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Starting Ask Mode!
Check off another mini-milestone for Whidbey! Beta 2 Tell Mode is over, and we started "Ask Mode" today. Over the course of the last week, we finished up a round of what we called “aggressive”...
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In the home stretch....
Wow! It’s hard to believe but we’ve completed 5 weeks of “Ask Mode”. Every day for the past 5 weeks, representatives of each product team in the Division have met daily for 2 to 3 hours reviewing each...
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Whidbey Beta 2 Product Metrics/Release Criteria sign-off!
Last I blog’d I talked to the Product Metrics/Release Criteria… and now we’ve released Whidbey Beta 2! It has been a long but satisfying road… As you can see from Chris blog below “In the home...
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Whidbey Beta 2 “Broad Go-Live”
One of the things we are doing in Whidbey Beta 2 is providing a broad Go-Live License agreement. Some of you may remember we provided an ASP.NET Go-Live License with the Beta 2 release of the .NET...
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Whidbey Security: Pen Testing Engagement
I mentioned in my last blog that we’re heading towards a first step in the "Final Security Review" for Whidbey. A couple of weeks ago, our central security team finished a 9 week long Penetration...
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Whidbey RTM Tell Mode!
On Monday (6/20) the Platform teams (those teams shipping in the .NET Framework Redist) entered DevDiv Tell mode, I see this as a very exciting time of the product cycle! It is one where you can see...
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Whidbey Community Technology Previews (CTP)
Most of you are already aware of the Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Previews (CTP) and are familiar with the philosophy and benefits of the CTPs – you get working bits more frequently, great...
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Whidbey RTM Release Criteria – Dogfooding Team Foundation Server
During Whidbey Beta 1 we built a web application for reporting the division release criteria called DDMetrics. This tool served its purpose for Beta 1 and Beta 2. Now... it is time to take it to the...
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Whidbey RTM Escrow
As we begin to close down on Ask Mode for the Platform and Design Time teams we enter the final stage of the release, Whidbey RTM Escrow. DevDiv Whidbey RTM Escrow– thephasebefore the completion of...
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The RC: What works with what?
Soma received a few questions on his blog from folks who received the Release Candidate at the PDC about what works with what. The PDC was tricky because we wanted to have a set of bits that teams...
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What is "Shiproom"?
Many I’m sure have heard the “Warteam” meetings at Microsoft and probably about as many stories to go along with them. Here in the Developer Division (DevDiv from here on out…shorter to type) we have...
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Mike's Intro
Where to begin… I am one of the Program Managers working on the release of Whidbey. I started at Microsoft just over 9 years ago and I have been working on the Developer Division Release team for just...
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Releasing the Bits
Since we started this blog I have spent some time updating my music collection. In fact, as I type this I am listening to the band “Shadow’s Fall”, really, really loud. There is nothing like some...
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Rick James RIP while the Dev Div VBLs live on under the careful guidance of...
Funk legend Rick James passed away at age 56 last week. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5625044/Please join me in a moment of silence to remember the Super Freak of Funk…Developer Division VBL (Virtual...
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Driving our security push
I’ve been spending the past two weeks focusing on pulling together our security efforts for Whidbey. See Soma's blog on security in our division. We have scheduled a multi week period before our Beta2...
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Driving to ZBB
With the successful release of Whidbey Beta1 a few weeks ago, we’re now moving toward Beta2. The next key milestone between now and Beta2 is “ZBB.” It is critical to close down on open issues during...
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"Going Dark"
Whidbey is progressing toward its ZBB date, with only a few more weeks to go. For the past week, and the following, teams within DevDiv have “gone dark”. ZBB is about dropping to ‘zero’ bugs and...
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Product Unit Reviews
We’ve been driving our bug counts down over the past few months, with an eye on what we call ZBB. We "went dark" a few weeks back, which had a significant impact on the overall bug count and really...
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Product Metrics/Release Criteria
As we drive towards Whidbey Beta 2, the Product Metrics/Release Criteria are a main guiding principle in assuring we are shipping the right quality product. These metrics/criteria are made up of a...
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Shipping the October Community Technology Preview
As part of my tasks as a release manager, from time to time I actually get to ship software! Last week we shipped the Community Technology Preview (CTP) for October. This month’s CTP consisted of a new...
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