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Category Archives: Process
ALM Summit: Questioning the Big Bang Theory: The Case for Incremental Change
If you missed Steven Borg’s presentation at the ALM Summit in November, you are in for a treat—channel 9 has provided a fantastic recording of the session: Questioning the Big Bang Theory: The Case for Incremental Change! Many agile methodologies … Continue reading
Posted in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Events, Process
Tagged agile, Kanban, Lean, scrum, WIP
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Retrospective: Northwest Cadence at ALM Summit 2011
I’ve been attending the ALM Summit series since 2006 when it was still called p&p. On my blog this week, I’ve shared some nostalgia about my personal ALM Summit journey… I didn’t mention how I spent all those years pestering … Continue reading
Adding Two New, Useful SSRS Data Sources
Adding Two New, Useful SSRS Data Sources- By James Tupper Introduction Watching the performance of your TFS 2010 server is important. And having reports that show historical trending is very useful. Luckily, Grant Holliday, Microsoft Program Manager for Visual Studio … Continue reading
Stack vs Queue: My Latest Personal Kanban Evolution
I’ve been using a personal kanban board to track my office work ever since reading Personal Kanban by Jim Benson (ourfounder) and Tonianne DeMaria Barry (Sprezzatura). My latest evolution has been to track how much of my work is planned … Continue reading
Do Teams of Cross Functional Individuals Hide Dysfunctions?
I’m struggling with a concept from Toyota Kata, by Mike Rother. The way I’m reading it, teams of cross-functional individuals hide dysfunctions and can slow process improvement efforts. Or, to be precise, allowing cross-functional team members to assist others hides … Continue reading
Posted in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Kanban, Lean, Scrum
Tagged Kanban, Lean, Lean Software Development, scrum, teamwork
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Question on Cross-functional Teams in Scrum
Bottom line question: Can a Scrum team be made up of two testers, two developers, one SQL DBA and a build engineer, each of whom ONLY do their own tasks and work as separate silos within the Team? I’m doing … Continue reading
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Tagged cross-functional, scrum, teams, teamwork
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The Scrum Master has no role in Scrum
I was asked to read the Scrum Guide, by my co-worker Martin Hinshelwood, and take the Open Scrum Guide to prepare myself for the Professional Scrum Master course that he is giving to me and a few other colleagues here … Continue reading
When iterative development causes problems
I should start off by saying that I’m a big fan of Scrum “but”. Scrum imposes strict limits on a number of areas and absolutely requires a number of things being done. And by not doing them you are setting … Continue reading
Posted in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Kanban, Lean, Practices, Process, Scrum, Team Foundation Server
Tagged Kanban, Process, scrum, Team Foundation Server
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Scrum vs Kanban: The Smackdown
Scrum, the grand-daddy of Agile practices vs Kanban the challenger. Come see Martin Hinshelwood (ALM MVP and Scrum proponent) and Steven Borg (ALM MVP and Kanban fan) will go head to head, mano-a-mano, wit against wit, to persuade you which … Continue reading
Can internal competition be considered “Slack”?
Tom DeMarco, in his book “Slack” says “There is no such thing as ‘healthy competition’ in a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive.” Tom DeMarco is a smart man, and I love the book “Slack”, so I hesitate to … Continue reading
The Challenges of Release Management (Part 1 – The Basics)
Release management is generally not just a technical effort. It often includes a great deal of collaboration and orchestration. Continue reading
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Tagged deployment, release management, shrink wrap
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Operations and Development – Working Together – Oh My!
Many in the development world have not yet heard of ITIL, but I believe it will come to matter soon enough. The ability to optimize organizational performance, not simply development performance, is a competitive edge and the path toward lowered … Continue reading
New Radio TFS Episode on Adopting Team System with Steven Borg
A few weeks ago during the MVP summit, I had the wonderful experience of hanging out with Martin Woodward of Teamprise and RadioTFS fame. We chatted for an hour on strategies for adopting TFS successfully, recorded the conversation, and it … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Process, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team System
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Practical Process Improvement (Part 5)
The first four posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) dealt with working through a process for handling bugs and improving that process. But what about preventing bugs to begin with? In this part I’ll talk about some … Continue reading
Posted in Practices, Process, Requirements
Tagged Process Improvement, Test Cases, Testing Requirements, Use Cases
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Practical Process Improvement (Part 4)
In the previous two posts (Part 2 and Part 3) I covered an ideal bug process and the metrics you gather from the process. In this post I’ll start talking about how to use those metrics to really improve the … Continue reading
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Tagged Lean Software Development, Process Improvement, Roles & Responsibilities
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