Martin Granell, a senior consultant for Australian-based Microsoft enterprise consultancy and training company Readify, will be speaking at TechED in Boston this week about how moderate developers can build high-quality software using a variety of Microsoft development tools.

"I'll be talking and demonstrating an integrated software factory, using tools such as the DSL Tools (Domain Specific Languages), GAT (Guidance Automation Toolkit), TFS and FxCop, and showing how to evolve a factory in parallel with the development project," he said.

Granell said he will detail four projects where he and team members attempted to build high-quality, self-sufficient software factories, which were adaptive to changes in staff, requirements and budget. The four projects were all in different environments: government, an industry body, private sector enterprise and an independent software developer.

"I will show how the people, processes, frameworks and tools produced some effective, and some not-so-effective development environments. I will outline the lessons learned, and how we would approach those projects again, using technology such as VSTS, Team Foundation Server, and the Microsoft Software Factory initiative," he said.

One of the lessons Granell said he has learnt, is that it is important for the development team to "own" the process.