There have been some management and organization changes that affect the MSF team at Microsoft. Recently our boss, Julia Liuson was asked to move over and run the Visual Basic Product Unit. Congratulations Julia on this move!

Meanwhile, Michael Kropp, the General Manager of Patterns and Practices (also known as PAG, the part of MSFT that Ward Cunnigham used to work for) has taken over as the Product Unit Manager for Team Architect. He brought Patterns and Practices with him. MSF is now part of Patterns and Practices with Rick Maguire as the new manager.

I'm fantastically excited about this news and what it might mean for the future of MSF and Microsoft's software engineering tools and process. MSF process guidance delivers the Who, What, When, Where, and Why of software process activities, while Patterns and Practices and their guidance and source code offerings deliver the How. Puting us together with them rounds out our offering and working under the same boss makes it so much easier. When you add these possibilities to the already exciting material coming from Team Architect including Domain Specific Langauges (DSL) and Software Factories (SFx) then we are well on our way to delivering on my dream of a whole new, better, more productive, higher quality, way to build software. I really feel we are set up for success with this new management structure and I'm hugely excited to be part of it. Technorati tag: Agile, David+Anderson, Microsoft, Patterns+Practices, Software+Factories, Domain+Specific+Languages, DSL, Model+Driven+Development, MDD