Saturday, February 24, 2007

Orcas

Having played around VSTS for some time now(Beta 2, Tech refresh and the live one), I would love to see what MSFT has in store for the Orcas version. Apparently chief among their concentration areas are:

I really hope MSFT can live upto its promise.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Case Study with MSFT

Apparently, we (SCI) was the first company that MSFT knows of, that got CMMi certified using the VSTS tool and the accompanying methodology. Interesting!
We have been invited to write a case study based on this...Should be interesting!

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Project Server 2007 and MOPS 2007 POC

Our company is in the midst of doing 2 POCs for these products. Any comments on the gotchas of these softwares would be welcome.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Back from India...

I came back 2 days back and straight in the grind. Couple of interesting developments that happened in India...will write more about them soon.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Vibha

Since the time I had seen Vibha active again about 2 weeks ago...I have been wanting to participate in this org..Nice NGO...Check it out...

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Sharepoint features

Here is an interesting article about new Sharepoint features:

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dustin/articles/5235.aspx

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

So many new technologies!!!

With the advent of 2007 there is goin to be a plethora of applications that will flood the market that need good study.
Chief among them being
Sharepoint 2007
WWF 3.0
VSTS new version
Project Server 2007
Office 2007

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Straight onto Real world

Now that the dept has achieved the Process Quality Goal, I went straight back to some pending work that I had like Working a very critical project that had several issues, getting team ready fpr PS2007 and newer version of VSTS (CMMi framework) as well as some other softwares that are getting ready to release.

Getting interested on reading about requirements gathering since thats one area we still need to work on...so long!

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Hurrah! CMM Level 2

Hurrah!! After a lot of hardwork from the entire team, CMM Level 2 was achieved by our department. Microsoft's latest VSTS tool had a lot to do with the initial fillip and then we rolledup our sleeves and did the needful as well.

Hope we can continue the momentum..Now onto something new and exciting!

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

D-Day

Finally after going through some grueling sessions, we are at the last day/interview of our CMM level 2 process. It has been a challenging process and although I knew of our team's ability to handle pressure well..I was impressed with the calmness that our team members displayed as they handled the volley of questions hurled at them by the external appraiser..

Hope all goes well today.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

About del.icio.us

I liked the idea about del.icio.us...This had been something that I was looking for in the past year or so...Bookmarks on the web is a great idea.

I have created mine at http://del.icio.us/advait_k

Friday, November 24, 2006

Getting closer to appraisal...

As we get jitters about getting so close to the CMMi Level 2 appraisal, there are some good news as well. Microsoft was inquisitive to know today how we used their methodology template to get Level 2 certification. I have a conference call with 4 people from the Pattern and Practices department and it should be interesting to have an article/ White paper about how SCI IT achieved level 2 using VSTS.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Been a while...

Its been a while since I last posted. The Company CMMi initiative is going really full steam and we hope to meet the Dec 4 deadline for CMMi interviews. T'will b interesting to see how we do to say the least.
Meanwhile I have grown some fancy to newer technologies like :
Office 12
Project Server 2007
WSS 3.O
Windows Workflow Foundation Services
.NET 3.O
Found an interesting blog about Software Return on Investment
http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2006/11/11/return-on-investment-on-software.aspx

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Sunday, September 03, 2006

CMMi Progress

We have made good amount of progress towards CMM Certification. The biggest obstacle in this process has been the lack of resources as well as getting the Configuration practice officially up. We have been doing a lot of things CM wise but putting it down on paper has been a tough job. Policy,Processes and plans have been updated. Now PMs just need to follow them correctly. Out of the 7 KPAs(Key Process Areas) I think we have nailed down REQM,PP,PMC,QA and CM nicely. The MA and SAM process areas are turning to be a challenge given the time that our team can dedicate towards these areas.
Lets see how we progress...

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Certification

Amid all the issues that we faced during CMMi Certification I think it might b really worth putting all these pts together and post it so that it will help others who want to take this route..

Friday, February 24, 2006

CMMi

Our company is in the process of undergoing a CMMi certification for Software development life cycle. If anybody has gone through the pains or wants to know about the same, contact me at advaitk@gmail.com

Tuesday, January 17, 2006