Do you know that every user story should have an owner?
When you are building complicated software and working with customers it is always nice for them to have some idea on who to speak to about a particular story during a sprint. Update 14th April 2010 Rule added to Rules to better Scrum with TFS In order to achieve this one of the Team takes […]
Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 2 – For the record
At SSW we have always done Agile. Recently we have started doing Scrum and we have nearly completed our first Sprint ever using Scrum. As you probably guessed from my previous post, it looks like it is going to be a “Failed Sprint”, but the Scrum Team (This includes the ScrumMaster and the Product Owner) […]
Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 1 – The failed Sprint
I recently had a conversation with a product owner that wanted to have the Scrum team broken up into smaller units so that less time was wasted on the Scrum Ceremonies! Their complaint was around the need in Scrum to have the entire “Team” (7+-2) involved in the sizing of the work during the “Sprint […]
Head First Design Patterns
Over the last month I have been reading Head First Design Patterns. This an excellent book and I only wish that all tech books used some of the principals of learning that are contained in it. As Jeff Attwood has noted there are some problems with the content of this book, but the thing that […]
Does test-driven development speed up development?
If only I could be as eloquent as Scott. His recent post on “Does test-driven development speed up development?” really gets to the crux of an endemic problem in the Software Development industry, especially in companies for whom Software Development is not their core business. Test-driven development decreases complexity, improves the incremental adaptability that software […]
SharePoint Solutions Rant
<Rant> There needs to be a way to easily build MOSS Solutions in Visual Studio. I know that there are a bunch of bits and pieces available form Microsoft and third parties, but I want an end to end solution. You should be able to create a SharePoint “Solution” in Visual Studio. Then Add […]
Developing for SharePoint on your local computer
If you are wanting to developer solutions for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008 then you need a couple of things to get started: You will need to install VSeWSS 1.1. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/02/11/announcing-the-final-release-of-vsewss-1-1-and-the-upcoming-version-1-2.aspx Then follow the instructions on Martin Vollmer`s Blog in his post on getting it installed without Sharepoint. http://blogs.msdn.com/martinv/archive/2008/03/19/new-registry-file-for-developing-moss2007-projects-in-a-workstation-xp-or-vista.aspx And to get workflow working you […]
Creating a SharePoint Solution
Over the next few weeks I will be blogging my escapades in developing an application solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. I have entitled the application “MOSS Time Off Management” and it will be up on CodePlex for all to follow @ http://www.codeplex.com/mosstom (coming soon). The idea behind this application is twofold: First to give […]
Assembly Version does not change in Visual Basic Workflow projects
If you are having an issue with the assembly version in your compiled assembly not updating after a rebuild then you are not alone. The is a bug in the Visual Basic compiler that causes this problem and it requires a manual fix: http://kbalertz.com/952628/Assembly-Version-change-Visual-Basic-Workflow-projects.aspx Not hard, but annoying… To check the problem, double click on […]
Bug in ObservableCollection?
I seam to be having a little problem. Now, this may be me being stupid, but I can’t get an ObservableCollection to work if you pass it a generic type! For example, consider the following code: Public Class ItemBitCollection(Of TItem) Inherits ObservableCollection(Of ItemBit(Of TItem)) End Class Public Class ItemBit(Of TItem) Private m_item As TItem End […]