Microsoft and MetaCase Co-Organize 2nd Agile DSM Workshop 

MetaCase and Microsoft will co-organize the 2nd International Workshop on Agile Development with Domain-Specific Languages at XP 2006 in Finland in June. The first workshop was held last year in the UK, after Microsoft's Alan Cameron Wills approached MetaCase CTO Steven Kelly with the suggestion of a joint workshop. The result was a great success, with the 25 participants including top names from the world of Agile Development.

The workshop will focus on how Domain-Specific Languages can form the most agile of approaches to software development, and how tools such as MetaCase's MetaEdit+ and Microsoft's forthcoming Visual Studio Team System DSL Tools allow teams to develop support for Domain-Specific Modeling in a fraction of the time previously required.

Co-organizing these workshops is a natural progression from the previous co-operation between MetaCase and Microsoft. MetaCase's workshops at OOPSLA, the central annual DSM event, have regularly been attended by leading Microsoft figures such as Jack Greenfield, Steve Cook and Stuart Kent - authors of Microsoft's "Software Factories" book and strategy. Microsoft were also the first party MetaCase contacted when founding the DSM Forum, where together with other leading DSM tool providers they work to promote DSM and mutual co-operation between vendors.