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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...
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...
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...
I will be presenting Accentient’s Professional Scrum Developer course June 21-25 at the Microsoft Technology Center, Irvine. CA. In cooperation with Microsoft, Ken Schwaber , and Scrum.org , and other industry subject matter experts, Accentient...
I'm a month late following up on PDC but it was a real success in my opinion. I had a great time starting off with Monday's pre-conference hosting an MVP table at the lunch break to discuss the new Visual Studio configurations and deeper integration...
Last night, Patrick Neeman and I did a tag-team presentation on Scrum and User Experience at the LA Scrum Club . The turnout was good and most importantly helped make the presentation an engaging conversation. The presentation ended shortly after 9 but...
On May 20 th , Richard Hundhausen and I had the pleasure of recording a couple of web casts on Visual Studio Team System. My session focused on why VSTS is a good investment in today’s challenged economy and Rich focused on developing with VSTS...
A good friend of mine, Patrick Neeman, has a great web site dedicated to user experience, Usability Counts . Recently he has been focusing on Agile development and why it works for User Experience. Check out “ Seven Reasons Why Agile and Scrum Works...