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- Freedom from the Inside Out
- 25 Ways to Get Better Results
- Reimagine Your Productivity at Getting Results.com
- What is the Secret to Insane Productivity?
- Digital Transformation Defined
- SWAYAM: India’s First MOOCs Platform
- Satya Nadella on Digital Transformation
- A Language for Architecture
- Personal Empowerment All-Stars: Jack Canfield, Ken Blanchard, and Stephen Covey at Microsoft
- Now Available: The Relaunch of Sources of Insight
- Digital Transformation is Ongoing
- Digital Transformation is Business Transformation
- Start with Needs and Wants
- Agile Results for 2016
- Productivity Power Magazine
- How To Stay Motivated for 2016 with a Vision Board
2015 52
- The Best Books I Read in 2015
- Agile Results for Year-End Reflection
- 10 Personal Productivity Tools from Agile Results
- Teach the World Your Skills in a Mobile-First, Cloud-First World
- 3 Fights Each Day
- Blogging Resources at a Glance
- The Top 10 Project Management Books
- The Ultimate Personal Productivity Platform is You
- Every Employee is a Digital Employee
- What Life is Like with Agile Results
- 30 Day Sprints for Personal Development: Change Yourself with Skill
- Personal Development Insights from the Greatest Book on Personal Development Ever
- What is Insight?
- The Best Productivity Book for Free
- How To Get Smarter By Making Distinctions
- We Help Our Customers Transform
- Satya Nadella on a Mobile-First, Cloud-First World
- Skilled for Life
- Dealing with People You Can’t Stand
- Inspirational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, and Great Leadership Quotes
- Leadership Skills for Making Things Happen
- Startup Thinking
- Visionary Leadership: How To Be a Visionary Leader (Or at Least Look Like One)
- Goofy Innovation Techniques
- Are You an Integration Specialist?
- Task Management for Teams
- The Innovation Revolution (A Time of Radical Transformation)
- How To Get Innovation to Succeed Instead of Fail
- The Story of a Digital Artist
- The Myths of Business Model Innovation
- Life Quotes That Will Change Your Life
- Boost Your Confidence with the Right Words
- Trends for 2015
- 7 Habits of Highly Motivated People
- 10 Leadership Ideas to Improve Your Influence and Impact
- Successful Digital Vision Starts at the Top
- 101 Proven Practices for Focus
- The Great Positive Thinking Quotes Collection
- The Microsoft Story for the Cloud
- Why We Are Moving to the Cloud: Agility, Economics, and Innovation
- The Great Motivational Quotes Revamped
- The Great Inspirational Quotes Collection Revamped
- The Great Productivity Quotes Collection Revamped
- The Great Personal Development Quotes Collection Revamped
- The Great Leadership Quotes Collection Revamped
- Interview with The Entrepreneur's Library on Getting Results the Agile Way
- Bandita Joarder on How Presence is Something You Can Learn
- Habits, Dreams, and Goals
- Use 30 Days of Getting Results to Help You Reach Your Goals for 2015
- Lessons Learned from John Maxwell Revisited
- My Story of Personal Transformation
- Get Your Goals On
2014 79
- There’s Magic in the Air
- Productivity Books to Help You Know More, Be More, and Achieve More
- Santa Lands on a Virgin Atlantic Plane with 4D Technology
- The Best Books I Read in 2014
- 10 Big Ideas from A Christmas Carol
- The Sweet Spot of Customer Demand Meets Microsoft Supply
- Former Softie Patricia Walsh Sets a World Record for Blind Triathletes
- If You Want to Thrive at Microsoft
- How To Build a Roadmap for Your Digital Business Transformation
- How To Improve the IT-Business Relationship
- Drive Business Transformation by Reenvisioning Your Operations
- Driving Business Transformation by Reenvisioning Your Customer Experience
- 100 Top Agile Blogs
- The Future of IT Leaders
- Think a Series of Sprints, Not Marathons
- Building Better Business Cases for Digital Initiatives
- How Digital is Changing Physical Experiences
- Emotional Intelligence is a Key Leadership Skill
- The Future of Jobs
- Management Innovation is at the Top of the Innovation Stack
- How To Think Like a Microsoft Executive
- Cuttable Scope
- Ten at Ten Meetings
- Cloud Changes the Game from Deployment to Adoption
- How To Rapidly Brainstorm and Share Ideas with Method 635
- 10 High-Value Activities in the Enterprise
- 10 Big Ideas from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Minimum Credible Release (MCR) and Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Inspirational Work Quotes at a Glance
- How To Use Personas and Scenarios to Drive Adoption and Realize Value
- How Can Enterprise Architects Drive Business Value the Agile Way?
