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• Our Agile Project Goes into Ship/Performance Mode

  So, I have been writing a bunch of posts over the last 14 months, how we have been using Agile, actually full Extreme Programming practices to build a multi-million dollar Enterprise Software platform and application for the banking sector. We certainly have seriously stressed Extreme Programming/Agile techniques to their limits as this is not a small piece of software, but a large Enterprise solution that gets sold into the top banks in the world. We certainly have proven that you can use Extreme Programming/Agile techniques to build a 1.8 million dollar Enterprise product family. have talked about being an Agile Architect and why it's neccessary, how we went to CTP in July , the Process we use, our tools , and even our failings . So, after 48 Iterations we finished all the functionality we had agreed with Business was necessary for a "Phase I" delivery of our Next Generation/V5.0 product, as our Next Generation architecture will span an ambitious set of goals and products on top of this platform. Business and Development agreed together that we would stop and start a three week Iteration of fixing bugs in our backlog, testing and eating our dog food. In Extreme Programming, you are really not supposed to carry over bugs out of the Iteration but this was extremely hard with one week Iterations. We turned out very well overall as all the testing found just over 100 total bugs for 14 months work which is an order of magnitude less bugs than our previous product development techniques. In addition, we have over 1,000 unit tests and the code is well factored, clean and maintanable. The best part is the whole team understands it, not individuals. I actually haven't written about it but I have been working as Agile Architect the last few months on the next phase and not as part of the Iterations directly. These involve a whole lot of Workflow, Reporting and much more. Anyhow, I made a stand with my management the last 3 weeks and insisted that I code and Read More... Posted Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:58 AM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: CLR, WCF/Indigo, Software Architecture, SOA, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, OR/M, Agile and Extreme Programming, Personal and Family (Non-Technical), Microsoft, C#, COM Interop, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, Extreme Programming, Agile Development, Smart Clients,  Agile, Workflow, WinForms,  Software Development

• New and Notable 129

  Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling the Synchronization Process LINQ and Family/CLR PLINQ, which I blogged about some time ago has surfaced again with this post from DonXML where he does some clever reading of Microsoft job posts! to make some educated speculations on the growing importance of Concurrency and Parallellism in the CLR as well as PLINQ . And yes, Don, "the cool kids [ALREADY] realize that WPF, WCF and WF are yesterday's news, and LINQ is where it is at ;)" Speaking of LINQ, see the XMLTeam blog for the announcement of the LINQ to XSD Preview and these links: Here is the link to the LINQ to XSD download . The LINQ to XSD overview document is available separately. You also need the LINQ download (May 2006 CTP) Here is the link to the LINQ to XSD download . The LINQ to XSD overview document is available separately. You also need the LINQ download (May 2006 CTP) Also from Joe Duffy, see Vista SRWLock acquires during shutdown Architecture Validation Application Block: Revealed! [via Mike ] Technorati Tags: Software Development , Software Architecture , WF , Workflow , BPM , LINQ , PLINQ , SOA , Windows Communication Foundation , WCF , CLR , Windows Vista , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:08 PM from Sam Gentile | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, CLR, Software Architecture, SOA, LINQ and OR/M, New and Notable, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, LINQ, Microsoft, .NET Framework 3/WinFX, Workflow, BizTalk Server,  Software Development, PLINQ,  WF, BPM