My very first encounter with a version control system was CVS. I?ve used this tool for many years (late 90?s, early 2000?s), learning a lot of best practices about source control usage in the process. But there was a lot of friction as well. That is why I switched to Subversion many years ago and […]
Read MoreI know that a lot of people have had bad experiences with TFS over the years, and so does the TFS development team. The team at Microsoft is very intent on learning what it is that people find irritating, problematic, or difficult, and correcting it. Some major headway was made with the 2010 release of […]
Read MoreThere has been much deriding of both Scrum and the word ?certification? in the past few months. It has become quite vogue to look down on formal training of any kind it seems, particularly among the ALT.NETerati. I get it, and I think several of the criticisms are deserved. Some aren?t. Disclosure I am a […]
Read MoreVisual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available on MSDN this morning. It will be more widely available soon. With a new look and feel it is off an running. After working with it for awhile, I can honestly report that it is a pleasurable product to use. Much attention has been paid to aesthetic, and […]
Read MoreTest lists drive me nuts. I recently recorded a screen cast showing how to pull of CI without the test lists. Here ya go! Here’s a link to the screen cast.
Read MoreI wrote an article recently for the Pluralsight newsletter discussing how to use a tool like Team System to drive positive organizational change. Here’s a pointer to the article.
Read MoreAt the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, I got to meet some great people I?d previously known only in electronic form. Tommy Norman is one of those folks, as he and I have had many conversations on Twitter. Tommy is a System Architect at Compuware in Nashville, TN where focuses on Application Lifecycle Management. He […]
Read MoreI am sitting in Sam Guckenheimer’s talk at the Agile 2009 conference entitled, “Agile in the Impossibly Large – Experiences in Microsoft Developer Division.” Sam is effectively the product owner for Team System and an avid Agilista. He has been sharing experiences in Agility from DevDiv for years and freely publishes stats on Microsoft’s teams. […]
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