Microsoft on Scrum & Extreme Programming

One way Microsoft's development teams intend to deliver products to market faster is through the use of agile development methodologies, such as extreme programming and Scrum. You may have seen some of our many other blogs on Scrum.

David Treadwell, corporate vice president of the .Net Developer Platform group at Microsoft, said that while Microsoft welcomes the use of methodologies like Scrum, "we're not mandating them, but we're encouraging them..."

"The other is extreme programming—the concept where you might have two people working on a given piece of code and the idea is that two minds are better than one. Because you can find problems faster."

Scrum process can not only be used for developing applications, but also to test them for quality assurance sign-off.

Thanks to e-Week for the news. For more see:
Microsoft Lauds 'Scrum' Method for Software Projects