Comment Feed for Channel 9 - FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/233911_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams Visual Studio Team Foundation Server contains a wealth of project data which can be mined to help software teams achieve better productivity. In this video, Brian Keller chats with Greg Smith and Mary Czerwinski about a Microsoft Research project called FASTDash. FASTDash is designed to help software development teams communicate and collaborate more effectively by providing a new way of viewing the source control tree. Tune in... en Sun, 19 May 2013 13:45:41 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 13:45:41 GMT Rev9 Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams posted by Ion Todirel

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950715670000000 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:19:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950715670000000 Ion Todirel Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams
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But what about when you are working on a function and as a reference you just hop to another file to see another functions implementation. I assume it will show up as if you are working on that function while you are only looking at it, I can imagine this could confuse some your co-workers.

Is it possible to use it over the internet? Lots of activity going on so if it uses allot of bandwidth, and how about security? Because using it in teams with people spread over different locations would be really useful.

Very cool concept and hope to see it in the next version of VS Smiley.

(btw, Wish I had a Microsoft Natural MultiMedia Keyboard Wink. I own a Natural Ergonomic 4000, but it's crap as I tend to push the space bar on the right en left top of the key. The space bar will then bend instead of go down. This is so annoying that I now use a Comfort Curve 2000.)

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950839690000000 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:46:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950839690000000 Ion Todirel Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams posted by T1Guy

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950846090000000 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:56:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950846090000000 Whoa Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams
Ion Todirel wrote:
hey Charles, what was in the right hand of Greg?


I don't know. I wasn't there. Brian will know. Or, better yet, Greg can tell you Smiley
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posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950850140000000 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:03:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950850140000000 Charles Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams
Are you building in metrics as to how many times a developer requests help and who responded to the request for help?

If so, are you tracking these metrics to the quality of the resulting code?

I loved the three monitor layout. They look like tablets. Are they?

While I hope it increases collaboration, I see micro-manager bosses monitoring the developers every move or key stroke. I see the potential for some real abuse.

Cool

posted by raymond

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I'm glad to see that MS is working on this kind of thing.

posted by Richard.Hein

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950953480000000 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:55:48 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632950953480000000 marycz Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams
Is  your team the same team that developed Visual Source Safe? If so, when was the decision made to drop VSS, and start development on FASTDash? Secondly, why did you decide to go with a completely different application, instead of developing VSS to the level of FASTDash?

Jonathan

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Ion Todirel wrote:
hey Charles, what was in the right hand of Greg?

posted by jsampsonPC

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Serendipity Rules! Cool

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mixelz wrote:
Nice video!

But what about when you are working on a function and as a reference you just hop to another file to see another functions implementation. I assume it will show up as if you are working on that function while you are only looking at it, I can imagine this could confuse some your co-workers.

Is it possible to use it over the internet? Lots of activity going on so if it uses allot of bandwidth, and how about security? Because using it in teams with people spread over different locations would be really useful.



We are able to detect when you're editing vs. just not editing, so we can reflect that in the vis. 

In our prototype we took advantage of the corporate network for security and used SQL Server.  But there's no reason it couldn't be re-designed as a web service for wider geographic dispersion if introducing a little more lag was acceptable.

posted by gregsmi

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posted by Toadkillerdog

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jsampsonPC wrote:
Mary,

Is  your team the same team that developed Visual Source Safe? If so, when was the decision made to drop VSS, and start development on FASTDash? Secondly, why did you decide to go with a completely different application, instead of developing VSS to the level of FASTDash?

Jonathan


VSS is a full-fledged source control system - FASTDash is a team-awareness visualization meant to work *on top* of a source control infrastructure, so we're not really trying to replace anything that's already there.  Improving and integrating the vis into an existing SCM solution would probably be a great progression - but we're in Research, not in the product teams, and there's still more research to do... Smiley

Greg Smith
MSR

posted by gregsmi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632951438400000000 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:24:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632951438400000000 gregsmi Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams
jsampsonPC wrote:
From the last couple of seconds in the video, it appears that Greg is in a wheelchair, and that the object in his right-hand it a mobility-assistance device of somesort. Either way, it is awesome to see that Greg is a successful developer. There is a web-developer in my city who is pretty well-known. He has a rather successful history of work here, and yet he doesn't write any code with his hands. He has a paralytic-condition which keeps him in a wheel-chair, and he actually writes code with an object attached to his head. He is amazing.

Ion Todirel wrote: hey Charles, what was in the right hand of Greg?


You're exactly right - it's my splint for typing...

posted by gregsmi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632951440810000000 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:28:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632951440810000000 gregsmi Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams
I wish I had a triple monitor setup at work...

posted by CRPietschmann

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632956623200000000 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:25:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c632956623200000000 CRPietschmann Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams

when and how can one download this program ?

Thank you

posted by pc152

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pc152 wrote:
Good video

when and how can one download this program ?

Thank you


Thank you for your interest! At this time what you're seeing is essentially some prototyping work being done by Microsoft Research. I talked to them recently and they are looking into ways that this may find its way into the product or as a standalone tool but so far there's no release plan just yet.

Brian Keller

posted by briankel

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c633076020720000000 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:01:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c633076020720000000 briankel Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams Is there any update on FASTDash?

Is there a plan to ship it with Orcas, Rosario or as a TFS Power Tool?

posted by BigDataDev

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c633189840960000000 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:41:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/FASTDash-A-Visual-Dashboard-for-Fostering-Awareness-in-Software-Teams#c633189840960000000 BigDataDev Re: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams
Thanks.
- alex

posted by quartzite7

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