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Slides from “Software Testing with VS2013 and TFS2013” at Visual Studio Live Orlando 2013
I spoke at VSLive Orlando 2013 last month and did a talk called “Software Testing with Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013”. Software Testing with Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 both have a major focus on testing and quality. There are the…
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Slides from “How to be a C# Ninja” at Visual Studio Live Orlando 2013
I spoke at VSLive Orlando 2013 last month and did a talk called “How to Be a C# Ninja in 10 Easy Steps”. How to Be a C# Ninja in 10 Easy Steps Are you new to C# and want to get awesome? Are you pretty good at C# and want to raise your game?…
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Slides from “Good to Great Scrum Master” at DevTeach Vancouver 2013
I spoke at DevTeach Vancouver 2013 last month and did a talk called “10 Ways to Go from Good to Great Scrum Master”. 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great Scrum Master The Scrum Master role in an organization can be difficult. You live between a rock and a hard place. You’re influential but…
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Slides from “Real World Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2013” at DevTeach Vancouver 2013
I spoke at DevTeach Vancouver 2013 last month and did a talk called “Real World Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2013”. Real World Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2013 You’ve got Team Foundation Server 2013 and you’re looking to do Scrum. Ok. Great. Now what does that mean? What does TFS2013 actually do to help…
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Professional Scrum for Teams class in Cambridge, MA on Feb 24 & 25.
Since my last public Scrum class was a success, I decided to schedule another one. I’ll be running the Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) course – also known as “Professional Scrum for Teams” – in Cambridge, MA on February 24th & 25th, 2014. (registration info) This 2-day course prepares students to effectively use Scrum through a…
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XML utility methods for C#
It’s tough to work on a project that doesn’t involve XML. XML is everywhere and I kept needing to do the same things again and again from project to project. I took my C# XML utility methods, converted them to extension methods, and then put them into a class that I could drop in to…
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Some missing command line utilities for Team Foundation Server 2013
I feel like I’ve been spending my life doing Team Foundation Server migrations and upgrades lately. (It’s only partially true.) Anyway, there have been a handful of command line tools for TFS2013 that I’ve wanted and just got around to writing them. Here are the features: List work item folders for a Team Project List…
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TFS2013: Ways to add a linked child Task a Product Backlog Item (PBI)
A couple of days ago a customer asked me what the best way to add new Task to a Product Backlog Item (PBI) during the Daily Scrum meeting or a Scrum Sprint Planning meeting. When I started working on the reply, I realized that there are quite a few ways to add a related child…
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Team Foundation Server 2013 Install Guide
[May 28, 2014 Update: there’s a new version of this guide] I’ve been spending a lot of time playing with Team Foundation Server 2013 lately and I’ve done a handful of installs. I created an installation guide with screenshots of each step to help make the process go more smoothly. At the moment, it only has Chapters for…
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Tip: Streamline PBI management in a multi-team Scrum Backlog with TFS2012 & TFS2013
Ok. So you’re doing Scrum and you’re using Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS2012) or Team Foundation Server 2013 (TFS2013) to plan and manage your work. If you’re like a lot of companies, you’ve got more than one Scrum Team working on different features. Team Foundation Server does a good job of managing multiple teams inside…