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Customizing a Professional Scrum Process

Feb 17, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The Scrum process in Azure DevOps is the closest fit to the Scrum Guide of any system process, but it isn't a perfect fit. Over the past decade the Scrum Guide evolved while the process largely stood …

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The Pre-Game Checklist: Setting Up an Org and Project Right

Jan 31, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In rugby, a lot happens before kickoff. Fields get selected, dates get negotiated, teams get formed, and player positions get designated. Scrum development efforts have a pre-game too. It's everything …

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Who Owns the Code Your AI Just Wrote?

Jan 14, 2025 • 5 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's an uncomfortable question for every team leaning on AI to ship faster: if an AI wrote your code, who owns it? Under current U.S. law the honest answer is probably nobody, and that should bother …

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Azure Test Plans Is Your Sprint Plan, Not Just a Test Tool

Jan 13, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Most teams I meet think Azure Test Plans is simply about creating and running tests. That's how Microsoft promotes the product and how it tends to get demoed. It can certainly do those things. But …

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Choosing a Process: Basic, Agile, Scrum, or CMMI

Dec 30, 2024 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Every Azure DevOps project starts with a decision that most teams make in about four seconds and then live with for years. When you create a new project, you have to pick a process. That process …

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Azure DevOps + Mural = Awesome Visualizations

Apr 25, 2024 • 6 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I'm a fan of Mural and a super fan of Azure DevOps. Turns out they work pretty well together. Using Mural as a front-end to Azure DevOps offers an alternative approach to planning, visualizing, and …

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Practicing Hypothesis-Driven Development in Azure DevOps

Apr 2, 2024 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I like to think of Scrum Product Owners as mini-CEOs of their product. As such, they should be empowered to drive value in any direction that they desire. This often requires a Product Owner to …

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Facilitating a Nexus Sprint Review

Mar 15, 2024 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Over the years, I’ve been asked multiple times what a Nexus Sprint Review might look like. I’ve not been satisfied with the guidance I’ve found online regarding Nexus Sprint Review, …

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Creating a Custom SSDT Test Condition

Oct 9, 2019 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was teaching our new SSDT2019 class today and, while discussing SQL Server Unit Testing, I was asked why the default Row Count test condition only tested for equality (and not less than, greater …

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