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Agile Performance Engineering

In this post, I’ll share the model we used successfully for years in Microsoft patterns & practices to bake performance into an Agile Life Cycle. One of the key challenges with building software, is how to bake quality into your process.  Some teams try to do it all up front.  Some try to do it …

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Agile Content Development

When I ramp new folks on the team, I find it helpful to whiteboard how I build prescriptive guidance.  Agile Content Life-Cycle Here’s a rough picture of the process Examples I’ve used the same process, leading virtual teams of 15+, for creating he following “Blue Books” for Microsoft: Building Secure ASP.NET Applications Guide Improving .NET …

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Agile Life-Cycle Frame

As a program manager, it’s tough to shape a process with the team, if the team can’t “see” it.  When you have a mental model you can share with the team, things move a lot faster.   The problem with life cycles and end-to-end processes, is that people don’t usually know what the end-to-end actually looks …

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Are You Used to Delivering Daily and Responding to Change?

Are you used to delivering working software on a daily basis and changing the software in response to emerging requirements? That’s a pretty good question, and timeless, too. I remember several years ago, when a vendor asked me that, and I remember laughing and thinking, “yeah, that’s what we try to show other people how …

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How To Prioritize with 100 Points

A simple way to prioritize your backlog is to use “100 Points.” Give each person prioritizing 100 points to spend. Here is an example. In this case, here is a sample backlog The backlog had more than 100 stories.  You can suggest priorities for these items as well as suggest up to 3 new stories.  …

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