- Success Articles for Work and Life
- Are You Doing Agile Results?
- The Principles of Modern Management
- No Slack = No Innovation
- 3 Challenges to Help You Set New Benchmarks in Innovation
- Fearless Speaking
- Who's Managing Your Company?
- 100 Articles to Sharpen Your Mind
- Agile and the Definition of Quality
- Data Science is the Art of Asking Better Questions
- Time is The Great Equalizer
- How I Explained My Job to My Grandmother
- Introduction to Agile Presentation
- Engineer Your Own Luck
- Extreme Programming (XP) at a Glance (Visual)
- What is Agile?
- Why Agile?
- Capitalizing on the Internet of Things: How To Succeed in a Connected World
- Scrum at a Glance (Visual)
- Waterfall to Agile
- High-Performance Patterns: Find Your Personal High-Performance Pattern
- High-Performance Mode for Outstanding Personal Performance
- Physical Intelligence and How To Live Longer with Skill
- Value is Everybody’s Job
- 10 Big Ideas from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- Why Have a Strategy?
- The Industry Life Cycle
- The Growth Mindset: A Key to Resilience, Motivation, and Achievement
- 7 Days of Agile Results: A Time Management Boot Camp for Productivity on Fire
- 10 Big Ideas from XYZ
- Satya Nadella on How the Key To Longevity is To Be a Learning Organization
- Satya Nadella on How Success is a Mental Game
- Satya Nadella on Live and Work a Meaningful Life
- Satya Nadella on Everyone Has to Be a Leader
- Prompt Yourself to New Levels of Amazing Personal Productivity
- Power Hours + Creative Hours = The Productive Artist
- Satya Nadella is All About Customer Focus, Employee Engagement, and Changing the World
- Satya Nadella on The Future is Software
- Satya Nadella is the New Microsoft CEO
- Day 7 of 7 Days of Agile Results–Saturday (Have Fun)
- Day 5 of 7 Days of Agile Results – Thursday (Daily Outcomes)
- Day 4 of 7 Days of Agile Results - Wednesday (Daily Outcomes)
- Day 3 of 7 Days of Agile Results – Tuesday (Daily Outcomes)
- Day 2 of 7 Days of Agile Results - Monday (Monday Vision)
- Day 1 of 7 Days of Agile Results - Sunday (Getting Started)
- Extreme Goal Setting for 2014
- The Most Effective CIOs in 2014
- How To Have Your Best Year Ever
2013 116
- Declaration of Interdependence
- The Power of Annual Reviews for Personal Development
- Countdown Deal for Getting Results the Agile Way on Kindle
- 25 Holiday Classic Movies and a Lesson Learned
- Personal Development Articles Free and At Your Fingertips
- Lists at a Glance
- How Tos for Personal Effectiveness at a Glance
- 10 Emotional Intelligence Articles for Improving Your Effectiveness in Work and Life
- Nelson Mandela Quotes
- The Greatest Personal Development Gifts
- 25 Bill Gates Lessons Revisited
- Blessing Sibanyoni on Value Realization
- Martin Sykes on Value Realization
- Cognizant on the Next Generation Enterprise
- What are the Keys to Winning in Any Economy?
- Life Hacks on Sources of Insight
- Strategic Talent Acquisition
- Steve Ballmer Quotes
- The Recipe of Great Leaders: WHY, HOW, WHAT
- The Power of Values
- What are the Most Useful CIO Resources?
- The Exponential Results Formula
- Dive Right In: The Art of Menu Design in Action
- The Collaboration Economy
- Now Available: Trends Page at Sources of Insight
- Mark Bestauros on Value Realization
- Cloud Scenarios at Your Fingertips
- NLP Patterns and Practices for High-Performance Teams and Achievers
- 7 Metaphors for Leadership Transformation
- Asian Efficiency on 6 Ways Agile Results is Better than GTD
- The Gift of Adversity
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People at a Glance
- E-Shaped People, Not T-Shaped
- The Power of Learning Docs
- Write the Story for Your Project
- How I Learned to Use Scenarios to Evaluate Things
- Lifehacker on 30 Days of Getting Results
- Book Reviews at a Glance
- Business Value Generation is the New Bottleneck
- Sources of Insight Refresh: Insights and Actions for Work and Life at Your Fingertips
- Back to School Special on Getting Results the Agile Way
- Negotiation Skills for Work and Life (or How To Master the Art of Getting What You Want)
- Emotional Intelligence Quotes
- 30 Days of Getting Results Updated Based on Feedback
- What’s the Hope, What’s in the Way, What’s the Path
- Interview with Canada’s National Newspaper on Agile Results and Timeboxing
- Impostor Syndrome: Is Your Success Only on the Outside?
