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Are You Doing Scrum?

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 Backlog · Sprint Backlog showing remaining...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Thu, May 16 2013
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Agile, Scrum, scrum.org
Branching and Merging with Scrum and Visual Studio ALM

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 right strategy can help you raise the bar on quality...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Mon, Jul 23 2012
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Continuous Integration, Agile, Scrum, Source Control, Branching & Merging
SoCal Code Camp – Los Angeles October 15 & 16 2011

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 big focus on Scrum as a final warm-up for my Scrum...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Mon, Sep 12 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Code Camp, Agile, Scrum
Microsoft ALM Summit is coming November 14 - 18

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: ALM Leadership and Agile Developer. The main conference...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Wed, Aug 31 2011
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Richard Hundhausen, Accentient, Agile, Scrum, ALM Summit
Using MSDeploy to Automate Web Deployment for Test and Production with Visual Studio ALM 2010 Team Build

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. Here I'll discuss improving that example...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Thu, Feb 17 2011
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server, Team Buld, MSDeploy
SoCal Code Camp – Cal State Fullerton January 29 & 30 2011

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 and Production with Visual Studio ALM 2010 Team...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Tue, Dec 21 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Agile, Scrum, Testing, Codecamp
Microsoft ALM Summit November 16-18

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 a “right size” event with a single track...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, Dec 19 2010
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Agile, Scrum
SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp San Diego

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 Scrum is an increasingly popular agile framework...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Jun 19 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Code Camp, VSTS 2010, Scrum, workflow
Professional Scrum Developer Training – June 21-25

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 has created the first-of-its-kind, Scrum Developer...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Mon, Apr 5 2010
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Accentient, Agile, Scrum, Ken Schwaber, Scrum Developer
The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010

The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010 This event would be of interest to all that want to learn more about Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management. I will be presenting at the San Diego and Los Angeles events and John Miller who helps run SoCal Team System...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Wed, Feb 24 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server, The Ultimate Event
Visual Studio 2010 ALM Pricing

I'm frequently asked pricing questions for Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management products. As always, my response is check with your Microsoft sales representative for your specific case. Here's the suggested retail pricing. If you are renewing your MSDN Subscription, timing may be...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Feb 6 2010
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server
SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp, January 30 and 31, Cal State Fullerton

The next SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp will be January 31 and 31 at Cal State University Fullerton. Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Mon, Dec 21 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Code Camp, Scrum for Team System, Scrum, Codecamp
Visual Studio 2010 Release Pushed Back

Microsoft wants to be sure they get it right with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET4. Feedback they've received from Beta 2 is being listened to and acted upon. In general, the new features are great but work is needed on performance. To that end, the release is being pushed back a few weeks and we'll...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Dec 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Brian Harry, Visual Studio 2010, Scott Guthrie
PDC Birds of a Feather Follow-up

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 of ALM. On Tuesday, David Starr and I hosted...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Dec 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, INETA, Birds of a Feather, PDC, Agile, Scrum
Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Team Development for All

This was a busy week for new stuff Microsoft. Wednesday Oct 21 was the official release day for Windows 7. It also was the first day of public availability for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 from MDSN downloads. You can download Beta 2 here http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Oct 24 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS 2010, Windows 7

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