Monday, September 29th, 2008
Bugs! How do you handle fixing bugs and enhancement requests on an existing release of your product while your team(s) are working on the next release? Typically as you start work on a new version of your product there will be bugs or enhancement requests coming in from users of ...
Tags: agile, Large teams, Proven practices, Scrum
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Teams at patterns & practices use Visual Studio Team System to run their projects. Here are a couple of approaches for getting a traditional Scrum or XP task board experience with Team System; creating paper task cards from Team System using Word's mail merge feature and the Conchango Scrum for ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Proven practices, Scrum, Visual Studio
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
I've added a page of slide decks for talks I've given over the past couple of years. I'll be adding more when I get more time.
Tags: Events, Proven practices
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
My talk on the patterns & practices Service Factory:ME team's experiences with Continuous Integration (CI) and our data analysis of the CI and Team Foundation Server logs is this morning at Agile 2008. You can find the presentation for this talk here:
One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration - slide deck
One ...
Tags: agile, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Events, Microsoft, p&p, Proven practices, Static analysis, Toronto
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Playing music in your team room? Who gets to pick it and for how long? Here's the "rules" we use in the patterns & practices team rooms:
Music rotates each hour
Everyone gets an hour to play the music they want
At the end of the hour someone else gets the next hour
At ...
Tags: agile, Proven practices
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