What it takes to be a Dev Lead at patterns & practices

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One very important area where a dev lead must excel, specially at patterns & practices where there's a lot of interaction with product groups across Microsoft, is to be able to handle situations smoothly, keep several mind-threads and tasks running at the same time, etc., in other words, you have to be kind of a juggler with regards to people, projects, and so on.

Peter is very good at it, not only metaphorically, as you can see ;)

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You can see Scott, Brian and Brad watch him in awe.

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  • And yet they come up with such crap frameworks that are not being embraced by anuone.

  • That's hardly true. All of PAG deliverables are widespread and showcase best practices in .NET development. I wish all OS projects out there were developed by equally capable and creative people.

  • I think these capable and creative people are too distant from the daily business coding/work to suggest frameworks like UIP. The thing is a productivity breaker, and, like the others, make intensive use of XML descriptors which is great if someone in a small island have to change some piece of configuration in a distant future.



    Constructive criticism: the capable and creative people should be a little bit more pragmatic, check self dscribing frameworks out there (ruby on rails?), ability to auto wire instead of forcing the developer to "help it", read about the DRY principle, predictable behaviors, well, the list goes on and on.



    But heck, if there are people willing to embrace it, then all is not lost, right? I'd rather code my own, make my beliefs public and slowly create a community around it who shares the same principles.

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