Road to ALM

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  • Overview of Visual Studio 2013 RC posts

    Overview of Visual Studio 2013 RC posts

    Visual Studio 2013 has just launched. In the meanwhile a great number of bloggers and MVP’s have written great posts about the new features in the VS 2013 RC I will update this post with the latest links. Make sure you keep posted! Updated: 1-10-2013 Here you find an overview…

  • Another year as Visual Studio ALM MVP

    Another year as Visual Studio ALM MVP

    Yesterday I received it. The “Congratulations 2013 Microsoft MVP!” email. And I must say…I felt relieved. Last year I received the MVP award for the first time so it was my first full year as MVP. In the beginning it felt strange…What Now? What do they expect of me? But…

  • TechDays Netherlands 2013–TFS as perfect tool for Scrum

    TechDays Netherlands 2013–TFS as perfect tool for Scrum

    Today I presented at TechDays Netherlands in the World Forum in The Hague. My session subject was “TFS as perfect tool for Scrum”. My session was about how to use TFS as tool for Scrum. I talked about the different stages of Scrum, and what TFS can do in these…

  • Speaking on Techdays 2013

    Speaking on Techdays 2013

    This year I will be speaking again on the largest dutch developer event. Microsoft Techdays 2013. I will do 2 sessions. A full day pre-conference about Scrum. What is it, How can you apply it and what is the role of a tool like TFS within Scrum. The second day…

  • SDN Talk – Continuous Delivery with 2012

    At this year’s SDN event I talked about Continuous Delivery with Team Foundation Server 2012.   My slidedeck is available for download at http://wp.me/aYgWl-8h. Thanks for attending!

  • The road to Visual Studio ALM MVP

    Yesterday (on the tricky date April 1st) I received an email from Microsoft. It started with: “Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We…

  • Delta-N launches TFS Attacher for Windows Phone 7

    Last week Delta-N, the company I work for, launched the TFS Attacher for Windows Phone 7 on the marketplace. This is great news. We built this application with the following scenario in mind, During Sprint planning meetings or just 1 on 1 meetings we work our way through Product Backlog…

  • Status update: TechDays session cancelled and article published

    First of all happy new year to everybody! I did not blog for a while because of some personal circumstances. But now I will try to make some regular posts again. Because of these personal circumstances I cancelled my session “Hidden Gems in TFS” on the Dutch Techdays 2012. I…

  • My DevDays 2011 Session–Adopting Scrum

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Microsoft DevDays 2011–Garbage In–Garbage Out. Inzicht in TFS Reports

    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…

  • Microsoft DevDays 2011–Adopting Scrum

    On the 27th of April I presented on the DevDays 2011 ALM Pre conference. I talked about Adopting Scrum. I started the presentation with the basics of Scrum, showed how to “sell” Scrum in your organization. After that, I showed how to use Visual Studio Team Foundation Server as the…

  • The road to the DevDays 2011

    DevDays. It is the biggest Developer event in the Netherlands. I cannot remember exactly when I visited the DevDays for the first time, but that is getting bigger every year is pretty obvious. The biggest difference with other events in the Netherlands is the great variety of speakers and the…

  • Presentation dotNed meeting 23-6-2010

    On June 23 june, I gave a presentation for the dotNed gebruikersgroep in the Netherlands. The presentation was about “Selecting an Optimal Branching and Merging strategy”. The slides can be downloaded here.

  • Finally my own blog

    This blog will start shortly n providing information about ALM, ALM Tools and above all Microsoft Team Foundation Server