Mike Diehl's WebLog

I am teaching Visual Studio Team System in France this week, and during the discussion that compares some of the different SDLC's that are in use, such as Waterfall, Unified Process, Scrum, Extreme Programming, V-model, MSF, and so on, one of my students made a point about Extreme Programming: because the developers work in pairs in XP, there exists a natural mechanism for training and mentoring.

I've been using the Dataset designer this week for a project we are building in ASP.NET using VS 2005.

Joel was on DotNetRocks, talking about Visual Studio Team System.

We're starting a small project for a new client, and of course, we're gathering the requirements for their solution before we dive into designing and developing it.

There's a new feature in Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) in the source code control area that I really like.

Joel has some good things to say about CMMI, in relation to Visual Studio Team System (VSTS).

I haven't had a chance to look at the new iteration of the MSF Agile process template for Visual Studio Team System, but I think I heard that there is a Risk work item type in it.

I'm finishing up two weeks of teaching the Ascend training on Visual Studio 2005 in Beijing China today.