My colleague Sam Guckenheimer, Group Product Planner for Visual Studio and Team System, has just launched his blog. He also has a book out, Software Engineering With Visual Studio Team System with contributions from Juan Perez of Personify Design. I personally think that this book is a great addition to the agile literature even though it is billed as a software engineering book for Microsoft platform developers. I read the first full draft returning from Tokyo on April 10th 2005. I think Sam did a marvelous job with the book that took him almost three years to write.

Plus, check this out. I have a quote on the back cover along with my good process buddies Bill Curtis from Borland and Francis Delgado from Avanade. The back cover reads like a good group at an SEPG cocktail party. Cups up!

"This is first and foremost a book about software engineering. In discussing flash points such as planning, documentation, governance, auditability, and organization, Sam presents the case for both agile and more formal practices, as well as describing the optimal conditions for each. Even though the material is presented in the context of VSTS, the guidance is universal."

-Dr. Bill Curtis, chief process officer, Borland Software Corporation

"Sam Guckenheimer ushers in the era of trustworthy transparency that will revolutionize the way we manage software development projects."

-David J. Anderson, author of Agile Management for Software Engineering

"This book is an eye opener: a door to a new era of software engineering."

-Francis T. Delgado, senior program manager, Avanade Technorati tag: Agile, David+Anderson, Bill+Curtis, VSTS, MSF, Sam+Guckenheimer, Visual+Studio