You may have noticed when creating a new Scrum team project in Visual Studio Online or Team Foundation Server 2015, that the iteration list looks a bit different. Yes, Microsoft flattened out the …
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Turn off the Diagnostics Tools window in Visual Studio 2015
I’m sure it’s awesome. I’m sure it doesn’t impact performance (much). I’m sure my apps would be more awesome if I used it, but …
… today I want to turn off …
Read more →Turn off Automatic Updates on Windows 10 Professional
Call me weird, but when I create and maintain virtual machines for demonstration and training, I like to be in control of if/when Windows updates are installed. This is fit for purpose since …
Read more →Update: Added additional links for my same talks at VSLive! in San Francisco today (17 June, 2015)
Thank you to those who attended my two talks today. I enjoyed our conversation about Technical Debt …
Read more →Use Excel to Create Repetitive Work Items
Teams often ask me for any shortcuts to periodically creating the same work items, such as for each sprint or release. In other words, they want to create the same Product Backlog Item or Task (but …
Read more →Promoting a PBI to a Feature (Epic)
For Scrum Teams using TFS 2013 to create and manage their Product Backlog, they may want to take advantage of the new Agile Portfolio. This “higher level” backlog allows a team or …
Read more →Team members in the Readers group can create work items!
Watch out. This could happen to you and your team.
Let’s assume you have a single team project with three teams (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato) …
Next, let’s assume you have Jake, a …
Read more →Using the Kanban Board to Implement a Definition of Ready
More and more teams are adopting a Definition of Ready (also known as DoR or Readiness Criteria) to avoid starting work on PBIs that are ill-defined, such as those that do not have clearly defined …
Read more →What’s New in the Visual Studio Scrum 2013.4 Process Template
Many Visual Studio and .NET announcements were made this week. A minor one was the RTM of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4. This update included improvements and bug fixes to Team Foundation Server 2013. …
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