Not just happy, but ecstatic
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.
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. Ultimately the Scrum Master should never tell the Development Team what to do and they should make sure that the Development Team has both the knowledge and the skills to work things out for themselves. This is critical to the teams ability to self organise going forward because we all learn by the mistakes we make.
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.
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.
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.
Coffee Talk: Introduction to Scrum - webcast event this Friday!
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…
Upgrading your Process Template in Team Foundation Server
Upgrading your Process Template in Team Foundation Server regardless of the version is pretty hard to achieve. Think of it like changing your mind on the blueprints of a building after you have finished construction. If you are making a small change, like adding a field, then this will be easy. But if you want to fundamentally change the structure of your work items and their workflow then you are looking at a bigger and much more complicated solution.
Coffee Talk: Scrum versus Kanban (re-match) ... Thursday at High Noon!
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.
Coffee Talk: Scrum versus Kanban
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 doing the Kanban and me doing the Scrum sessions.
Disqus & Chrome with non-support
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?
