2 weeks ago, Francois and I were attending the Patterns and Practices Summit conference that was held in Quebec City.

Let me say that the presentations were really nice, and I would not hesitate to go again. This was a unique chance to have go out and meet some great minds in our industry and challenge some of nVentive's ideas with them.

This is the list of all of the sessions and the ones that particularly struck us (in no particular order) :

• Decrease Coupling and Raise Cohesion - Mario Cardinal
• Designing for Operations - David Aiken
• Empirical Evidence of Agile Methods - Grigori Melnik
• Evolving Client Architecture - Billy Hollis
• Future of patterns & practices - Don Smith
• KeyNote (Internals of the VS.NET team) - Brian Harry

We'll be integrating a few of the ideas we learned in these sessions into our teams, and we'll let blog on them as we see success out of them.