Doug Seven

Director of Product Management, Visual Studio

Better Software Development for Agile Teams

A few week's ago the latest book from Jim Newkirk and Will Stott was released, Visual Studio Team...

Author: dougseven Date: 07/03/2007

Adventures in Unit Testing Persuasion

A couple weeks ago a friend asked me to help him put together a compelling story for his engineering...

Author: dougseven Date: 06/28/2007

Tagspace Beta Refresh

We just released a refresh to our Tagspace product. Check it out. You can now tag web-based...

Author: dougseven Date: 06/06/2007

TechEd 2007 - Party with Palermo...I'll be there

Aside from all my other TechEd activities, I will most definitely be attending the Party with...

Author: dougseven Date: 05/31/2007

TechEd 07 in Orlando: I'll Be There ... Will You?

Quick note to say, hey, I'll be at TechEd '07 in Orlando next week, June 1st - 9th, and would love a...

Author: dougseven Date: 05/29/2007

Cross Posting to Microsoft.community Beta Blog

I am now cross posting to my Microsoft.community Beta blog. Technorati tags: Microsoft.community,...

Author: dougseven Date: 05/09/2007

Implementing the MVC Pattern in ASP.NET

On Monday I presented to the Redmond/Seattle .NET Developer's Association. The topic was,...

Author: dougseven Date: 05/09/2007

Microsoft.community and xClaims/Claimspace

Korby has posted a great deal of information about our xClaim effort (part of the Rapport Service I...

Author: dougseven Date: 04/20/2007

Microsoft.community Beta Released

The Microsoft.com Community Technologies Team (the team I am on) has just released our beta of the...

Author: dougseven Date: 04/17/2007

Unit Testing Moving to VS Pro

The best decision ever was recently made...the decision to move the most of the Visual Studio Team...

Author: dougseven Date: 04/16/2007

Agile Development Center on MSDN

MSDN recently launched it's Agile Development Center. In the ADC you can learn about how the...

Author: dougseven Date: 04/16/2007

MVP Podcast Including an Interview with Communtiy Technologies Team

A coupole weeks ago the MVP Summit was in town. Sandy, Alan and I have the dubious honor to be...

Author: dougseven Date: 03/29/2007

Microsoft.community - RC Almost Baked

After several months of work, changing dependancies, a couple designs, and a handful of UI attempts,...

Author: dougseven Date: 03/29/2007

MXPS Communities Team Interview

Sandy, YAG, and I were recently interviewed by Rich Costall and Dave McMahon of the Next Generation...

Author: dougseven Date: 03/15/2007

Boise CodeCamp: Unit Testing Fundamentals

Unit Testing (from the Testing track)In this session you will learn how and why to unit test the...

Author: dougseven Date: 02/11/2007

Boise CodeCamp: Test Driven Development Using VSTS

Test Driven Development Using VSTS (from the .NET / Visual Studio track)In this session you will...

Author: dougseven Date: 02/10/2007

Boise CodeCamp: Enabling REST in ASP.NET

Building a RESTful Web Application in ASP.NET 2.0 (from the Internet track)Representational State...

Author: dougseven Date: 02/10/2007

Get Some REST at the .NET Developer's Association Meeting : 2/12/07

On February 12, 2007 I will be presenting at the Redmond area .NET Developer's Association meeting....

Author: dougseven Date: 02/02/2007

New Session Added at Boise Code Camp

I picked up an additional session for the Boise Code Camp on February 10, 2007.Unit Testing (from...

Author: dougseven Date: 02/02/2007

Boise (Code Camp) Here We Come

On February 10th four of my coworkers and I will decend upon Boise, ID to attend and present at the...

Author: dougseven Date: 01/31/2007

Scrum in a Heat

In my group we have adopted Scrum, along with a "Heat" variant. That is, a Heat is 3 month-long...

Author: dougseven Date: 01/09/2007

Writing Stories for Scrum

This week I have been giving a lot of thought to how stories should be written for Scrum projects. I...

Author: dougseven Date: 10/10/2006

Software Development Engineer in Microsoft.com Community Technologies Team

Software Development Engineer in Microsoft.com Community Technologies TeamMargaret Mead once said,...

Author: dougseven Date: 10/03/2006

.NET 3.0 Roadshows coming to a city near you this October!

Dr. Dobb’s SD Events is thrilled to announce our new .NET 3.0 Roadshows coming to a city near...

Author: dougseven Date: 09/19/2006

New Blog

One of the developers on my team has set up a new blog on blogs.msdn.com. He is working on a...

Author: dougseven Date: 07/19/2006

Accountability in a Scrum World

One day last week, I was reflecting on the day I had, which included a Sprint retrospective of a...

Author: dougseven Date: 05/22/2006

Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET) Opening in Microsoft.com Community Technologies

Are you intrigued by the world of open source development? Are you interested in enabling shared...

Author: dougseven Date: 03/30/2006

Mix06: Day One - Live and WPF

I attended a couple more sessions today, The Windows Live Platform: Build Applications That Have...

Author: dougseven Date: 03/20/2006

Other MXPS Bloggers

There are a few other people from MXPS (Microsoft eXperience Platform Solutions - the group I work...

Author: dougseven Date: 03/20/2006

Mix06: Day One - BillG Keynote

Today is the beginning of the first ever Mix06 conference. I am currently sitting in Dean...

Author: dougseven Date: 03/20/2006

Test Driven Development with Visual Studio Team System

On Monday, February 27th I gave a presentation at the DotNetUsers.org User Group meeting in Redmond,...

Author: dougseven Date: 03/06/2006

Software Development Engineer in Microsoft.com Communities Technologies Team

I am looking for a star developer to add to my team - the team that builds the community...

Author: dougseven Date: 12/19/2005

Codezone Community Search on Microsoft.com

This is simply an exciting week! Today the MSDN & TechNet Platform Group (MTPG) released their...

Author: dougseven Date: 10/28/2005

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