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Recorded Presentation of Ivar's talk at TechEd

Listen to Ivar's presentation at TechEd In Orlando in June 2007 - Practice-Centric Software Development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

Abstract of the presentation:

Today there are many methods, processes, techniques, etc. that attempt to help project teams conduct their work. While there are indeed some important differences between them, the commonalities are far greater: the end goal is for all of us to get working software. Thus adopting complete processes does not make practical sense. Instead the focus should be on the ability to mix and match ideas from many different sources inside or outside our own world and compose these ideas to get a better way to work. Over the years we have more and more come to realize that these separate ideas are well represented by practices. Practices are first class citizens; process is just a composition of practices. Practices are to software development teams what use cases are to software systems: they have a beginning and an end and they provide identifiable values to the stakeholders. Practices come from individuals from different camps around the world, such as from the agile camp or the process improvement camp. In this session, gain an understanding of a practice-centric view of software development, as and how that relates to developing software using .NET applications. We examine the core essential practices that are critical to success and how these can be created using templates within Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

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