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Jun 27, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

A bug is a bug is a bug, right? Not so! Most development shops treat a bug as a task. That seems reasonable - it's a bit of work that needs to be done. Unfortunately, it's not so easy. If a bug is …

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Jun 27, 2008 • 3 min read • Martin Danner

While at TechEd 2008 earlier this month I attended a presentation by Colin Bird where, among other things, he presented the next generation of the Conchango Scrum For Team System process template. …

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Kalen Delaney in Boise tonight!

Jun 26, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Tonight is the maiden voyage of the Idaho SQL Server User Group and what a way to send it off - with Kalen talking about SQL Server 2005. Counting heads in the room, it looks like we have about 33 …

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Version Control with 2008 SP1

Jun 25, 2008 • 1 min read • David Starr

I am a simple man. All I ever wanted was drag and drop for source control. That folder chooser dialog was a bear. Now we will get it with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Thank goodness. From the web site: …

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Introducing the Boise APLN

Jun 25, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Some of us here in the Treasure Valley have decided to start a Boise chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network. This is a group of people passionate about Agile and sharing experiences and best …

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Attendee-Driven Presentation

Jun 9, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I've seen Test Driven Development work, so why not adjust it slightly and have the attendees (who own the requirements after all) drive the presentation? Today, at the in-between conference (a.k.a. …

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SharePoint Web 2.0 Fire Starter event at Microsoft

May 28, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In typical FireStarter event style, this event will be delivering a first class experience to all attendees and make them experts on developing on SharePoint technologies before the end of the event. …

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Elegant Code to host Open Space Get together

May 28, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Elegant Code is hosting an Open Spaces session. An Open Spaces session is a discussion where the attendees generate the topics. There will be no presentation, no lecture, no PowerPoint slides, …

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Viewing Your Backlog

May 23, 2008 • 4 min read • David Starr

In many Agile development processes, there exists the idea of THE BACKLOG. This is particularly true in Scrum, the methodology that originated the idea. The recipe from Scrum is a Product Backlog …

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