I attended the Seattle Facebook Developer Garage tonight and kudos to the folks who organized the event!  It was a fantastic event that was literally bursting at seams with people.  There must have been over 200 people at the event from...

Jeff Beehler was interviewed by Brian Keller on Channel 9 and talks about how VSTS runs their team from the highest level (Pillars), though Value Props, Features, all the way down through Tasks, which could even have sub-tasks.  You'll notice that...

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to demo TeamSpec to Brian Keller and the Channel 9 camera!  I want to thank Brian for the opportunity to show some of the software we've been building at Personify for the last 2+ years.  One thing...

I will be attending both Mix08 in Las Vegas this week as well as SEPG 2008 in Tampa starting on March 17. At Mix, I'll be roaming the sessions as well as the hands-on-labs rooms.  At SEPG, I will be at the Personify Design station of the Microsoft...

It's very exciting to see the different creations that people in the TFS community are creating using TeamSpec.  At the outset of TeamSpec, we set to solve the stale document problem.  In the process, we ended up created an environment in Word...

We're very excited (and happy) to announce the release of TeamLook for TFS 2008!  In addition to support for TFS 2008, we’ve made some usability and performance improvements which also make TeamLook for TFS 2005 better.  You’ll notice that we’ve...

“What does the spec say it should do?”  These words can come from anyone on the IT team!  We’ve heard them from testers that are verifying functionality.  We’ve heard them from managers asking to understand project progress or approving...

Terry Clancy will be giving an online talk/webcast on Requirements and VSTS tomorrow!  Apologies for the short notice, but there's still time to register. Register at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032362264&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US...

The journey into creating more videos that show TeamSpec is action is DONE!  Well, for now :).   Visit the new 'Discover TeamSpec' page at http://www.personifydesign.com/products/teamspec/discover.aspx to view the six videos that show...

First off, Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you had a great holiday break and are ready for an exciting 2008!  We're in the final stages of stabilization for TeamSpec and I've started to put together some videos showing off the functionality. ...

It's always great to see your work on stage!  Today I had the pleasure of sitting in the audience at the TechEd EMEA keynote where Soma (Corporate VP Developer Division), Tony Goodhew (Senior Product Manager), and Dan Fernandez (Lead Product Manager)...

I’ve received a few requests for help on justifications for Requirements efforts in teams.  Often it’s someone trying to get resources from their management with hopes of understanding and evolving their software process.  The ultimate challenge...

Drop me a line if you are heading to Barcelona for TechEd Developers on November 5th and you would like to meet up.  I'm always up for meeting up with people and talking shop.  (juanjperez -a-t- gmail dot com) Cheers,Juan...

During software engineering consulting engagements I spend quite a bit of time learning how each team works together to do what they do.  Much like the beginnings of a software project, I go through an investigation phase where I literally ask questions...

Download the TeamSpec CTP Now!   Before we release a v1.0 of TeamSpec, we want to share the state of the product.  We’re very close to making the v1.0 release and wanted to make one final pre-release update both to get more feedback as well...

Before I get started, I apologize for being under the radar since TechEd US.  Although there are no excuses, I do have reasons.  :)  Here goes: We've been very heads down making a push to release TeamSpec.  A few weeks ago I was...

Thank you very much for coming to my session on Tuesday.  It was very exciting to have a more than filled room with some great questions.  I haven’t gotten the final headcount, but my guess is that about 150 people attended.  I think it's...

It's day two at TechEd 2007 in Orlando and Visual Studio Team System seems to be playing an even bigger role than in years past.  This is a sign not only from the number of available breakout sessions, but also the energy and number of VSTS discussions...

It seems that I've been hibernating since I haven't posted for most of the winter.  Not only did we have a pretty harsh winter in Seattle, we were all heads down (at Personify) working on some pretty exciting projects. New PD Site The biggest news...

We’re very happy to announce that TeamSpec Beta has been released and is now available for download.     As discussed in the Discover TeamSpec section of our website, TeamSpec aims to solve the ‘Stale Document’ problem by integrating TFS Work...