Dave Froslie - Microsoft Development on the Prairie
Back in a Rhythm…. Sort of
Since my overall team changed divisions last fall and my feature team took on a new area , it’s been...
Author: David Froslie Date: 05/01/2006
Opening Day!
The Major League Baseball season is finally underway!! This never used to be a major event in my...
Author: David Froslie Date: 04/04/2006
Fourth Graders – the Ultimate Challenge in Self Managed Teams!
I’ve posted multiple times about the importance of self managed teams in Scrum, including my last...
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/31/2006
Initiating Scrum from the Top Down
Scrum continues to gain traction within Microsoft. While it initially started with a grassroots...
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/15/2006
A Modification Taxonomy for Application Customization
Customization is a very broad topic. One thing that our predecessors working on MBF Customization...
Author: David Froslie Date: 02/27/2006
Results - Engineering Competition #2 – Tower Building
We spent two hours last night destroying what many of us spent many hours building for Engineering...
Author: David Froslie Date: 02/17/2006
We're collecting this metric - what should we do with it???
Have you ever found yourself collecting information on your process, but are unsure exactly what to...
Author: David Froslie Date: 02/10/2006
Engineering Competition #2 - Tower Building
It’s that time of year again. My co-worker, Michael, has once again concocted a mid-winter...
Author: David Froslie Date: 02/10/2006
Custom Fit, Upgrade Safe, Software at Off-the-shelf Prices
The title of this post seems so obvious, yet also seems like the Holy Grail. Why should it be so...
Author: David Froslie Date: 01/25/2006
The Scrum Tool Debate
Over the last week or so there has been a long lived thread on the Yahoo Scrum Discussion Group...
Author: David Froslie Date: 12/15/2005
Dynamics Tools
A while back, I posted about the demise of the Microsoft Business Framework and our team’s move back...
Author: David Froslie Date: 12/15/2005
Winter has begun - day 2
I would be remiss if I did not follow up yesterday's post with an update on the first winter storm...
Author: David Froslie Date: 11/29/2005
It's official.... winter has begun!
I heeded the advice of the weathermen who advised no travel today and didn't go into the office. We...
Author: David Froslie Date: 11/28/2005
Software as a Cooperative Game
I was reminded this afternoon of one my favorite ways of thinking about software development, that...
Author: David Froslie Date: 11/23/2005
Will Doug have more time to play hoops now???
If you haven't heard about it, Doug Burgum is stepping aside as the leader of the Microsoft Business...
Author: David Froslie Date: 11/18/2005
Scrum at Microsoft Article in eWeek
Last week, eWeek published an article titled Microsoft Lauds 'Scrum' Method for Software Project....
Author: David Froslie Date: 11/16/2005
The Military Analogy for Agile Project Management
When I first heard the analogy between what happens in the military with what we want to do from an...
Author: David Froslie Date: 11/10/2005
Is Scrum Helping?
I am leaving on a trip to visit our office in Copenhagen tomorrow. One of my goals is to visit with...
Author: David Froslie Date: 11/04/2005
MBF - Where have you gone?
It is with mixed emotions that I pass along new information regarding the state of the Microsoft...
Author: David Froslie Date: 10/24/2005
Planning Poker
At the Agile 2005 conference, I attended a session given by Mike Cohn on Release and Iteration...
Author: David Froslie Date: 09/30/2005
Agile Challenges - Big and Small
I had the opportunity this week to spend a couple of hours talking about agile processes with...
Author: David Froslie Date: 09/16/2005
Technical Debt
One concept that I heard frequently at Agile 2005 was Technical Debt (see definition). Ward...
Author: David Froslie Date: 08/19/2005
Agile 2005 - Day Three Recap
Mike Cohn’s session on Release and Iteration Planning was the session that I was looking forward to...
Author: David Froslie Date: 07/28/2005
Agile 2005 - Day Two Recap
Day 2 at Agile 2005 was another good day. It was capped with a Rockies game and some play time at...
Author: David Froslie Date: 07/28/2005
Agile 2005 - Day One Recap
My first day at Agile 2005 was a good one! I attended the morning keynote delivered by Brian Marick...
Author: David Froslie Date: 07/25/2005
Sprint Retrospectives
One of the biggest benefits of Scrum is the empirical nature of it. From the perspective of...
Author: David Froslie Date: 06/10/2005
A Software Engineering Culture
I had the privilege of participating in a presentation discussing some of the MBF engineering and...
Author: David Froslie Date: 06/03/2005
My Tablet PC
As I write this, I am in the air somewhere over Wyoming (or some other desolate location with...
Author: David Froslie Date: 05/31/2005
In Person Collaboration
One aspect of our process that is more on the Plan Driven end of our Agile / Plan Driven scale (see...
Author: David Froslie Date: 05/13/2005
Update on MBF
The Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) General Manager, Darren Laybourn, was recently interviewed by...
Author: David Froslie Date: 05/02/2005
Scrum Teams 'Out of the Flow'
As a result of my post on Scrum Teams that are “In the Flow”, I’ve had some conversations about...
Author: David Froslie Date: 04/28/2005
Agile AND Plan Driven
In Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner...
Author: David Froslie Date: 04/20/2005
Scrum Teams 'In the Flow'
One of the things that I really enjoy is playing basketball. There are multiple morning and noon...
Author: David Froslie Date: 04/13/2005
One Hour of Pair Programming
I am taking a two day course this week on Unit Testing, Test Driven Development, and Refactoring put...
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/28/2005
Scrum @ Microsoft Meeting
I spent last week out in Redmond visiting Microsoft headquarters. I usually make it out a couple...
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/28/2005
Daily Meeting
The concept of the Scrum Daily Meeting is really quite simple. All that each person needs to do is...
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/22/2005
Setting Sprint Goals
Setting Sprint Goals My DevDiv counterpart, Chris Flaat, recently had a post on their Sprint 5...
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/16/2005
Bridge Building and Software Development
In my last post, I told you about Archie – my bridge for the bridge building contest tomorrow night....
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/07/2005
Archie
It’s time for Archie to come out of the closet, …. err, workshop. Who is Archie? Archie is the name...
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/07/2005
Bridge Building
One of my co-workers decided to have a bridge building contest. Why, you might ask? I’m not exactly...
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/02/2005
Sprint Length
When we started with Scrum a year ago, we decided that our sprints should work on the calendar...
Author: David Froslie Date: 03/02/2005
DrinkUp
In my last post on Multi Team Sprint Reviews, I forgot to mention one very important part of our...
Author: David Froslie Date: 02/24/2005
Multi-team Sprint Reviews
At any given time, we have 4 to 8 active Scrum teams working in our MBF-Fargo team. The size of each...
Author: David Froslie Date: 02/22/2005
Bug Burndown
We are currently in the end game for one of our internal development milestones. We completed...
Author: David Froslie Date: 02/17/2005