MSDN Chat - April 9th- March 21, 2008 Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions for Visual Studio 2008. Add to Calendar April 9, 200810:00 A.M. Pacific Time Additional Time Zoneshttp://blogs.msdn.com/drwill/archive/2008/03/21/msdn-chat-april-9th.aspx Talking To Customers- March 21, 2008 At Microsoft, we have developers and testers. Those two disciplines make up the traditional engineering roles that most companies have. Where we seem to differ the most is in the project management and feature design role. Some companies call them business analysts. We call them program managers. From group to group at Microsoft, the role varies however. It's not surprising when we have hundreds of different groups and needs in each group. Some PMs are UI...http://blogs.msdn.com/drwill/archive/2008/03/20/talking-to-customers.aspx Web Test Variables- March 5, 2008 A customer emailed me today with a follow up question. The original question was about web tests recording AJAX-style client side scripting which initiates server queries. In VS2005 we didn't record those requests and our work around was to use Fiddler2 to record the scripts. In VS2008 we fixed that which is great for customers because it's much easier to record the web test file directly rather than having to switch to another tool. No offense to the author of Fiddler2. .http://blogs.msdn.com/drwill/archive/2008/03/05/web-test-variables.aspx Ellen- March 5, 2008 Have you heard about Mort, Elvis, and Einstein No, no... I mean in context of Visual Studio. :) We use these 3 personas to help guide feature development. I did a search for these names to see what has already been published. MS employees have already blogged about the personas, and some critics have come out against them. A brief review of some of the criticism seems to be based on a misunderstanding of them and how they are used. I'm not writing this to defend...http://blogs.msdn.com/drwill/archive/2008/03/05/ellen.aspx Customers- March 2, 2008 In the three years I've been working in the Developer Division at Microsoft, I've been impressed with the focus our divisional leaders have placed on customer focus. The benefit to customers is obvious. We're responsive to your concerns and it helps us build a product that better meets your needs. It also benefits us a lot too! We have specific customer feedback to drive decisions in feature development. A lot of it is anecdotal, but still very, very valuable. I wanted...http://blogs.msdn.com/drwill/archive/2008/03/02/customers.aspx |