According to Microsoft’s official definition, Team Rooms, like chat rooms, “provide teams with a space to discuss work in progress, ask questions, share status, and clarify issues that …
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Ordering the Product Backlog by ROI
The Scrum Guide says that the Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog and that Product Backlog management includes ordering items in the Product Backlog …
Read more →I’m always amazed at how difficult and even impossible it can be for stakeholders to get their ideas into some product backlogs.
I’ve started asking teams to run a stakeholder traceroute. …
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Update (April 2016): Microsoft has released Office Integration 2015 Update 2.
With the recent release of Team Foundation Server Update 1, Microsoft has enabled all users to create storyboards in …
Read more →Microsoft, please give us a Scrum process template
In 2014, the Scrum Guide was moved off of Scrum.org and posted to ScrumGuides.org. At the same time, all of the major Scrum organizations in the world acknowledged this as the official definition of …
Read more →You may have noticed when creating a new Scrum team project in Visual Studio Online or Team Foundation Server 2015, that the iteration list looks a bit different. Yes, Microsoft flattened out the …
Read more →Turn off the Diagnostics Tools window in Visual Studio 2015
I’m sure it’s awesome. I’m sure it doesn’t impact performance (much). I’m sure my apps would be more awesome if I used it, but …
… today I want to turn off …
Read more →Turn off Automatic Updates on Windows 10 Professional
Call me weird, but when I create and maintain virtual machines for demonstration and training, I like to be in control of if/when Windows updates are installed. This is fit for purpose since …
Read more →Update: Added additional links for my same talks at VSLive! in San Francisco today (17 June, 2015)
Thank you to those who attended my two talks today. I enjoyed our conversation about Technical Debt …
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