Practices
Having repeatable practices will improve your quality as well as your consistency. Test Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Continuous Delivery are no longer the purview only of small teams.
Process
You need to keep everyone going in the same direction while giving them room to manoeuvre. Lets accept that processes are imperfectly defined and move froward from there...
Tools
Tools should help teams do their job while providing minimal intrusion into their daily lives and Visual Studio ALM & Team Foundation Server do just that.
Who am I?
Martin is a Senior ALM Consultant at Northwest Cadence, and also a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVPs in Washington, USA (Formally UK) with over 9 years experience in the software industry. He is a member of the Visual Studio ALM Rangers, has been named a Visual Studio ALM Ranger Champion, Visual Studio ALM MVP of the Year 2011 and is also a Professional Scrum Trainer. He regularly writes on his Processes, Practices & Tools blog, and speaks often on Scrum, good practices and Visual Studio ALM.Martin aims to provide Strategic and Tactical consulting on successful implementations of new Processes, Practices & Tools within both small and large organisations across the world. These would include, but not be limited to:
- Scrum Mentoring & Training - Scrum Master Training, Scrum Developer Training, Scrum Mentoring, Scrum Coaching
- Practice improvements – Requirements (Backlog,Limiting Work In Progress, Relative Complexity, Acceptance Criteria, Planning Poker, User Stories, Use Cases, Visualisation) , Teams (Team Protection, Commitment), Code (Unit Testing, Branching, Continuous Integration, TDD, ), Test (Acceptance Test Driven Development, Automation, ), Release & Configuration (Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment)
- Visual Studio ALM Implementation, upgrades & Training - Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Build & Microsoft Test Manager
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About Martin
Martin is an Senior ALM Consultant at Northwest Cadence, Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP of the Year 2011, Visual Studio ALM Rangers Champion 2011 and a Professional Scrum Trainer