TFS

I've been re-watching many of the sessions I watched while at Tech-Ed 2008 in Barcelona. I've also been watching some of the sessions that I hadn't been able to attend. One of them being how Team Foundation Server is being used at Microsoft. A couple of things gets under my skin in terms of why can they do it and I can't.

Thousands of users, terabytes of data. OMG! If its good enough for them surely its good enough for us! Is it overkill for a small software development team? Is there a substantial cost of ownership? According to the session it can support Agile methodologies niucely. Generally i got a lot of agile vibes from Tech-Ed. Now if thats a marketing strategy or if its for real who knows. But they have me convinced. Anyway, I think i'd like giving it another twirl some time. There's just no time is there...

XP

I've finally got my hands on Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition) . I'm about half was through so far, but I must admit I was hoping for more detail on some of the practices. I've generally found that http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ had a very good amount of information about XP, and presented in a very nice manner. I was hoping the book would expand on this. I do wonder if the first edition of the book has the extra info I would like, but I don't think I'm going to get it.

My next buy will probably be the SCRUM book. I've heard good stuff about SCRUM, and watched a few sessions at Tech-Ed on it. I think it'll do our organisation good.