Technical Mastery: Building Quality Through Engineering Excellence

Drive high-quality software development with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). Define clear, testable acceptance criteria before …

Learn key practices for adopting modern source control and DevOps, including automation, release pipelines, and team collaboration to improve software …

Explains why modern software teams avoid branch promotion, using continuous integration, feature flags, and production-like testing to streamline …

Explores how test-driven development and pair programming improve software architecture, code quality, team skills, and long-term productivity by …

Explores how automation in testing, deployment, and validation streamlines development, reduces technical debt, and builds confidence for teams and …

Explores how frequent code deployments improve code quality, reduce technical debt, enable faster feedback, and support iterative, user-focused …

Explains how to set up a scalable release pipeline using Release Management in Visual Studio 2013, covering continuous release, feedback environments, …

Technical debt increases risk to products and businesses, leading to hidden costs, reduced quality, and slower delivery. Ignoring it can harm …

Intensive five-day course for software developers covering Scrum, Visual Studio 2010, .NET, and Agile practices through hands-on team sprints and …

Explains how integrating security and quality early in software development—using practices like TDD, pair programming, and continuous feedback—builds …

Explores how Visual Studio 2012 supports continuous quality enablement, automated testing, and rapid delivery in modern software development for …

Explains how to set up and use Standard Environments in Visual Studio 2012 TFS for automated software deployment and testing, enabling consistent, …

Explains the role of automated testing in modern software development, covering types, integration, benefits, challenges, and tools for maintaining …

Explains how to configure MSTest for automated testing of web services on Team Foundation Build Services 2010, including handling dynamic server ports …

Driving software design through automated tests for better quality.

Explores how managing technical debt enables faster delivery, higher product quality, and greater innovation, highlighting strategies for continuous …

Mentoring program for developers and teams to master Agile, DevOps, Kanban, and evidence-based practices, fostering engineering excellence and …

Explores how poor engineering, shallow product thinking, and organisational denial lead to fragile systems, stressing that true resilience requires …

A **Shift-Left Strategy** brings testing, security, and compliance earlier in development, reducing defects, accelerating feedback, and improving …

Technical debt includes slow feedback, fragile systems, and manual processes that hinder progress. Addressing it early with automation and testing …

The Definition of Done can evolve to improve quality but should not be weakened or vary per backlog item. Consistency ensures transparency and …

Explores using AI embeddings and cosine similarity to improve related content recommendations in Hugo, enhancing semantic relevance, user navigation, …

Scrum Teams uphold, not lower, quality by strictly following and evolving the Definition of Done, ensuring predictable releases and reducing technical …

Transform legacy engineering with a proven, step-by-step approach—learn how to automate, adapt, and build a resilient, modern DevOps culture.

Scrum Teams must consistently meet a clear, non-negotiable Definition of Done to ensure quality, manage risk, and prevent technical debt in every …

Explores how staging environments aim to reduce risk in software development, their hidden costs, and modern alternatives like feature flags and …

Lack of a clear, enforced Definition of Done leads to hidden risks, unreliable forecasts, and eroded trust in delivery, undermining predictability and …

Staging environments can’t fully replicate production, often leading to false confidence. Real risk reduction comes from safe, incremental releases to …

Manual testing limits release speed and quality, while automation enables faster, more reliable software delivery by reducing regressions and tester …

Personal experiences and lessons on using Azure DevOps, covering its evolution, migration strategies, custom tools, and practical advice for …

True organisational resilience means improving technical health—like testing, automation, and architecture—beyond just surviving incidents or …

Technical debt always harms productivity and system stability. Ignoring it leads to inefficiency and risk, making it essential to address rather than …

Explores how adopting naked agility boosts engineering excellence, quality, and leadership by addressing technical debt, shifting left, and fostering …

Learn key strategies for building business resilience and continuity, including observability, system decoupling, routine deployments, team …

Explore proven strategies from Azure DevOps for building resilient, reliable software systems—covering transparency, automation, telemetry, incident …

Managing the development, maintenance, and governance of software applications throughout their lifecycle.

Learn how NKD Agility supports organisations in building engineering excellence through modern practices like performance engineering, testing in …

Explains how Scrum Sprints are primarily for planning, not fixed delivery, and discusses aligning delivery schedules, continuous deployment, and …

Highlights the importance of promptly fixing software bugs instead of managing backlogs, arguing that unresolved defects harm product quality and team …

Rollback is often riskier than rolling forward, especially for stateful apps. Safer deployment relies on progressive delivery and fail-forward …

Explores challenges and solutions for manual testing in agile software development, focusing on tracking, automation, actionable bugs, and integrated …

Step-by-step guide to building an automated Release Management pipeline for professional developers, covering build, deployment, environment setup, …

Explains how to unit test applications against the Team Foundation Server 2012 API, focusing on handling authentication for automated and unattended …

Summary of sessions from a Glasgow developer event, covering refactoring, dynamic languages in .NET, MVVM for WPF, architecture, and ASP.NET 4.0 …

Explains how to resolve the "CleanWorkspacePackageTempDir does not exist" build error in Team Foundation Build 2012 for upgraded ASP.NET MVC projects …

Explains how to log Elmah error reports as work items in Team Foundation Server, including attaching error logs, using templates, and retrieving error …

Step-by-step guide to upgrading Team Foundation Server 2008 to 2010, including in-place upgrade, build server update, and migrating to a new domain …

Explains how to build a TFS Integration Platform Work Item Tracking (WIT) adapter for a source system without history, covering versioning, field …

Explains how to reserve a build agent in Team Foundation Server 2012 using custom activities, agent tagging, and workflow changes to ensure reliable, …

Step-by-step guide to migrating FogBugz data to TFS 2012 using a custom CSV adapter with the TFS Integration Platform, including setup, mapping, and …

Step-by-step guide to upgrading TFS 2008 and WSS v3.0 with SfTSv2 to TFS 2010 and SharePoint 2010, including process template migration and data …

Step-by-step guide to setting up a Domain Controller in Azure for Active Directory integration, including VM creation, configuration, and syncing with …

Explains how to create and deploy server-side event subscribers in Team Foundation Server 2010 using the ISubscriber interface to handle and process …

Explains how to set up SEO-friendly permanent redirects for old URLs to new ones in ASP.NET, covering best practices and code examples for preserving …

Explains how to use a custom NinjectDataProvider in WPF to enable dependency injection for ViewModels, improving flexibility and design-time support …

Learn how to build a flexible data access layer in .NET using Unity for dependency injection, interface mapping, and factory patterns with …

Learn how to build a custom WPF work item control for Visual Studio Team System, enabling WPF UI integration in work item forms using a generic …

Explains how to programmatically create and configure a WCF Service Host in .NET, including base addresses, endpoints, bindings, and service …

Explains how to use a WPF behaviour with attached properties to globally scale multiple UI controls at runtime, supporting MVVM and slider-based scale …

Explains why environment-based branching slows development, and recommends using feature flags and progressive rollouts for simpler, faster, and safer …