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Agile frameworks like Scrum only really talk bout the rules to play, not the strategies to win.

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Process Template Upgrade #7 – Overwrite retaining history with limited migration

By MrHinsh On May 11, 2012 · Add Comment · In Tools
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A little while ago I was looking into the best options for upgrading a process template but still keep your data intact, but there is still a little bit of ambiguity on how that is achieved. Although the original list had only #6 options lets look at the #7 option…

In option #7 we [...]

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Unit Testing against the Team Foundation Server 11 API

By MrHinsh On April 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In Practices, Tools
Building strategies around good agile and engineering practices will help you provide more value to your customers.

I have been working a lot recently with the new Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview) that Microsoft is providing in Azure. I was building an application called TFS Field Annotate that allows you to spelunk a fields changes. One of the problems I ran into is how to Unit Test this. I have been doing [...]

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TFS Field Annotator

By MrHinsh On March 30, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Tools
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Do you make lots of edits to your TFS Work Items? Do you ever look at a field in the UI and think…

last time I looked that was a 4? Why is it a 6? Who changed it?

if you have, then the TFS Field Annotate is for you. Connect to TFS, select a [...]

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TFS Service Credential Viewer

By MrHinsh On March 30, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Tools
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If you want to connect to the Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview) API you are going to need some credentials in order to connect. That’s right, where do you expect to store your Live ID for connecting? Do you expect to add it to the windows credentials store? What about having the user manually add [...]

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What’s in a burndown?

By MrHinsh On March 27, 2012 · Add Comment · In Practices
Building strategies around good agile and engineering practices will help you provide more value to your customers.

I was recently in Park City, Utah to teach the Professional Scrum Foundations course and i just got an email from one of the students. As I want to help everyone I will answer here:

If I recall from our training, you suggested teams could burn down their sprints using points or hours.  [...]

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Professional Scrum Foundations in Salt Lake City, Utah

By MrHinsh On March 25, 2012 · 6 Comments · In Process
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This week I have been filling in for David Starr at a customer and it has been an experience. David had a family emergency and tapped me of all people to take the gig from him. So not only did Northwest Cadence have to rearrange my schedule to make sure that I could [...]

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Do you want Visual Studio Ultimate for free? Do you have MSDN?

By MrHinsh On March 4, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Me, NWCadence, Tools
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Are you a professional developer? Do you get an MSDN from your organisation?

Did you know that you can use it at home on both commercial and open source projects of your own!

MSDN subscriptions are licensed on a per-user basis.  One person can use the software to design, develop, test, or demonstrate his or [...]

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You can’t stack rank hierarchical work items?

By MrHinsh On March 1, 2012 · 3 Comments · In NWCadence, Tools
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At the MVP Summit I was appalled by the number of people who asked questions about new features for supporting hierarchical tasks! I shared a disgusted look with Peter Provost and we had a quick (and I mean really quick) conversation that resulted in this post. it really comes down to one thing:

You [...]

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Visual Studio 11 Upgrade Health Check

By MrHinsh On March 1, 2012 · Add Comment · In NWCadence, Tools
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With the launch of Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server Beta and the Go-Live licencing model you can go into production now. But what if you are not quite ready?

Figure: Go-Live with Visual Studio 11 with our help

With the success of the Scrum Health Check we are expanding the family [...]

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Installing Visual Studio 11 on Windows 7

By MrHinsh On February 29, 2012 · Add Comment · In NWCadence, Tools
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With the launch of Visual Studio 11 beta and that it is fully supported in production I wanted to update my laptop with the bits. I have a presentation on Friday of what’s new in Visual Studio 11 and I will show some of the new features there.

Figure: The new installer [...]

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