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 …
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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. …
Read more →What's New in the Visual Studio Scrum 2013.2 Process Template
I noticed today that the process templates in Visual Studio Online are showing a “.2” suffix in their names. I’m not exactly sure when this update occurred, but am pretty sure it’s related to Visual …
Read more →Tips to passing the Professional Scrum Developer 1 assessment
Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Developer I (PSD I) assessment measures knowledge of how to build complex software products using Scrum, and allows people to validate this understanding. If you are …
Read more →Measuring the Business Value of a PBI
I’m curious. What do you enter in the Business Value field? Take this PBI work item for example …
According to MSDN you are supposed to type a number that indicates the relative business value of the …
Read more →Who wants to be a Professional Scrum Trainer?
Registration is now open for our Professional Scrum Developer Train The Trainer (TTT) event in Stuttgart, Germany on December 2-6, 2013. This will be the last such event this year.
We are looking for …
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