I've just returned from Tech-Ed in Orlando and I just thought I'd post up my thoughts. We have seen Software Factories make appearances at Tech-Ed since 2005, but this year the story is way more complete To kick the week off we had a talk from Don Smith and Peter Provost from the Patterns & Practices team (Jack Greenfield was scheduled to make the talk) and this was a standing room only session not bad for the time slot directly after the keynote. Don delivered another talk on the Service Factory (again standing room only), then we finished the week with a talk from Jezz Santos and Edward Bakker followed up by a Q&A in the afternoon (featuring yours truly.... thanks Don :) )
So what's my take on all of this... well we have some great stories around Software Factories, sure we don't have all of the tooling yet, but you can start to build compelling factories today using GAT/GAX and DSL's. The sessions presented @ Tech-Ed rocked, they were very well presented and attended, plus some great questions were asked, this all points towards the fact that people are starting to 'get' software factories...
so I'll post more on this later as my head is somewhat jet lagged from travel at the weekend.... which I will lay most of the blame on the 9 hours I spent in JFK airport....