Visual Studio 2010 Overview Webcasts
Over the last year I have delivered a variety of high-level overviews of Visual Studio ALM and the features that are available within it. These are all high level overviews even when talking about specific topics, and I have occasionally had to hand wave where things did not go well (Cough… Sharepoint Dev… cough) but these sessions make up the core features of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010.
Visual Studio 2010 Overview - Introduction
A high-level overview of ALM and how the features in Visual Studio 2010 support ALM. This presentation touches on all the features shown in the rest of the deeper-dive sessions. If attendees don’t know which other sessions they want, watching this presentation might help them decide.
Visual Studio 2010 Overview - A day in the life of ... Plan, Code & Test
This session shows the Day in the Life of a project using TFS from the context of a Developer, Tester, and Program Manager. The purpose of this session is to give a clear picture of how someone in the role of the Developer, the Tester and Program Manager would use TFS in his/her role.
An adoption strategy for testing with Visual Studio 2010
Its hard for developers to work with testers and its hard for testers to work with developers. There are many tools out there to help teams break down those barriers between them and I really like both the features and workflow of Microsoft Test Manager (MTM). While I am not a tester, I am a developer and the rich bugs that are produced by MTM help me reproduce that evasive bug and improves my relationship with what should be my teammates.
What is the roll of the Project Manager in Scrum?
I get a lot of questions about the role of the Project Manger in the world of Scrum and there is usually a lot of hemming and hawing from consultants and Scrum coaches that want to take the touchy-feely approach.
SSRS vs SCVMM - The Kerberos token dispute
I have been working with one of my colleagues, Bryon, over the holidays in order to install both TFS and Lab management at a customer. Now that customer has some awesome hardware, but insisted on a physical TFS server. The DL320 with 18 cores, 42GB RAM and 2TB of storage make a pretty fast TFS server, but we did run into a couple of problems. The solution to the first problem caused the second problem.
The Sprint is a container for Planning and not necessarily for Delivery
I have been told time and again in the office that Scrum is an inflexible platform for developing software as it is way too prescriptive. This is far from reality and represents an invalid interpretation in the rules of the game. This fault lies not with those that have been turned away from the light, but with the fanatics that have brandished the burning torch and pitchfork at your door chanting “that is not Scrum because…”.
Can you really commit to delivering work?
There has been a subtle but targeted change in the wording used as part of Scrum. There has bee a move away from commitment towards forecasting what will be completed. Why is this happening and what does it mean to my team?
Always prompted for credentials in TFS 2010?
Sometimes when you setup TFS you find that your users, or just some of them, are being prompted for credentials. While manageable this is annoying and is not really related to TFS. This is an Active Directory thing and yes, there is a workaround…
Are you doing Scrum? Really?
This week I was at the ALM Summit in Redmond. There was a very interesting talk from David Starr of Scrum.org going over the recent changes in Scrum. These changes are, I think, designed to battle the things that have made Scrum unpalatable to many people.
