Ramblings of a Microsoft.com PM : Development Methodologies

Documentation in an agile world ... how much is enough, and how do you decide?

Jim Scardelis — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:15:00 GMT

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)

Changes... (been busy)

Jim Scardelis — Tue, 30 May 2006 08:34:00 GMT

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)

Development methodologies & microsoft.com development teams

Jim Scardelis — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:40:00 GMT

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)

MSCOM Release Checklists..

Jim Scardelis — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:27:00 GMT

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)

Agile?

Jim Scardelis — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:47:00 GMT

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)