Randy Miller - MSF for Agile Software
Development and Visual Studio 2005 Team System This presentation will feature an update on the investments that Microsoft has been making in tools and process support of the Agile development methodology. Randy Miller, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio 2005 Team System development team, has been leading Microsoft's efforts in defining the next generation of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), specifically with incorporating two very concrete software development processes, "Formal" and "Agile" into the integrated development environment. This work is part of a massive project at Microsoft to increase productivity and predictability of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Randy will be speaking about a portion of this work, MSF Agile, and how Visual Studio 2005 Team System supports that framework. Randy Miller: Randy Miller (also known as Granville Miller) is author of Advanced Use Case Modeling and A Practical Guide to Extreme Programming. He has spoken at many national events including OOPSLA, Web Services Edge, Software Development West, Microsoft TechEd and others. He has also spoken for SPIN in the past (http://www.rtpspin.org). You can find out more about Randy's work from his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/randymiller. You can learn more about Visual Studio 2005 Team System at: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem. And specifically about its plans to support the Agile methodology at: http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/archive/2005/02/07/368599.aspx |