I am Joining the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Team
I am delighted to announce I am joining Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in Visual Studio ALM. This comes after long discussions with many great thinkers at Microsoft about the future of agility, software development, and the tooling that can best support it.
I am honored to have been selected to join the Visual Studio team and I look forward to helping deliver features that improve life for Microsoft developers. This is an exciting time in Microsoft?s evolution as any reading of industry news will show and I eagerly anticipate being a small part of that future.
If I do my job well, readers of this blog will know it and I look forward to your opinions on the features I will work to deliver to you.
On Departing Scrum.org
This was not an easy or quick decision. I am thrilled to have spent this last year working with Ken Schwaber, Alex Armstrong, and a talented cast of hundreds at Scrum.org. I leave my position as Chief Software Craftsman with satisfaction knowing our work has genuinely improved our customer?s and partner?s lives as they seek to improve their professional environments and increase their agility.
ADDITION: Read the official Scrum.org announcement here.
I am a huge fan of Scrum.org and the work they do. I wish Ken and the other Scrum.org employees the best success. They have my fullest support in their efforts.
Further, I look forward to an ongoing relationship with Scrum.org and the network of professionals there. They are committed group with a laudable mission. I am proud to work with them and look forward to our continued relationship.
I will continue supporting the Professional Scrum Foundations course, which I authored for Scrum.org, and the trainers who use it to teach Scrum. Supporting that community and staying relevant to that conversation remains a high priority for me.
Next Steps
My family and I are furiously preparing for our next big adventure. We are leaving Boise, Idaho for the bigger and wetter climes of the Puget Sound area and Redmond, Washington. Things will be happening fast as we hope to have the kids start school in the Redmond area in September.
I will be blogging more. Period. I have missed blogging, but I haven?t been motivated to blog much about process. Now that I am getting back to the metal, that will change.
I am thrilled to be coming back to my tribe, which has always been more about tech than not. Frankly, I have missed shipping software and working in teams that do so. I am excited to re-focus on the agile development experience and spend less time in executive-level ?convincing them that agile isn?t ridiculous? conversations. Those are important and necessary conversations. I am glad people better suited to them will be helping those folks.
I am honored to have been selected to join the Visual Studio team at Microsoft and look forward to making the world better for Microsoft platform developers.
Wow – congrats Dave, that’s great news!
Awesome David! I am sure you are excited to start the next chapter in your life. Don’t be a stranger. When you come back to the Boise area, be sure to stop and say hello.
Congratulations! I’m looking forward to having you in nearby. Looking forward to the good discussions. First set of beers is on me.
Good news! I’ve seen some of your presentations at TechEd lately and I’m looking forward to see the results of you working at Microsoft.
And please! More blogs 🙂
Congratulations David.
I’m looking forward to see how you’ll be able to turn the Visual Studio ship into the right direction.
Great news, congratulations!
Congratulations, David! I look forward to reading more of your thoughts from inside the mothership.
Congratulations David. Another exceptional ALM MVP moving to PG:-)
That’s awesome … Congratulations !!!
Good luck with your new role David. Thanks for helping Scrum Indonesia. It was nice working with you.
Congratulations Dave. That sounds like a fantastic opportunity. You will be great at it..
I am so excited to have David joining our team. His industry experience and passion for agile development is going to be an amazing addition to our team. Welcome aboard David!
Congradulations David!
The upside is you won’t have to badger Peter Provost now for changes in the tooling? (re: Episode 49 of Talking Shop Down Under podcast: http://www.talkingshopdownunder.com/2011/03/episode-49-david-starr-on-bdd.html ) The downside is, as senior program manager, you become the one to badger! 🙂 Best of success!
Are you ready for this? I am working for Peter 🙂
Congrats! Once you’ve arrived in town, lets go grab a beer or two.
LOL! So you won’t have to be “talking to Peter’s picture on the whiteboard”. (re your commentary in talking shop down under podcast)
Hope your new position allows you to maintain community presence… aka podcasts like Talking Shop Down Under (where I first started to ‘get’ BDD), your PluralSight courses, presentations like you did at CodeMash and Agile in Columbus, etc. Great to get to meet you at CodeMash earlier this year.
Again, congrats!
Wow, congrats! Welcome aboard!
I’m looking forward to seeing you locally. Figures you join VS just after I leave it though. 🙂
I just realized something – great software guys are a quantum phenomenon, and you’ve hit the Boise exclusion principle. Karl Shifflet moved out there, so you got bumped up to a higher energy level and are moving here.
Ok, that was a lot funnier in my head. 🙂
Congratulations David, great news! We missed a ALM MVP Collegue, but got new ALM Product team mate at Microsoft 🙂 Good luck and looking forward to congratulate you in person next time in SEATTLE.
That was awesome.
Congrats Dave!!!!
Well, this sucks for Boise, loosing another one, but I am very happy for you. Hopefully we can have a beer before you ship off.
Congrats and welcome!
Buck
Ohhh noooo, so sorry to hear you accepted a job at Micro$uck. Their employee rating system is horrific. Even if your whole team is fantastic, someone, by Micro$uck law, MUST be rated horrible. And once rated horrible, that person’s future at Micro$uck is little to none.
Do your research next time before accepting a job somewhere. I thought this was common knowledge about Micro$uck, but apparently not. I would never work at that hellhole.
Congrats. I’m a tech podcast junkie and so I’ve been listening to your stuff for a while now. I work in building 41 as well (newly transferred from MSDN). Very happy to have the likes of yourself on board. You have alot to offer here and I’m looking forward to meeting you!