My blog was quite inactive for a while, and the primary reason is the fact that I find very little free time. Usually, the finish of the year is quite crowded by the work related tasks that are waiting to be finished.
Last week I attended a Microsoft Course, to be more specific “1846A - Microsoft Solutions Framework Essentials”. It was a great offer from Microsoft Romania, offer presented at MSDN Briefing this fall: the only two certified trainers in MSF are working for Microsoft, and they wanted to promote MSF in Romania, and the course was FREE. Yes, you've read correctly, three full days, for FREE. The typical fee for a course like this I've heard that is around 400-500 USD.
This course can be used in order to achieve the 70-301 exam, a brand new exam, that is for MSF 3.0, and replaces 70-300 exam.
The course was presented in the Microsoft Romania meeting room, in Bucharest. With this ocasion we could see (we were around 25 people) how is Microsoft Romania from inside. Just like you've heard: there are free beverages, but I couldn't find Coca Cola. Only Pepsi was present in the refrigerator. Maybe people at Microsoft Romania don't like Coca Cola, who knows.
Well after attending this course many things were clarified to me. The most important thing: you cannot have great products if the whole team doesn't agree on all the aspects. Actually this is the first rule of MSF: all team members (I'm talking about MSF team here) are equally important, and they must agree. If they don't agree, the project is a “No-go” without any doubt.