A better way than staggered iterations for delivery
There is a better way than staggered iterations for delivery that will keep you on the path to agility.
Release planning and predictable delivery
Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery.
Searching for self-organisation
Many companies have started searching for self-organisation. That ideal or nirvana where teams can figure out how to work together effectively with limited or little direction to solve problems.
Quality enablement to achieve predictable delivery
You need quality enablement to achieve predictable delivery for your organisation which takes effort to achieve.
Does your company culture resemble Survivor?
Does your company culture resemble Survivor? Do you have a culture in your organisation where individuals that help others are considered slackers for not getting their own assignments complete?
What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server Preview
Steve Ballmer just announced the Visual Studio 2013 Go-Live preview at the Build summit not more than an hour ago so get Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server while its hot! Remember that this Preview is covered by a Go-Live licence and is fully supported for production use.
Quality enablement with Visual Studio 2012
In the modern application lifecycle one of the key messages is one of quality enablement. Quality will be the key differentiator between you and your competitors over the next few years and the old excuses are just that… old.
Release Management with Team Foundation Server 2012
Northwest Cadence has been working hard with customers to improve their release management in Team Foundation Server 2012. While on the surface it looks like TFS 2012 has little in the way of support for release management, you would be wrong. There are many features in Team Foundation Server, many of them added in TFS 2010 that can aid you in creating a release management strategy.
The Insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy
The insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy perpetrated by teams that don’t step up their practices in concert with their planning and don’t really want to make it work anyway. You can fail doing Kanban, XP or Merese and SSADM just as easily. The goal of Agile is to have you fail sooner and for it to cost less.
Migrating source code with history to TFS 2012 with Git-Tf
Its hard to migrate source code even from one Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server to another, especially when you also want to have your history. We have been forced in the past to use some hokie migration tools that only really partially work. Update Anthony Borton gave me a hard time for not being […]