"Customer doesn't care whose fault it is; they just want things to work." Good reminder for me, personally.
Got to talk to a very delightful p&p program manager/session presenter in the coffee line while a different session was going on. If I were actually any good at this "networking" thing, I would have figured out a way to snag a business card or thought of a thought-provoking question for further follow-up. Live & learn.
"When [users/developers] get a new version and have to spend all their up-front time fixing compatibility issues, they tend to not want to use your app at all." Not that Microsoft would know, of course. ;)
Much later in the day...
Experimental 15-minute "lightning sessions" debuting this year. The first one was a Program Manager discussing transition to Agile, which was disappointing because it didn't cover Agile in very much depth. In 15 minutes. I know! Really! (Ahem, kidding.)
The current "lightning session" covers a concept called Behavior-Driven Design. I love it. This is either something we are already accidentally doing, or something I wish we were doing. Either way, it seems to me that it would fit well within the methodologies we already use. Awesome.
I exercised restraint and did not "mention" the speaker, @ElegantCoder, in a tweet, even after other attendees did and his TweetDeck notifications started popping up on his presentation laptop. The temptation was tremendous.
So he uses the word "scenario" for the "given/when/then" construct describing a desired/expected behavior. We also use the word "scenario" and I'm trying to figure out whether our usage is reasonably compatible with this standard definition, or if we're abusing it. We use it to describe automatedly-testable behaviors, so it does seem to fit together, but it doesn't really describe our internal architecture, so maybe not so much.
OK, this is cool. Third lightning session on SharePoint development seemed ridiculously irrelevant to our team, but instead, here he is demoing the concept of Inversion of Control, which is perfect for some of the team members we brought along, and the examples are simple, and he's explaining the value IoC adds to the process. Hooray!
That means 2.5 out of 3 lightnings are useful so far.
Last lightning round: Billy Hollis. Always a total, major win even if he doesn't fully appreciate that there may be female coders in his audience (or in the universe) when he writes his jokes. Ahem. *dusts shoulder-chip* I'll still give him full credit for "useful". 3.5 out of four, nice work p&p.
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