J.D. Meier

Created and lead the Book of Dreams program at Microsoft to help business leaders dream up their digital future and then create it using a simple framework for vision, value, and solutions that link strategy with execution in an Agile way.

The Book of Dreams is both a Digital Transformation Framework as well as a series of playbooks to help business leaders reimagine the future, create a roadmap to get there, and accelerate business value along the way.

I’ve had the privilege and… Show more

Created and lead the Book of Dreams program at Microsoft to help business leaders dream up their digital future and then create it using a simple framework for vision, value, and solutions that link strategy with execution in an Agile way.

The Book of Dreams is both a Digital Transformation Framework as well as a series of playbooks to help business leaders reimagine the future, create a roadmap to get there, and accelerate business value along the way.

I’ve had the privilege and pleasure of creating Books of Dreams with experts around the world for the following industries, technologies, and business personas:

1. AI Book of Dreams
2. Airlines Book of Dreams
3. Automotive Book of Dreams
4. Banking Book of Dreams
5. Blockchain Book of Dreams
6. CFO Book of Dreams
7. CIO Book of Dreams
8. CINO (Chief Innovation Officer) Book of Dreams
9. CISO Book of Dreams
10. Citizen Services Book of Dreams
11. CityNext Book of Dreams
12. CMO Book of Dreams
13. COO Book of Dreams
14. Consumer Electronics Book of Dreams
15. Consumer Goods Book of Dreams
16. Education Book of Dreams
17. Healthcare Book of Dreams
18. HR Book of Dreams
19. Insurance Book of Dreams
20. Manufacturing Book of Dreams
21. Media Book of Dreams
22. Mining Book of Dreams
23. Mixed Reality Book of Dreams
24. Modern Book of Dreams
25. Oil & Gas Book of Dreams
26. Retail Book of Dreams
27. Smart Spaces Book of Dreams
28. Sports Book of Dreams
29. Telco Book of Dreams
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Windows Azure Security Notes (PDF) is a collection of our notes and learnings from exploring the cloud security space and working through Windows Azure security scenarios. Note that this is not a guide and it’s not a Microsoft patterns & practices deliverable. It’s simply a way to package up, hand-off, and share what we learned during the exploration stage of our patterns & practices Windows Azure Security Guidance project.

In Getting Results the Agile Way, author J.D. Meier introduces Agile Results®-a simple system for meaningful results! It's a systematic way to achieve both short- and long-term results in all aspects of your life-from work to fun. It offers just enough planning to get you going, but makes it easy to change your course as needed. It also provides fresh starts for your day, week, month, and year. Even if you already use another time management system, Agile Results can supplement it to increase… Show more

In Getting Results the Agile Way, author J.D. Meier introduces Agile Results®-a simple system for meaningful results! It's a systematic way to achieve both short- and long-term results in all aspects of your life-from work to fun. It offers just enough planning to get you going, but makes it easy to change your course as needed. It also provides fresh starts for your day, week, month, and year. Even if you already use another time management system, Agile Results can supplement it to increase your impact and sense of fulfillment. Show less

Get the definitive guide on designing applications on the Microsoft application platform—straight from the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Learn how to choose the most appropriate architecture and the best implementation technologies that the Microsoft application platform offers applications developers. Get critical design recommendations and guidelines organized by application type—from Web, mobile, and rich Internet applications to Office Business Applications. You’ll also get links to… Show more

Get the definitive guide on designing applications on the Microsoft application platform—straight from the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Learn how to choose the most appropriate architecture and the best implementation technologies that the Microsoft application platform offers applications developers. Get critical design recommendations and guidelines organized by application type—from Web, mobile, and rich Internet applications to Office Business Applications. You’ll also get links to additional technical resources that can help with your application development Show less

It's the "Microsoft playbook for application architecture." This is our guide to help solution architects and developers make the most of the Microsoft platform. It's a distillation of many lessons learned. It’s principle-based and pattern-oriented to provide a durable, evolvable backdrop for application architecture. It's a collaborative effort among product team members, field, industry experts, MVPs, and customers.

Using end-to-end application scenarios, this guide shows you how to design and implement authentication and authorization in WCF. You will learn how to improve the security of your WCF services through prescriptive guidance including guidelines, a Q&A, practices at a glance, and step-by-step how to articles. The guide is the result of a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, WCF team members, and industry experts.

This guide covers Microsoft's recommended approach for implementing performance testing for Web applications. These provide steps for managing and conducting performance testing. For simplification and tangible results, they are broken down into activities with inputs, outputs, and steps. You can use the steps as a baseline or to help you evolve your own process. The performance-testing approach used in this guide consists of the following activities as shown in the figure:

This guide shows you how to make the most of Team Foundation Server. It starts with the end in mind, but shows you how to incrementally adopt TFS for your organization. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, Team System team members, and industry experts.

To meet your application security objectives, you must integrate security into your application development life cycle. You can do so by including specific security-related activities in your current software engineering processes. These activities include identifying security objectives, applying secure design guidelines, patterns, and principles, creating threat models, conducting architecture and design reviews for security, performing regular code reviews for security, testing for security,… Show more

To meet your application security objectives, you must integrate security into your application development life cycle. You can do so by including specific security-related activities in your current software engineering processes. These activities include identifying security objectives, applying secure design guidelines, patterns, and principles, creating threat models, conducting architecture and design reviews for security, performing regular code reviews for security, testing for security, and conducting deployment reviews to ensure secure configuration. Show less

This guide provides end-to-end guidance for managing performance and scalability throughout your application life cycle to reduce risk and lower total cost of ownership. It provides a framework that organizes performance into a handful of prioritized categories where your choices heavily impact performance and scalability success. The logical units of the framework help integrate performance throughout your application life cycle. Information is segmented by roles, including architects… Show more

This guide provides end-to-end guidance for managing performance and scalability throughout your application life cycle to reduce risk and lower total cost of ownership. It provides a framework that organizes performance into a handful of prioritized categories where your choices heavily impact performance and scalability success. The logical units of the framework help integrate performance throughout your application life cycle. Information is segmented by roles, including architects, developers, testers, and administrators, to make it more relevant and actionable. This guide provides processes and actionable steps for modeling performance, measuring, testing, and tuning your applications. Expert guidance is also provided for improving the performance of managed code, ASP.NET, Enterprise Services, Web services, remoting, ADO.NET, XML, and SQL Server. Show less

This guide gives you a solid foundation for designing, building, and configuring secure ASP.NET Web applications. Whether you have existing applications or are building new ones, you can apply the guidance to help you make sure that your Web applications are hack-resilient.

This guide presents a practical, scenario driven approach to designing and building secure ASP.NET applications for Windows 2000 and version 1.0 of the .NET Framework. It focuses on the key elements of authentication, authorization, and secure communication within and across the tiers of distributed .NET Web applications. (This roadmap: 6 printed pages; the entire guide: 608 printed pages)

A collection of writings on high-performance / high-performance teams

Shared learnings about creating a digital culture, based on what I’ve seen from companies around the world

An article to answer the question “Why invest in prescriptive guidance for platform impact?”

An article to show you the secrets of winning customers success and platform
adoption through prescriptive guidance.