- Don’t Push Agile, Pull It
- Anatomy of a High-Potential
- Steve Ballmer On a Big Vision — To Help People Realize Their Full Potential
- Rounding Up the Greatest Thoughts of All Time
- Improve Your Execution Excellence with Roadmaps at a Glance
- How To Instantly Improve Your Productivity and Focus with Agile Results
- Agile Avoids Work About Work
- Lean to Drive Portfolios, Agile to Optimize How You Work
- Talk Teams Not Resources
- 10 Tips on Better Design by David Straker
- Crafting Your 3 Wins for the Day Using Agile Results
- Visual - Backlogs with User Input
- 50 Life Hacks Your Future Self with Thank You For
- How To Use Monday Vision, Daily Wins, Friday Reflection to Triple Your Productivity
- 3 Ways to Accelerate Business Value
- What Keeps Leaders Up at Night
- Inspire a Vision with Skill
- Business Techniques in Troubled Times: A Toolbox for Small Business Success
- Proven Practices for Improving Focus
- Focus Checklist v2
- The Innovative Team
- Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes
- 30 Nuggets on Software Development from Shaping Software
- Simple Enterprise Strategy
- How NOT To Make Money Online
- Daniel Cook on 8 Laws of Productivity
- Any Activity Can Be Turned into a Game
- Free Time Management Skills Guide
- Chalene Johnson on Personal Development, Productivity, Motivation, and More
- What Do Customers Teach Us About Business?
- How To Use Tasks in Microsoft Outlook More Effectively
- 7 Ways to Take an Outside-In View of Your Group
- Gartner Says Smart Organizations Will Embrace Fast and Frequent Project Failure in Their Quest for Agility
- Agile Downsizing: Why Agile Skills Improve a Project Manager’s Job Security
- Are You Used to Delivering Working Software on a Daily Basis and Changing the Software in Response to Emerging Requirements?
- 10 Ways to Make Agile Design More Effective
- Inspiring a Vision
- Sinofsky on How To Analyze the Competition
- Microsoft Secret Stuff
- Creating Career Opportunities
- Innovation Quotes
- The Key to Agility: Breaking Things Down
- Elizabeth Edersheim on Management Lessons of a Lifelong Student
- Wearable Computing
- Tell Your Story and Build Your Brand
- Change the World by Changing Behaviors
- Leadership Development in a Box
- Dreamers and Doers
- 5 of the Best Books I’ve Read Recently on Getting Jobs, Doing Leadership, and Presenting with Skill
- Sources of Insight is New and Improved
- Write Down Your Three Wins
- Advice is for Winners
- The Operating Model as Company Vision
- The Gamification of Education
- The Art of the Agile Retrospective
- Diversification, Coordination, Replication, and Unification
- Architecture Linkage, Business Linkage, and Alignment Linkage
- How To Build a Foundation for Execution
- Getting Things Done with SWAT Mode
- How To Turn IT into an Asset Rather than a Liability
- Getting Started with Agile Results Revisited
- Kanban for Process Improvement
- 347 Personal Effectiveness Articles to Help You Change Your Game
- Roles on Agile Teams
- Personal Effectiveness at Microsoft
- A Quick Roundup of Reviews for Getting Results the Agile Way
- Productivity on Fire: 30 Days of Getting Results
- How To Find Your Purpose
- Trends for 2013 at a Glance
2012 143
- Microsoft Developer Platform at a Glance
- Inspirational Quotes for 2013
- Office 365 at a Glance
- Microsoft Explained: Making Sense of the Microsoft Platform Story
- Windows Azure at a Glance
- 30 Day Improvement Sprints: The Key to Making Impact, Changing Habits, and Rapid Learning
- Weekly Outcomes for Teams and Leaders
- Personal Development Books at Your Fingertips
- Best Leadership Books
- Best Business Books List, Version 2
- Career Books
- Time Management Books
- Free Book: Getting Results the Agile Way
- Mid-Year Review, Career, and Getting Ahead
- Great Books
- Guy Kawasaki on Self-Publishing
- Zig Ziglar Quotes
- If You’re Afraid of Your To-Do List, It’s Not Working
- Nobody Wants to Invest
- 10 Big Ideas from Getting Results the Agile Way
- Tim Ferriss Interview on The 4-Hour Chef
- How To Lead High-Performance Distributed Teams
- How To Be Ready for Any Emergency
