Scrum with Visual Studio 11 – Creating a new Team Project
Creating a Team Project in the cloud could be daunting, but it is very simple. Just fire up your web browser and you can be up an running asynchronously in no time. [wpvideo 7j9ZdEQ8] Video: Scrum with dev11 – Creating a new Team Project
Scrum with Visual Studio 11: Creating a Scrum team identity
I have been getting to grips with dev11 recently and I want to share a couple of thing that I like. The first of which is the ability to create teams and to automatically slice your work by that team. [wpvideo UEI5H16i] Video: Scrum with dev11: Creating a Scrum team identity dev 11 is due […]
Product Owners are not a myth
Steven Borg brought “5 Reasons Why a Product Owner Team Might Be a Good Idea” to my attention which in turn lead me to read “Is Scrum a –ism that doesn’t work for real?“, and for me there seams to be a certain amount of “missing the point” and I wanted to try to find […]
Are Scrum Masters agents for change?
If you are interested in finding out more about Scrum and how to implement it you might be interested in the Professional Scrum Master certification. Think of it not as becoming a “Master” of anything, but just making sure that you are not going to be a danger to those around you. Do you […]
Caffeinating Your Development Lifecycle in Bellevue on October 13th
Northwest Cadence has decided that while online events are good, nothing beats in-person. If you’re in the area and available, we would love to have you attend our inaugural event at the Microsoft Store in Bellevue in a few weeks! Cheryl noticed that MSFT has a presentation room at its Bellevue Store, and we decided […]
Scrum is hard to adopt and disruptive to your organisation
Before the “Professional Scrum Foundations” course ever existed I was tasked with delivering a practical Scrum foundation course for our customers. I came up with a 2 day “Scrum Foundation” course that included lots of practical exercises and leveraged the existing Scrum Open exam. But why would you want it and is that all you need?
You are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do!
If you are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do then you may be missing the point.
Testing with Test Professional 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
On Monday 24th October one of our consultants, Dan Wood, is presenting our course on Testing with Visual Studio ALM. The course is running on Monday 24th October and I managed to get NWC to provide 10 additional seats for you guys at the discounted rate. If you are in Europe then it is a […]
Subversion to TFS 2010: The migration engine is unable to resolve a conflict where two changes have the same target item
Running into problems when migrating a Subversion Repository to Team Foundation Server is what to so with conflicts resulting from SVN being Case Sensitive and TFS not. note: Case Sensitivity is mostly a bad idea for files, url’s and code. On of the problems with Subversion is that it treats “/trunk/a.txt” and “/trunk/A.txt” as two […]
Subversion to TFS 2010: Dealing with invalid Subversion SSL certificates and migrations
Migrating data from SVN to TFS can be both a timely and a costly business. I was trying out the two tools TFS Integration Platform & Timely Migration but I ran into what looked like the same problem in both if them. Acknowledgement: Thorsten Dralle – Thorsten helped me figure out what the heck was […]