribution to Agile

Learn more about Feature-Driven Development (FDD) and understand how it is
" ...perhaps the first example of a domain model-driven agile process"
in this post from David
Anderson (Getting
Back to FDD's Roots).

Gareth's Whiteboard - Part 3

Gareth Jones continues his series
(On
distributing my office whiteboard & On coloured
pens) on sharing his 'whiteboard' (Red is for
tomatoes, green is for peppers, blue is for ... giraffes?) and how to
translate his pretty pictures into something machine readable, especially when
the model is not limited to any one domain.

SOA Applied

Here's an interesting use of SOA - database replication. Check out this post
from Nick Malik (Using
Service Oriented Architecture concepts for database replication).

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