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Room configuration for team-based training

Feb 2, 2018 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When planning a team-based training event, please consider the room configuration. Having a comfortable table and chair arrangement will go a long ways towards a positive learning experience. Round …

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Should our team use Scrum?

Oct 31, 2017 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As a traveling Scrum and DevOps consultant I’m constantly asked “Should our team use Scrum”? Now you might think that being a Professional Scrum Trainer – and serious Scrum fanboy – I would always …

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Which tests are my regression tests?

Sep 28, 2017 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Although we can’t help you decide which tests should be part of your regression suite, we can help you easily identify them by using tags. Over the years, we’ve seen teams using Team …

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Create a Professional Scrum process

Mar 15, 2017 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Visual Studio Team Services’ customization capabilities are to a point now where I can write this blog post … as a rebuttal to any earlier post of my own. As you may know, the Scrum …

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Wassup Team Room?

Sep 30, 2016 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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

Aug 15, 2016 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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Stakeholder Traceroute

Jun 13, 2016 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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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Storyboard your ideas for free

Dec 15, 2015 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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Microsoft, please give us a Scrum process template

Nov 4, 2015 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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