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Collaboration Design Pattern?
A couple of months ago I wrote about the difficulty I was having with project collaboration. Mike Sax referred to that post (scroll down a way), saying that I should send everyone I work with a copy of “Getting Things Done“. Well, I bought the book, read it, and in fact - yes - it is changing the way I work. However, the book doesn't really say anything about collaboration and when I mentioned this to Mike at TechEd last month he said “well, I only read part of it“!
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The "best" thing at TechEd (a little late...)
The “best” thing at TechEd 2004 San Diego was undoubtedly the cabanas. It was like an extended “Ask The Experts”, except that - confusingly - the sessions were actually caled “Meet The Technologist”. The a/v support was abysmal, which lead to some creative solutions:
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Whither WSE?
Yesterday I did a workshop on “Best Practices for .NET Enterprise Architecture” at the Enterprise Architecture Summit 2004 in Palm Springs. One of the questions I asked the 30 people in my workshop was “How many of you are familiar with WSE?”. About 10 hands. Then, “How many of you are using or are planning to use WSE”? Zero hands. Whoa! Then, “How many of you are not going to use it because of something the Indigo team has told you?” The same ten hands. Which pretty much confirms what I heard at TechEd, which was customers telling me that the Indigo team had told them to “hold off“ on WSE.