Tag: Preferred Practice

Jul 14, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

OK, let’s say you’re on a Scrum team that’s planning its next iteration. You pull a story to implement Feature X for the next release of Application Y. You review the specs, maybe have a conversation …

Scrum Preferred Practice Testing

Two Types of Bugs

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 …

Scrum Preferred Practice Development Azure Boards

Process improvement comment by Randy Eppinger

Jun 3, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In the process improvement goal setting post a few days back, I stressed the importance of making your goals specific (and thus measurable). Randy Eppinger made a good comment, and I felt to make it a …

Preferred Practice Visual Studio ALM Testing

Be specific when writing TFS and process improvement goals

May 30, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

“Reduce rework”, “Hit scheduled release dates”, “Improve developer productivity”… We see these all the time as we work with companies on their process …

Preferred Practice Misc Visual Studio ALM Testing

VS2005 Template for listening to TFS Events

Apr 24, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’ve posted about this before, however, it’s so important I’ll repost. If you’re trying to create a listener web service for TFS events, don’t start from scratch! Use …

Preferred Practice Visual Studio Tools ALM

Productivity Best Practice

Apr 14, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

One of the best things software development shops can do to improve productivity is to set Outlook to only check email once every hour (or 30 minutes at least). This is because people tend to take …

Preferred Practice Misc Visual Studio ALM

Shipping unit tests with your shrinkwrapped software

Apr 12, 2007 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last year, at PDC, I sat down with Adam Cogan, of SSW, during an MSDN magazine party. Feeling the guilty pleasure of totally geeking out while a decent party was going on, Adam led a group of geeks …

Preferred Practice Tools Visual Studio ALM Azure Test Plans Testing

Agile Tool - 3x5 Cards that both shuffle and stick

Mar 14, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's a great tool for agile development that was mentioned in a blog post below. Go get a stack of these! Shuffle them, pass them around, put your use stories on them, and slap them …

Preferred Practice Misc Tools

Version Control Structure - Best Practice

Jan 16, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Bottom line up front: Create a ‘root’ branch directly under the source control branch associated with a new Team Project. I see this all the time… Someone creates a new source …

Preferred Practice Visual Studio ALM