In my work as a consultant I visit many companies. Sometimes for a day and sometimes for a longer period. What I see more than once is that organizations are still organized as departments. For example an application support department or an IT-Pro department. Surely this is not a problem. But what I do see […]
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Mirror, mirror on the wall – A personal retrospective exercise
December 25, 2014 
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During the last year I did quite some Scrum coaching for different teams in different organizations. What I found is that a lot of Scrum teams follow the ceremonies and the rules of Scrum. That is a good thing. What I also found out is that many Scrum teams do not get the most out […]
Continue reading Slidedecks from my talks in TechDays Sweden
November 20, 2014 Comments Off on Slidedecks from my talks in TechDays Sweden
Long time no post, but I have been really busy with travelling and moving to a new house. My travels were first to the MVP Summit in Seattle where I looked into the future of Visual Studio ALM, Team Foundation Server and VSO. Then to the ALM Summit in Barcelona and then to Stockholm to […]
Continue reading Summary of TechDays 2014 Netherlands
April 30, 2014 1 Comment
This year I was invited again to speak on the Dutch TechDays. This Microsoft event is held once every year and is the largest MS event in the Netherlands. I had the honor to provide 2 break-out sessions, 2 lunch sessions and a full day Pre-Conference. In this post I will show you the abstracts, […]
Continue reading A practical guide for dealing with capacikill in TFS
February 19, 2014 4 Comments
Capacikill? What the … is that? Actually it is a word I made up. To be honest it was a colleague who talked about capacity in a noisy room and I thought I heard him say it. I understood capacikill and the word had a meaning to me right away. As you can obviously see, […]
Continue reading TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
October 17, 2013 15 Comments
This is the fifth and final 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 […]
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 Teams without Areas–Fixing the reports
May 13, 2013 1 Comment
As I described in my post about TFS backlog grooming there are several ways to deal with Team in Team Foundation Server 2012. The approach Microsoft uses Out of the Box, is putting a team into the Area Path. The approach I describe in my post puts the team as part of the Iteration Path. […]
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 […]
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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 