When working with work items, sometimes it is useful to send the results of a work item query to other people. Even people from outside of your development team. For example the customer wants to know the status of his bugs and does not have access to your systems. In this case you can use […]
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Archive | May, 2011
Removing speaker notes from PowerPoint
May 20, 2011 
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It is not really ALM related but man…I am so glad I know this feature that I really want to share it here. When I speak at seminars or conferences, people always ask you for the slides. I always have a lot of notes in my slides that I don’t want to be shared. Usually […]
Continue readingMy DevDays 2011 Session–Adopting Scrum
May 19, 2011 1 Comment
In April 2011 I co presented the Pre-Conference for the Dutch DevDays. This Pre-Conference was all about adopting Agile Practices. My part was to tell something about adopting Scrum. I already mentioned this in my previous post Below you find the abstract and the link to the Channel 9 Video http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/DevDays/DevDays-2011-Netherlands/devdayspcALM1 Abstract Agile and in […]
Continue readingTwitter Summary of the Future of Visual Studio ALM @ TechEd US
May 18, 2011 Comments Off on Twitter Summary of the Future of Visual Studio ALM @ TechEd US
Yesterday I was looking the video of TechEd US. The Future of Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management. This session of Cameron Skinner gives a really nice overview of the new features that are coming up in Visual Studio vNext. During the session I twittered some things that eventually give a nice summary of what […]
Continue readingManaging your sprint backlog easier with Excel
May 13, 2011 11 Comments
In my previous post I talked about the Excel workbooks in combination with the MS Scrum template. Excel is a great help in quickly organizing and editing your work items. It is however kind of hard to see a good status overview of your work in the current sprint. Main problem is, that Parent Items […]
Continue readingDevDays 2011 Session, Tfs Reports
May 9, 2011 Comments Off on DevDays 2011 Session, Tfs Reports
In my previous post I mentioned my session on the Dutch Event DevDays. The session was recorded and is posted on Channel 9. Unfortunately for the english readers, the session is in Dutch. You can find the video here on Channel 9 You can find the slides in my previous post. Enjoy!
Continue readingUse the MSF Agile workbooks in the MS Scrum template
May 4, 2011 9 Comments
The MSF Agile 5.0 Process Template in Team Foundation Server 2010 comes with a great set of Excel workbooks. These workbooks allow you maintain your Product and Iteration Backlog with Excel. The workbooks contain a set of macros that are very useful, because they transform information from the workbook in a visual appealing way. You […]
Continue readingMicrosoft DevDays 2011–Garbage In–Garbage Out. Inzicht in TFS Reports
May 3, 2011 2 Comments
On the 29th of April I presented on the DevDays 2011 Conference. I talked about TFS reporting and what you need to do to properly fill the reports. Also I showed how to access the warehouse with tools like Excel and Report Builder and what you can do to enter your own data in to […]
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- MIND MATTERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTIVATING A DEVOPS MINDSET
- Knowledge Driven Culture
- Remove the [External] Tag in Outlook
- Aligned Autonomy in Practice
- Building an Engineering Culture
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Using Personal Access Tokens to access Visual Studio Online
- Changing the product backlog in TFS 2012
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Use Visual Studio as your Diff and Merging Tool for local files
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 3 – How to set up my reporting environment and structure
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
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