- Thanks for Sharing Getting Results the Agile Way
- 80/20 People vs. Perpetually Incomplete People
- Never Be Defeated
- Why So Many Ideas Die or Don't Get Adopted
- Personal Development Quotes
- Think in Three Wins
- Agile Results in Evernote with One Notebook
- ALM Categories at a Glance
- How To Get Things Done When You Don’t Have Enough Resources, Budget, or Capacity
- Careers: Losing Jobs, Finding Jobs, Creating Jobs, and Changing Jobs
- Microsoft Cloud Analysis Tool and Infrastructure Optimization Tool
- How We Adhered to the Agile Manifesto on the Microsoft patterns & practices Team
- Roles and Responsibilities on Microsoft patterns & practices Project Teams
- Visualize Your Workstreams
- Time Management Magazine Features an Article on Agile Results
- New Cover for Getting Results the Agile Way
- Change Patterns: Strategies for Influence and Impact
- Team Execution Patterns and How the Work Gets Done
- Layered Architecture Solution Guidance for 2012
- Reduce Complexity, Cost, and Time
- How To Read 10,000 Words a Minute
- The Microsoft Career Survival Guide
- How To Scale as a One-Man Band to Improve Your Productivity and Amplify Your Impact
- Agile Life-Cycle Frame
- Agile Performance Engineering
- It’s Not Volume, It’s Value
- Time Management Tips #21 - Create an Achievements List
- How To Rate Your Job
- Time Management Tips #20 - Priorities List
- How To Read Blogs More Effectively
- 3 Calendar Reminders for Agile Results
- Should 30 Days of Getting Results Be Flashcards or a List of Lessons?
- Time Management Tips #19 - Just Finish
- 25 Books the Most Successful Microsoft Leaders Read and Do
- Time Management Tips #17-Identify Outcomes
- Change Quotes
- The Values of Agile Results
- Time Management Tips #14 - Dump Your State
- Why We Feel Unproductive
- 7 Practices for More Effective Meetings
- Time Management Tips #13 - Just Start
- Time Management Tips # 12 - Do Something Small
- Positive Intelligence at Microsoft
- Time Management Tips # 11 - 30 Day Sprints
- Time Management Tips # 10 - Set Limits
- Embrace the Effort and Expand What You’re Capable Of
- Time Management Tips #9 - Pair Up
- The First 11 Employees of Microsoft
- Time Management Tips #8 - Power Up with Purpose
- Time Management Tips #7 – Friday Reflection
- Rebranding
- Time Management Tips #6 - Schedule the Big Rocks
- Time Management Tips #5 - Reduce the Friction in Your Day
- Stephen Covey Quotes
- Asian Efficiency on Agile Results
- Time Management Tips #3 - Three Wins for the Week
- The Book that Changes Lives
- How To Get Your Groove Back On
- Time Management Tips #2 - Add Creative Hours
- Personal Growth: 30 Days of Free Training for Getting Results in Work and Life
- The Values, Principles, and Practices of Agile Results
- Stephen Covey Tribute
- Quotes to Empower You for Work and Life
- Project Management, Productivity, and Leadership for Unstoppable You
- Team of Leaders
- Decision Making Article Roundup
- The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives that Make You Feel Alive
- Personal Development Resources at Sources of Insight
- To Do Doing Done
- How To Create a Six-Figure Second Income
- Project Management Quotes
- Intelligence is More Than IQ
- 10 Ways to Use Evernote More Effectively
- Quotes for Moving On
- The Sticky Note Method for Rapid Reading
- How To Make Decisions
- Leadership is Who You Are
- Kanban: The Secret of High-Performing Teams at Microsoft
- Monthly Burn Rate
- 10 Free Leadership Tools for Work and Life
- How To Live Your Values at Microsoft
- Presenting Numbers with Skill
- Spend $100 to Prioritize Your Opportunities
- Value is the Short-Cut for Building Better Products
- Make the Most of What You’ve Got: Articles on Personal Development, Time Management, Life Hacks, and More
- Outsourcing with Skill: Three Types of Outsourcing Relationships
- How Tos for Personal Development, Leadership, and More
- Weekly Outcomes: The Simple Weekly Planner
- Top Blogs for Insight and Action
- Top Blogs Lists
- Crucial Conversations at Microsoft
- Best-Selling Author on Mental Toughness
- Business Books
- Health Books
- Find Your Strengths Path to Accelerate Learning and Growth
