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Simple is better than complicated

Wide is better than deep

Flatten nesting where possible

Standards equal success

Incremental delivery coupled with XP methods, means software on target and on quality

Fewer well made features are better then many buggy ones

A good demo beats a long document

The Art of Lightning
Who says that Microsoft doesn't have a sense of humor?James Zimmerman5/14/2008

Here's my team at Microsoft's EULA

Microsoft Corporation
Enterprise Services and Business Processes
Team Mongoose

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