by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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. …
by Martin Hinshelwood
A little while ago I was looking into the best options for upgrading a process template but still keep your data intact, but there is still a little bit of ambiguity on how that is achieved. Lets look at the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Recently I was burned rather heavily be Microsoft Billing due to their inability to change the region (country) of an account. Yes, you heard me right, there is NO way to change your billing region and the ONLY solution Microsoft …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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! …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As a consultant I have customers. Unfortunately being a consultant rather than a contractor has the down side that I hardly ever here from my customers after my engagement ends. I just noticed an email from one of my more …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do then you may be missing the point.
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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. …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you attended Coffee Talk: Scrum versus Kanban (re-match) … Thursday at High Noon! where I trumped Steven Borg’s Kantban or even Steven’s session on Coffee Talk: Introduction to Kanban then you should also attend this… I will be delving …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Upgrading your Process Template in Team Foundation Server regardless of the version is something pretty hard. Think of it like changing your mind on the blueprints of a building after you have finished construction. If you are making a small …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Because of the phenomenal success of the Scrum versus Kanban session that Steven Borg an I did today, we plan on having a rematch to see if Kanban can make a comeback. Hopefully Steve1 can do a better job for …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am doing a free session this Friday with Steven Borg to help folks understand the differences between Scrum and Kanban and where each fit. This will be an introductory session and future sessions will be split with Steven Box …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am having a problem on my blog with comments. Namely that you cant see any! This is the downside of relying on a third party tool, but do the problems out weight the benefits? Comments not loading I am …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been working with a rather large customer that have over 150GB in Team Foundation Server with over 10GB in SharePoint. They are also using the Scrum for Team System v2 (SfTSv2) Process template that is not supported under …
by Martin Hinshelwood
We have a customer who really, really want to ship source code from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Perforce. Why you might ask… Well for many companies they can’t just migrate, they either need some sort of safety net, or …