Here’s a quick self-evaluation to see if you are doing Scrum. It’s based on Scrum as described in the Scrum Guide . The Scrum Test (1 of 3) Do these exist? · Product Owner, Development Team, and Scrum Master · Ordered Product...
I frequently recommend the ALM Ranger’s Branching and Merging Guidance to clients as a base of understanding when evolving a strategy that best meets the client’s source control needs. When working with agile methodologies like Scrum, the...
INETA is turning 10 this year, on February 12 to be specific. This is a great time to reflect on how INETA and our .NET Community have grown. In addition to founding and running several user groups in Orange County, California I had the honor of serving...
If you are planning to attend Visual Studio Connections and want to download my Scrum presentation material in advance, here are the links. Hope to see you in Las Vegas. Scrum Fundamentals - Do It Right Top 10 Dysfunctions With Scrum - Don’t Shoot...
SoCal Code Camp Los Angeles is coming soon at the USC campus. As of today there are 61 sessions; I expect over 100 by the time I have to do scheduling. This year we should have more large audience rooms available. I’m doing four sessions with a...
Microsoft ALM Summit The ALM Summit is again coming up soon and again will be held on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Keith Pleas and his company, Guided Design, do a great job of organizing and running this event. This year there will be two tracks...
SoCal Code Camp San Diego is coming soon at UCSD. As of today there are 110 sessions, with more to come. I’m doing four sessions with a big focus on Scrum: Scrum Fundamentals - Do It Right Herding Pigs – Managing Self-Organizing Teams Top...
Leverage MSDeploy.exe to Automatically Deploy Builds Where We Need Them In an earlier posting Building a Custom Build Workflow with Deployment I showed how you can extend Team Build workflow to do a simple deployment to a user acceptance test (UAT) location...
Win a full scholarship trip to Microsoft's TechEd 2011 in Atlanta. INETA is hosting the Component Code Challenge, a contest with our component partners to showcase great .NET applications making effective use of reusable components to solve a problem...
SoCal Code Camp Fullerton VI is coming soon. As of today there are 87 sessions, we’ll be well over 100 when it’s time for me to put the schedule together. I’m doing three sessions this time: · Automating Web Deployment for Test...
I’m finally getting around to sharing my thoughts on the Microsoft ALM Summit last month on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Keith Pleas and his company, Guided Design, did a great job of organizing and running this event. In my opinion this was...
SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp Los Angeles is coming October 23 and 24, 2010 at the University of Southern California campus. We have two action packed days of sessions, Saturday Geek Dinner, Sunday Geek Lunch, and raffle prizes plus a great opportunity...
Exploring Team Build based on Workflow 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 ALM With Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management, Team Build is based on Workflow 4.0. Workflow provides an improved build experience and allows you to customize the workflow...
Accentient , who I work with to provide ALM training and consulting, is pleased to announce that they are officially a friend of the Urban Turtle . Accentient is both an Urban Turtle “Select Partner”, which is a highly recognized and trusted...
Coming up Saturday and Sunday June 26 and 27 is the SoCal Code Camp at UCSD in San Diego. Look forward to two full action packed days and don’t forget the geek dinner on Saturday evening. I’ll be doing three sessions: 1. Scrum Fundamentals...