The day to day ramblings of Jim Scardelis, Release Manager turned Program Manager in Microsoft.com.
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Technical & General topics: http://jimscardelis.blogspot.com/ Wine, Food & Pacific Northwest fun: http://whiningaround.blogspot.com Thank you! Read More...
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Once in awhile, I get to work on something really cool that makes a difference for a bunch of folks. Most of the time, though, the effect is only really seen inside the company by the people that use our tools or processes. Today is one of those days Read More...
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Since I last posted about going to the Seattle Art Museum, I did decide to become more involved in the Microsoft Art Collection as an “Art Ambassador”. By doing so, I will play a liaison role between the Collection’s art department and the Microsoft community. Read More...
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One of the great things about living in a 'hip' metropolitan area is the plethora of art of all kinds that can be found just by looking around. For example, the city of Redmond has art installed in many interesting places -- even along some of the major Read More...
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Like many folks these days, my wife & I have a computer in the kitchen. Occasionally, there are files, like lists of stuff we have, that we need to access from various computers, whether from work, or just from our primary computers in our studies. Read More...
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It’s been a long time since I last blogged, mostly because late last Spring, I transitioned out of the Release Management role in Microsoft.com (now part of the Microsoft.com Operations Team) into a Program Management role in one of the software development Read More...
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This morning, I was looking through one of the stack of trade magazines that seems to find its way to my mailbox and read a very interesting article on software documentation that I wanted to share with you. In the article, (“ Documentation Strategies Read More...
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>After my post the other day referencing my article in TechNet Magazine, a few folks, such as Blake Handler inquired about my old pseudonym that I used to write books & magazine articles in during the late 1990's. (Boy, typing that sure does make Read More...
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I wrote an article for TechNet Magazine about Release Management at Microsoft.com. You might find it interesting. One curious factlet: Although I've written books and was a contributing editor for a magazine last century, I used a pen name back then, Read More...
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One of the projects I'm working on now is the family of systems that will become the new publishing & rendering system for at least the Microsoft.com Home Page. It's a really cool project that's pulled together a lot of the best people at Microsoft.com Read More...
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I've been kind of slow posting since a number of things have been in flux back at the office. Over the last few weeks: We had a re-org in the Microsoft.com space. Some of the chips haven't finished falling yet, I think, but essentially my team moved out Read More...
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There are a couple of variations on agile development methodologies in use in the groups that develop applications for Microsoft.com. Most groups utilize the old traditional Waterfall approach, which can be summarized as: Initiate the project -- Sell Read More...
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The MSCOM Ops team just put a good description of Operations interacts with our software development life cycle (SDLC) process up on their blog . It's a good read. Included therein are a couple of versions of the documents that my team uses to track the Read More...
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The use of Agile software development methodologies, such as MSF for Agile Development holds a lot of promise. However, 1st generation agile methodologies can be problematic when developing software for deployment in online systems, as they do not always Read More...
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Got a favorite setup / deployment tool? Tell me about it. Read More...
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