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Today, I had the chance to attend the Microsoft Architect Forum at the campus in Redmond. The forum's agenda included a talk about Software Factories by Jack Greenfield, Visual Studio Team System, and a presentation about Connected Systems. The talks were good and provided little nuggets of interesting information.
I don't want to give an overview of the talks, but I will point out some interesting tidbits from the talks.
Software Factories - The idea of Software Factories and the SDM itself will be completely open and the future of the concept/schema will have an opportunity to be leveraged and influenced by outside parties. This is great news because I have a hard time envisioning the Software Factory metaphor being successful if it is completely owned by one entity rather than collectively owned by an industry.
Visual Studio Team System 2005 - There is still no answer with regard to supporting continuous Integration, Ala CruiseControl.net, in the Team Foundation server. Also, we possibly could see a new drop of Team system for the holidays.
Connected Systems - Architects tend to design connected systems from the system perspective and typically forget about the user perspective. Remember this: Never underestimate the power of the user.
Overall, The venue was nice and the view of the Cascades from the Microsoft conference center is amazing, the lunch was excessive, and the talks were insightful. The only suggestion I would have for Microsoft for upcoming forums would be to focus on one topic and drill down to a much deeper level. I enjoy introductory talks but I always seem to be yearning for more details. Regardless, I definitely will be looking forward to the next forum.
On a somewhat personal note, I was surprised to see my next door neighbor acting as the master of ceremonies for the forum. Steven Houglum is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Pacific Northwest, now I can bug my neighbor for cool free stuff and interesting architecture info. Pretty cool.
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