Creating a backup in Team Foundation Server 2010 using the Power Tools
Over the last few years the product team has been putting their finishing touches on a backup module for the Team Foundation Server Administration Console. Why you might ask do you need another way to backup? Surely you can just backup the bits?
Enabling Google Plus Profiles for Google Apps users in under 2 minutes
It is finally here… just a short time ago Google enabled the ability to have Google Profiles and by extension Google+ on your customer Google Apps domain. However, you first need to enable it before you can use it.
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.
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.
Process Template Upgrade #3 - Destroy all Work Items and Import new ones
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 #3 option from that set in a little more detail.
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 it.
Allow user to change the region for Windows Live ID billing
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 can offer is to create a new account.
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.
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!
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?
