Interview with Blaine Wastell and Glen Block - Patterns and Practices - Microsoft
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Interviewees:Blaine Wastell and Glenn Block.
In this interview with Blaine Wastell and Glenn Block of the Patterns and Practices Group at Microsoft we asked them about:
- About the Patterns and Practices Group
- What makes them different from a typical product development group
- The software development methodology they use
- Some of the things that Patterns and Practices group has produced for developers.
- The role of CodePlex for their group.
Blaine: I’m Blaine Wastell. I’m a program manager in patterns & practices, and I’ve been in this role for a little over four years now. Most recently my focus has been in what we call the “client UX program”. It’s about providing guidance to customers on developing both smart client and web client applications.
For 12 years before Microsoft I was out in the consulting world helping business customers develop enterprise line of business applications, mainly Web applications.

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