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Professional Scrum Developer Questions asked at TechEd 2011

May 18, 2011 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Q. We are implementing Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) as part of our ISO certification. How does Scrum fit into the ISO world? We are also adopting 3M’s (our parent company) Lean Six Sigma …

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Debugging a Dysfunctional Team

May 18, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

UPDATE (3 June 2011): Watch the recorded presentation on Channel 9. Yesterday I gave a talk at TechEd on Dysfunctional software development teams. We primarily focused on people dysfunctions, but …

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Top 5 Reasons to use VS Database Projects

Dec 10, 2010 • 4 min read • Simon Reindl

There is a traditional resistance to using database projects – the production system is the reference point, and I have a backup, so what is the problem, right? Since the GDR2 was released, this …

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Upgrading TFS to 2010

Nov 12, 2010 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

At TechEd Europe 2010, I had the privilege to work on the VS2010 Ultimate booth. It was great to meet so many folk, and find out how different people were using TFS and VS2010. One recurring question …

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Managing Projects using Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 (Part 2)

Aug 19, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

UPDATE: The LiveMeeting recording has been posted on Channel 9. Thank you for attending part 2 of our Managing Projects using Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 webcast today. Here are some links and …

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Getting to Done with VS2010

Apr 23, 2010 • 5 min read • Simon Reindl

One of the most critical aspects of any project is when have you got to done. This is one of the central principles of Scrum, as it is the contract between the team that is going to produce something, …

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TFS 2010 Licensing - Multiplexing

Mar 5, 2010 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was reading through the new Visual Studio 2010 Licensing White Paper released a couple of weeks ago. It contains a good explanation and examples of multiplexing scenarios. These sounded very …

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Exporting all work items from all team projects

Dec 18, 2009 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Somebody asked me a simple question the other day: "how do I export all of my work items at once". I suspected they were looking to perform a backup, but it sounded like they might want to import into …

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Custom Check-in Policy for Exactly One Work Item

Dec 15, 2009 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Out of the box, Microsoft has a Work Items check-in policy which requires you to select at least one work item when checking in your code in TFS 2008. If you install the Team Foundation Server Power …

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