12 Sep
2012

Visual Studio Launch Event–Seattle

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These are notes from the launch event day. The “take a drink” word of the day? Continuous. General Stuff “Build, Measure, Learn,” is the new mantra. "The new WPF editor in VS is Blend in the background" Brian Harry Said We need to make deployment part of the standard development lifecycle. Modern apps need a […]

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10 Sep
2012

Prefer Integration Over Scrum of Scrums

A Scrum of Scrums (SoS) is what it sounds like: a meeting of Scrum Masters in which issues affecting more than one Development Team are coordinated. This technique has for years been used (and taught) as the primary communication technique for scaling Scrum across multiple Development Teams. Often, the Scrum of Scrums follows a similar […]

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7 Sep
2012

David Starr on Herding Code

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I was recently fortunate enough to be included in a Herding Code episode. The subject matter sort of rambled, as some Herding Code episodes tend to do, but that’s the attraction! We touched a lot of ground and I really appreciate the show. It’s nice to be a guest on a show I listen to […]

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25 Aug
2012

New MSDN Scrum Articles by Me

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I wrote some articles on Scrum and agile for MSDN recently. The articles are now live and I hope they prove useful for you. Thanks to Gregg Boer for the opportunity to get these released on MSDN! The Lean of Scrum Inspect the inherent Lean qualities of the Scrum framework along with various ways to […]

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23 Aug
2012

.NET 4.5 : Operation could destabilize the runtime (yikes!)

Update: Microsoft has since posted an update to .NET Framework 4.5 which resolves this issue. For more information, please visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2748645 The other week I got around to installing Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 RTM bits on my machine – thought it was about time that I made the switch. Though after the installation […]

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30 Jul
2012

I am Joining the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Team

I am delighted to announce I am joining Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in Visual Studio ALM. This comes after long discussions with many great thinkers at Microsoft about the future of agility, software development, and the tooling that can best support it. I am honored to have been selected to join the Visual […]

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