Thank you to everyone who attended my talks at Tech-Ed 2010 last week in New Orleans. I had a great time talking Scrum, Visual Studio 2010, and all intersections in-between.
Here are my presentations, …
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There are situations (infrastructure component used across the enterprise is one example) where it is more useful to put the assembly in to the GAC.
Using Heat, a transform needs to be used that will …
Read more →There are two really powerful ways to harvest the output from the build in to Wix.
Heat extensions that are native with the Wix Install or John Robbins Paraffin. The advantage with using Heat is that …
Read more →Customizing Team Foundation Server Project Portals
I just noticed this new article online at MSDN.
Phil Hodgson provides guidance for potential process-authors who wish to customize process templates used to create team project portals on SharePoint.
Read more →Visual Studio 2010 ALM Guidance from the Rangers
Now that Visual Studio 2010 has launched, teams are discovering just how much capability is included within those .iso files. MSDN does a good job of explaining what the buttons do, but you really …
Read more →Is Annotate good for Scrum teams?
As you know, you can use the TFS Annotate command to learn which team member made a particular change to a particular file. It can also show you who wrote each line of code in a file and when. This …
Read more →Test-Driven Test-Driven Development (TDTDD) = a chicken and egg dilemma
Weird thought for today: if unit tests are just code, then shouldn’t you write tests before you write that code? Test-driven-test-driven-development (TDTDD) if you will. But then where would it stop. …
Read more →Application Lifecycle Management interview at the Visual Studio 2010 launch
At the Visual Studio 2010 launch a few weeks ago I was interviewed, along with David Starr, about ALM. I just found the recording online.
Here are the steps to get to it:
1. Go to …
Read more →New Scrum one pager by the VS ALM Rangers
The Rangers have published an update to the quick reference stack, and one of my favourites is the Scrum chart. Download the full pack here.
The pack is broken down by headings
Start Here
Planning …
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