VS2010 Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Collaboration… MyFavoriteNamspace
Got this message this morning, while not connected with the Internet. So this message won’t appear that often, when you are always connected.
Because it’s a kind of strange message, I just wanted to open VS 2010. so, it needed some investigation, where did it came from?
A very obvious place the Team Members menu…
Clicking ‘the personal settings’ menu showed the assembly which does the work, the section “collaboration” has a capability to set providers, collaboration platform providers… very very interesting!!
A quick look with the Architecture Explorer shows a nice provider model with a Office communicator provider and a MSN Messenger provider…
So this will give us the possibilities to create or own providers to get connected with our team members, curious when the first Facebook, LinkedIn or Zune social providers will be created.. Visual Studio and ALM are all about collaboration, so this is really a nice development.
[this is 2008 powertools functionality, see Brian’s post how to extend it; Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool]
Collaborative Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making…
Nice article by Gartner and fits partly in the presentation Edward and I gave yesterday for SDN; having guidance in VSTS2010 for you design and architecture process as I call it “Collaborative Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making”…
These are the Key Findings of the report, its interesting to read them with software architecture process in mind:
- CDM is a category of decision support system for nonroutine, complex decisions that require iterative human interactions.
- Social software extends the collaborative decision-making process by allowing decision makers to discuss an issue, "brainstorm" options, evaluate their pros and cons, and agree on a course of action.
- Tagging the decisions made in social software with information from BI systems enables users to be informed when decision-making assumptions change.
- Ad hoc tagging regarding value, relevance, credibility and decision context can substantially enrich both the decision process and the content that contributes to the decisions.
Free Book Download: Collaboration in the Cloud - How cross-boundary collaboration is transforming business
ISBN: 978 90 75414 24 0 Print version available from April 15th.
Download pdf here [link below the text]
This title has not yet been released.
but you can pre-order it ;-)
other book news from Sogeti and co-author Sander is the release of the English edition of “MeTheMedia”.
Free for download.. here
Application Lifecycle Management and a Collaborative Culture.
I had some interesting discussion last week about working together and ALM, based on what I wrote in this post Visual Studio Team System 2010 – Episode 3: The Lifecycle;
Tools can help with this goal. Having gear in place which supports and stimulates collaboration is a driver for a successful Application Lifecycle Management. But without a plan, how people should collaborate and communicate, tools are useless.
Now I’m not a Team Dynamics nor a behavioral specialist. But, I did some investigation according these topics past year for the Cloud Collaboration Book we have written.
A big word in the Book TagCloud is ‘Collaboration’ [made by wordle.net]
So, I thought [also as a trigger for the book :-) available on Amazon somewhere in March] let’s take the intro of the chapter which talks about this. The topics and main concerns fit perfectly on ALM culture.
Creating new modes of collaboration supported by technology can only be done by addressing the human aspect. More specifically, we need to address some of the worries and obstacles people encounter when collaborating using technology.
The three most important concerns are:
Trust. Trust is a condition for social interaction. People will only work with people, companies, tools and information they know they can trust. Before we can expect collaboration to take off online, there must be a way for people to get this “trust.” And a topic closely associated with trust when it refers to people is Identity.
Collaborative culture. If one individual is the greatest collaborator in the world, he or she is probably not getting anywhere. Only when all people involved are part of the same collaborative culture will new levels of creativity and productivity be reached. A collaborative culture consists of many things, including:
- Collaborative leadership;
- Shared goals;
- Shared model of the truth; and
- Rules or norms.
Reward. Changing the way people work takes effort, so it must be clear for the parties involved what they will gain, at a personal level, from collaborating in a new way. Surprisingly, a “reward” for successful collaboration is most often of a non-financial nature.
“The ways that people work together shift over time, which can affect your culture of collaboration. More important, the introduction of collaboration technologies can also change the culture of collaboration. If handled properly, the tools and the culture will coevolve.”
Dennis Kennedy
Dutch-Information-Worker-User-Group Presentation.
TagCloud of my presentation for this evening at DIWUG… Serge is the other speaker and is going to speak about MS-Online.
Its also the TagCloud from the book we have written, will be available with in weeks…
