Okay, Day 1 at NZ Microsoft TechEd 2006. I'm presenting day 3 at 3.45pm on the following topic:
"How to get your Grandmother building missile defense systems".
Great title, but what does it really mean? So the abstract is as follows:
How do you create the conditions where moderately skilled developers can build high quality software?
Join Lukas Svoboda as he examines several case studies at Microsoft Gold-Certified Partner Optimation where they built and consulted on high quality, self-sufficient software architectures that could adapt to changes in staff, requirements, and budget.
Lukas shares what Optimation learnt, and explains how they approach projects using tools and techniques such as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio 2005, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and the Microsoft Software Factory initiative.
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In addition to this I'm going to extend the concept of "Grandma" to more than just moderately skilled developers - I'm going to talk about aligning your whole approach to technology and making sure both ends support each other. So the grandma concept extends to everyone involved in the software project right from your business stakeholder through to your architects, developers and testers. I'll finish up with recent and emerging MS technology that supports gets things done better and then close with some case studies from the past year.
Hopefully my philosophical thinking should be useful information for people who are stuck trying to get meaningful software development while finding their way through all the new MS Technology.