In 2011, Marc Andreesen made an often quoted statement “Software Is Eating the World”. Now, about 11 years later I think we can all agree on the fact that this is true and every company has become a software company. Ok ok ok, I agree, there are some exceptions. The bakery, the butcher or the […]
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Delta-N wins Western European ALM Partner Award
October 10, 2013 
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This week I attended the Western European ALM Partner Summit in my role as Business Unit Manager of the ALM unit within Delta-N. The summit was 2 days and was held in Haarlem. The summit is meant for partners who are active in the ALM space and provide them with information about the business and […]
Continue reading TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 4) – Sprint
July 11, 2013 1 Comment
This is the fourth part of the series TFS as perfect tool for Scrum. The series is based on my session that I presented at Microsoft TechDays. You can find more introduction in part 1 The agenda for this series is: 1. Introduction in Scrum and TFS 2. Using TFS for grooming your Product Backlog […]
Continue reading TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 3) – Sprint Planning
May 6, 2013 14 Comments
This is the third part of the series TFS as perfect tool for Scrum. The series is based on my session that I presented at Microsoft TechDays. You can find more introduction in part 1 The agenda for this series is: 1. Introduction in Scrum and TFS 2. Using TFS for grooming your Product Backlog […]
Continue reading TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 2) – Product Backlog Grooming
April 7, 2013 7 Comments
This is the second part of the series TFS as perfect tool for Scrum. The series is based on my session that I presented at Microsoft TechDays. You can find more introduction in part 1 The agenda for this series is: 1. Introduction in Scrum and TFS 2. Using TFS for grooming your Product Backlog […]
Continue reading Keep track of your Team Projects Process Template Version
April 4, 2013 6 Comments
The company I work for (Delta-N), is a service company. We built software for various customers and we do so by means of projects. It should not surprise you that we maintain all our development projects in Team Foundation Server and, since we use TFS since the first version (TFS 2005), we do have a […]
Continue reading Another year as Visual Studio ALM MVP
April 2, 2013 Comments Off on 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 later I realized that I […]
Continue reading TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 1) – Introduction in Scrum and TFS
March 18, 2013 7 Comments
This year I was invited again to present at Microsoft TechDays. This event is held every year in the World Forum in The Hague. This year I spoke about why TFS is the perfect tool for Scrum. My session was about how to use TFS as tool for Scrum. I talked about the different stages […]
Continue reading TechDays Netherlands 2013–TFS as perfect tool for Scrum
March 7, 2013 1 Comment
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 stages. For example, Where to […]
Continue readingDeleting (or destroying) a Global List with the TFS API
January 9, 2013 12 Comments
One of the most used features in TFS Work Items are Global Lists. We use global lists very frequently because it save a lot of time in maintaining list data amongst different Team Projects. What we also do very often is adding and removing items to and from a global list. This article from Shai […]
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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
The Road to ALM 