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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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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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Find PBIs Without Test Cases

Oct 8, 2019 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I'm feeling encouraged. It seems that more and more teams, whether they are using automated or manual tests, are using Azure Test Plans to create and track their acceptance testing efforts. I was …

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Creating a Product Backlog Treemap

May 2, 2019 • 5 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Product Backlogs are boring. Not only are they one dimensional, but they are often unordered. This is to say nothing of their potential lack of information as well. (User) story maps are way more …

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Which tests are my regression tests?

Sep 28, 2017 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Although we can’t help you decide which tests should be part of your regression suite, we can help you easily identify them by using tags. Over the years, we’ve seen teams using Team …

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Microsoft, please give us a Scrum process template

Nov 4, 2015 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In 2014, the Scrum Guide was moved off of Scrum.org and posted to ScrumGuides.org. At the same time, all of the major Scrum organizations in the world acknowledged this as the official definition of …

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What’s New in the Visual Studio Scrum 2013.4 Process Template

Nov 14, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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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A unique load testing experiment

Oct 21, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Most of the guidance you’ll find about Visual Studio Ultimate Load Tests suggests that they are only for load testing Web Performance tests. Actually, they can be used to load other types of …

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What's New in the Visual Studio Scrum 2013.2 Process Template

Mar 24, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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