- David Zinger Interviews Me on Getting Results the Agile Way
- Expert Access Radio Interview on Getting Results the Agile Way
- Life Lessons from the Legend of Zelda
- 200,000 Served: Getting Results the Agile Way Continues to Grow
- Agile Methodology in Microsoft patterns & practices
- 30 Days of Getting Results Revisited
- Agile Results: It Works for Teams and Leaders Too
- Spirit Magazine Mentions Getting Results the Agile Way
- Agile Results in Russian
- Idea to Done: How I Use a Personal Kanban for Getting Results
- Getting Results Site Redesign
- Office 365 Links and Resources
- Portfolio Management
- Happy Valentine’s Day
- Scale Things Down so You Actually Do Them
- Simplified Home Page for Getting Results the Agile Way
- Drive Your Week with Skill
- Ability to Execute
- ITIL Stages, Processes, and Sub-Processes
- Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Framework
- 30 Days of Getting Results - Free Time-Management Training
- Getting Results the Agile Way - Top 10 Best Seller on Amazon in Time-Management
- 10 Things Great Managers Do
- Connecting Business and IT
- Nailing Your Goals for 2012
2011 102
- Getting Ready for 2012
- Goals and Your New Year's Resolution
- Making Sure Your Life Energy is Well Spent
- 30 Day Improvement Sprints Revisited
- Leadership Books Sweep
- Leadership Quotes
- Best Business Books List
- Now Available: 30 Days of Getting Results Free eBook
- A Map for the Microsoft Application Development Platform
- Pattern Templates
- Monthly Planning with Agile Results
- Simplified Site and Knowledge Base for Getting Results the Agile Way
- Meaningful Work
- Friday Links 2011-11-11
- Sticky Stuff–Information at Your Fingertips in Outlook 2010
- Carve Out Time for What’s Important
- 5 Questions for Capability and Capacity of High-Performing Teams
- 30 Day Boot Camp for Getting Results: Free Time Management Training for Achievers
- Getting Started with Getting Results Free eBook
- Press Release for Getting Results the Agile Way on Kindle
- Friday Links 2011-10-28
- Program Management Tip - Save Time by Working on What Actually Counts
- Personal Development Books Revisited
- Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
- Personal Development Lessons Learned from Jariek Robbins
- Life Quotes
- What is the Meaning of Life
- Sources of Insight is Available on the Kindle
- IT Drivers for the Cloud
- Business Scenarios for the Cloud
- Create New Revenue Streams from Existing Capabilities
- Achieve Cost-Effective Business Continuity
- Why Some Companies Execute Better
- Move to the Cloud, Use the Cloud, or Be the Cloud
- 25 Strategies for Getting Results
- Friday Links 08-26-2011
- Choosing Where to Invest–Technical Uncertainty vs. Market Uncertainty
- Friday Links 08-19-2011
- .NET Rocks Interview on Getting Results the Agile Way
- Tim Kropp on Getting Results the Agile Way
- Sample Application for .NET 4.0 - Layered Architecture and DDD Patterns Sample Applications
- Double-Loop Learning and How Agile Approaches Change the Game to Thrive in Times of Change
- Where the Focus Goes
- Inspirational Quotes
- Friday Links 07-22-2011
- One-Man Band vs. Pairing Up On Problems
- Video–Ed Jezierski on Getting Results the Agile Way
- Elevator Pitches for Projects
- Getting Results the Agile Way on Stepcase Lifehack
- Friday Links 07-15-2011
- If You Can Differentiate, You Have a Competitive Monopoly
- Brand is the Ultimate Differentiator
- The Changing Landscape of Competitive Advantage
- The Four Gears of Competitive Advantage
- Models for Competitive Advantage
- Focus on One of Three Value Disciplines for Competitive Success
- Unbundle Your Business for Business Agility
- Organizing, Reading, and Writing Information Faster
- Motivation Techniques and Motivation Theories
- Wingman Pattern: Filters and Priorities
- Weekly Reminders for Changing Your Habits and Adopting New Practices
- Friday Links 07-08-2010
- Interpersonal Skills Books
- Best Books to Read on Personal Development
- Structuring Your Personal Backlog to Make Things Happen
- Why Teams Fail
- Quick Tips on Work Breakdown Structures
- What is Agile Results?
