One of the first posts I ever made as a blogger was entitled Is blogging the newest member of the Extreme Programming methodology? and after that I started thinking a bit more on the impact blogging has had on the development community and process.

I decided it would be interesting to hear what established bloggers had to say on the subject so I set out to find some bloggers to ask. I wanted to approach bloggers whom I follow and respect for their work, and ask if they wanted to participate so I pulled up the list of blogs I’m following.

After picking a selection from a (too) long list of bloggers, I’m subscribed to, I sent out the initial request and proceeded to work on the questions. By the time they were done I had gotten back the replies and the final result was amazing.

The following people will be participating

• Johan Lindfors (Microsoft)
• Beth Massi (Microsoft)
• Phil Haack (Microsoft)
• Jeffrey Palermo (Headsprings Systems)
• Rob Conery (Microsoft)
• Frans Bouma (Solutions Design b.v.)
• Sara Ford (Microsoft)
• Robert Folkesson (Microsoft)

They have all been given the same questionnaire and the result will be posted in individual posts, each being released on a different dates. I will update this thread with the link to the interviews (they will of course appear under the normal threads as well under the blogging tag as well) as they are published, so make sure to subscribe to my feed :-)

I hope you find their answers as interesting as I have and I would like to extend a huge Thank you! to all of them for helping me out with this!