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Tips to passing the Professional Scrum Developer 1 assessment

Oct 7, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Developer I (PSD I) assessment measures knowledge of how to build complex software products using Scrum, and allows people to validate this understanding. If you are …

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The One Work Item check-in policy

Oct 7, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thanks to my fellow Visual Studio ALM MVP Colin Dembovsky for building the “One Work Item” check-in policy that I was always too lazy to build. Judging by the title, it may sound like one of the …

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Measuring the Business Value of a PBI

Oct 4, 2013 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m curious. What do you enter in the Business Value field? Take this PBI work item for example … According to MSDN you are supposed to type a number that indicates the relative business value of the …

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Who wants to be a Professional Scrum Trainer?

Sep 24, 2013 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Registration is now open for our Professional Scrum Developer Train The Trainer (TTT) event in Stuttgart, Germany on December 2-6, 2013. This will be the last such event this year. We are looking for …

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Get ready for the launch of Visual Studio 2013

Sep 12, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Visual Studio 2013 will launch on November 13. You can join the festivities virtually from your workstation or mobile device. Watch the keynote speech live or at a later time. You can also hear how …

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Story Mapping Software

Sep 11, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Updated 16 Sep, 2015 to freshen up the links A few weeks ago I ran a free, half-day Agile software requirements workshop in Boise. There were over 100 attendees and we had good conversations about …

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Rename a TFS Project Collection

Mar 14, 2013 • 3 min read • Simon Reindl

I was asked the other day how to rename a Team Project Collection. There is a way, and it is more like a three card shuffle than anything else, and will work in TFS2010 and TFS2012. The super quick …

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Exporting TF Status to Excel

Dec 14, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

You can use TF.EXE STATUS to display information about pending changes to items in one or more workspaces. I use this prior to migrations to see what users have files checked-out and locked, and they …

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What’s new in the Visual Studio Scrum 2.1 Process Template?

Nov 28, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you’ve connected to the hosted Team Foundation Service lately, you’ve noticed a new version of the Scrum template is available … Being the curious type, I connected to the service with Visual …

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