- Email Therapy
- Focus is the Key to Success at Microsoft
- How To–Design Your Week with Skill
- How To–Achieve Peaceful Calm
- Performance Review Template
- Portfolios, Programs, and Projects
- Leadership Checklist
- Visualizing Roadmaps for Execution Excellence
- How To Set Goals and Achieve Them
- Underutilized
- Time Management Checklist
- How To Use Getting Results the Agile Way with Evernote
- Windows Azure Whitepapers Roundup
- What Am I Doing on the Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Team
- Cloud Scenarios Hub on TechNet
- How Microsoft IT Does Cloud Computing
- MSDN Library Home Adds Quick Links
- Adam Grocholski on Timeboxing
- Benefits Realization Over ROI
- Change is Good
- Reference Models, Reference Architectures, and Reference Implementations
- Six Steps for Enterprise Architecture as Strategy
- My Arm’s Broke, Fix Me - Three Levels of Guidance in patterns & practices
- Anu on Getting Results the Agile Way
- Product Success Frame for High Customer Impact
- Scenario Scoreboards for Testing Your Product Success
- Evaluation Criteria Example
- Test-Driven Product Design
- Methodologies at a Glance
- Lessons Learned from Bill Gates
- Just Enough
- Guidance Product Model for Domain “X”
- You Against Your Lists
- Lessons Learned in Execution
2010 132
- Top Posts of 2010
- Trends for 2011
- Windows Phone 7 Developer Guidance Map v2.0
- Now Available: Windows 7 Phone Guide
- Personal Development Books List
- Leadership Blogs
- Windows Azure How-Tos Index
- Leadership Books A-Z
- Great Books, Great People, Great Quotes
- MSDN Library Home Mockup to Simplify Finding the Product Docs
- Pragmatic Patterns
- Alik Levin on Getting Results
- Visuals for Getting Results the Agile Way
- Customer-Connected Engineering (CCE)
- Developer Guidance Maps Roundup for ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Azure and Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Developer Guidance Map
- ADO.NET Developer Guidance Map
- Windows Azure Developer Guidance Map
- Code Sample Collections Roundup for ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WCF, Windows Azure, and Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Code Samples Collection
- Windows Azure Code Samples Collection
- WCF Code Samples Collection
- Silverlight Code Samples Collection
- ASP.NET Code Samples Collection
- ADO.NET Code Samples Collection
- Scenario Maps Roundup for ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WCF, Windows Azure, and Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Scenarios Map
- Windows Azure Scenarios Map
- WCF Scenarios Map
- Silverlight Scenarios Map
- ASP.NET Scenarios Map
- Microsoft Application Platform at a Glance
- ADO.NET Scenarios Map
- 5 Keys to Effective Scenario Maps
- Silverlight Developer Guidance Map
- How To Create a patterns & practices Team
- Press Release for Getting Results the Agile Way
- Principles and Values Define a Culture
- ASP.NET Developer Guidance Map
- Training for Getting Results the Agile Way
- 40 Hour Work Week at Microsoft
- Getting Results Knowledge Base Unleashed
- How To Adopt Getting Results the Agile Way
- Value is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Slides for Getting Results the Agile Way
- Developer Guidance IA at a Glance
- Getting Started, Solve-a-Problem, and Arch-and-Design
- Why Agile Results Works for Getting Results
- Silverlight Videos Map
- Microsoft Developer Guidance Maps
- Code Sample Types
- Simple IA
- 3 Flavors of Information Architecture
- Windows Azure Application Patterns
- Windows Azure App Types
- Windows Azure Security Notes Posted to the Security TechCenter
- MSDN Developer Centers at a Glance
- Gartner Shares 10 Ways the World of Work will Change
- A Little Laughter Goes a Long Way
- The Results Frame
- 10 Strategies for Improving Results
- Now Available: patterns & practices Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET
- The Design of the MSDN Hub Pages
- Employee Engagement on Getting Results the Agile Way
- 30 Days of Productivity and Getting Results the Agile Way
- Results, Social, and Process Lens for Organizational Culture
- Patterns and Practices for Improving Personal Productivity, Time Management, and Effectiveness
- Expert Reviews Using Heuristic Evaluation
- Paper Prototypes Over Computer-Based Tools
