Testing in the modern application lifecycle
Manual Testing in this new age of the modern application lifecycle has taken on new complexities that make it even more difficult to track and identify which tests are passing, which are failing and to which environment that data should be associated. Update 2013-02-19 – Featured in ALM Mag Vol 1 Issue 2. If you want to subscribe […]
Visual Studio 2012 RTM available & installed
With the availability of Visual Studio 2012 RTM today on MSDN I wanted to let you know that Northwest Cadence just completed its first Production RTM installation for a customer. Do not fear this upgrade. If you are moving from TFS 2010 this is a simple upgrade although there are many new features and a […]
Deploy from Visual Studio 2012 to iOS, Windows Phone, Android and Windows
Today I saw a demonstration by ITR Mobility of their line of business application support for having one code base, written in C# that can be deployed to practically any platform you like. Does that should like it would be of use to you? Coz it sure as hell sounds like I could use it. […]
What’s in a burndown?
I was recently in Park City, Utah to teach the Professional Scrum Foundations course and i just got an email from one of the students. As I want to help everyone I will answer here: If I recall from our training, you suggested teams could burn down their sprints using points or hours. In your […]
Professional Scrum Foundations in Salt Lake City, Utah
This week I have been filling in for David Starr at a customer and it has been an experience. David had a family emergency and tapped me of all people to take the gig from him. So not only did Northwest Cadence have to rearrange my schedule to make sure that I could do this, […]
Do you have MSDN at work? Use Visual Studio Ultimate for free at home?
Are you a professional developer? Do you get an MSDN from your organisation? Did you know that you can use it at home on both commercial and open source projects of your own!
Is ALM a useful term?
I was asked this question by Robert Myers for a “paper” and I think that it is an important one. I started to answer in that little textbox that LinkedIn give you and I got a little carried away. I guess I am an writing mode >>Do you think ALM is a useful term? Yes, […]
Announcing Visual Studio 11 Beta will launch on February 29th
Its that time again where the Visual Studio and team Foundation Server teams are pushing out their next version of their tools, Visual Studio 11. Steven & Lori Borg teamed up to present a video on why you would want to Go-Live with Visual Studio 11. I used the Go-Live with many companies with the […]
Are you doing Scrum? Find out with a Scrum Health Check!
I posted before about how you know that you are doing Scrum, or not, but how do you! This is something that has been banded about both in the Scrum.org community and within Northwest Cadence for a while and we have come to the conclusion that we need to check! There are many reasons for […]
Introduction to Visual Studio 11
Over on the Northwest Cadence blog we are doing a big push on Visual Studio 11 (dev11) content. I and my colleagues will be delivering content on Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server & Visual Studio Team Foundation Service (AKA TFS Preview). I have been concentrating on the hosted (azure) version of […]