- Site Maps, Storyboards, and Schematics for Site Design
- Information Architecture, Navigation Design, and Graphic Design
- Success Patterns for Web Sites
- Now Available: Windows Azure Security Notes PDF
- CRUD for Content
- Slides for The Rule of 3, Hot Spots, and Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection
- Project Plans in a Nutshell
- Application Types (App Types) – The Early Years
- Cloud Security Threats and Countermeasures at a Glance
- Success Pattern for V-Teams
- Types of Scenario Tools
- Workshop Planning Framework – The Six P’s
- SQL Azure Partitioning Pattern
- Now Available: Microsoft Windows Azure Guide
- Azure Canonical Application Architecture
- patterns & practices Catalog By Year
- Key Questions for a PM at patterns & practices
- Now Available: Layered Architecture Sample for .NET 4.0
- How To Enable SSL on Windows Azure
- The patterns & practices Way
- Lessons from Ed On Software Architecture
- Be the Author of Your Life and Write Your Story Forward
- patterns & practices Performance Guidance Roundup
- Don’t Let the Big Get in the Way of the Small
- Artificial Critical Paths
- patterns & practices Security Guidance Roundup
- Foreword for Getting Results by Michael Kropp
- Greatness Distilled – Lessons Learned from Leaders
- REST with ACS
- WCF Security Scenarios on Azure
- ASP.NET Security Scenarios on Azure
- Windows IA (Information Architecture)
- Now Available - The Second Batch of Enterprise Library 5.0
- The Agile Way
- What's Going on with Getting Results the Agile Way -- The Book?
- Seth Godin Lessons Learned
- Finding Your Strengths
- New Release: Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0
- patterns & practices Catalog at a Glance
- Best Practices on the patterns & practices Team
- Why Agile Results?
- Extreme Programming (XP) at a Glance
- Scrum Flow at a Glance
- 7 Management Interventions for Adapting and Adopting Processes
- Ralph Stacey’s Agreement and Certainty Matrix
- The Four Circles of XP (Extreme Programming)
- How To Use ASP.NET Forms Auth with SQL Server on Windows Azure
- How To Use ASP.NET Forms Auth with Roles in Azure Tables
- Cheat Sheet – Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection Pattern
- How To Use ASP.NET Forms Auth with Azure Tables
- Getting Started with Windows Azure
- Getting Results Knowledge Base
- The Power of Blue Books for Platform Impact
- Getting Results Fan Page Now Available
- Getting Results the Agile Way - The Book on Getting Results
- Agile Security Engineering
- VMs for Web and Worker Roles in Windows Azure
- Windows Azure Platform at a Glance
- Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Visual Model of Cloud Computing
- Cloud Defined
- Mapping Out the Microsoft Application Platform at a Glance
- Career Growth
2009 79
- Lessons in Software from Eric Brechner
- Now Available: Final PDF of the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition
- Patterns and Practices for Distributed Teams
- Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book
- 10 Years at patterns & practices
- Security Mental Model for Azure
- Experience-Driven Development
- The Power of Patterns and Practices
- Sources of Insight is One Year Old
- Time Management Quotes
- Cloud Security Frame
- What’s Your Favorite Thinking Technique?
- Cloud Security Survey Results
- Communication Isn’t the Only Source of Conflict
- patterns & practices Assets Survey
- A Language for Your Strengths
- Cloud Security Survey
- Top 10 Lessons in Happiness
- How To Be a Successful Individual Contributor at Microsoft
- Discover the How to Your Why
- Lessons in Software from Mike de Libero
- PM Skills for Life
- Discover Your Why
- Lessons in Software from James Waletzky
- Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee
- Acceptance Test Engineering Guide Beta 2 Now Available
- Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava
- Six Sources of Influence
- Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development
- Lean Software Development
- Influencer - The Power to Change Anything
- Productivity Personas
- Dr. K on How To Design a Fulfilling Life
- Lessons Learned in patterns and practices
- Dr. K on Top 10 Lessons in Interpersonal Skills
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- ASP.NET 2.0 Security Scenarios and Solutions
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