This Friday I will be presenting on TFS vNext with fellow ALM Ranger and MVP Bob Hardister at the Austin TFS Users Group. We will be covering: Requirements solicitation and review: story boards and stakeholder feedback Agile project management...

Brian Black and Willy Peter-Schaub have just published an amazing article in the September issue of MSDN Magazine called “Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Reflections on Virtual Teams” detailing their experiences in managing the ALM Ranger projects. I know...

This week I am participating of the ALM Summit . We have a great attendance of a diverse audience, comprised of ALM leaders in several Fortune 500 companies, plus Microsoft ALM MVPs and ALM Rangers. All the presentations have been great in pointing to...

VS 2010 was released today, and it has a great many novelties on the client and .NET Framework aspects. What calls my attention though is that we are now one step closer to fulfilling the sense of ALM 2.0 – an integrated, transparent environment where...

This year has been such a continuous wave that I am still catching my breath. How do I start? I had a brief stint with the MSF Team (now called VSTS Process Team ) that finished in October 2007. I wanted but couldn’t stay – my family is not yet ready...

I touched on this topic on a previous post in December, when I mentioned that Andrew Delin from the VSTS Process team was working on a comprehensive whitepaper to be delivered sometime in 2008. And here it is: Sarbanes-Oxley 404 and Visual Studio Team...

Normally I would post the resolution for this issue in the appropriate VSTS/TFS forum, but since posting there does not include pictures, here it goes. Note : Error 29112 is a catch-all code. This blog post only handles one possible case. A blog that...

Our culture owes a lot to the influence of Newtonian mechanics in shaping the thinking in other areas, such as in Psychology with the notion of " energy ". Even though this usage is obsolete within professional circles, the expression is still an active...

I have been to a few customers who have implemented or are implementing Sarbanes-Oxley (SarbOx or SOX) compliance in their development processes using VSTS. Andrew Delin from the VSTS Process team is creating a whitepaper on how to do that with VSTS....

I did a presentation for the VSTS Inner Circle in September 11th, and I am still getting requests for the video link and slides. Here they go: Fundamentals of ALM Abstract : What you should know to elevate an enterprise to an intermediate...

Some Agile and/or ALM adoption efforts are canceled midstream because of lack of understanding of the basics of finding a suitable candidate development project. I have seen in more than a single situation that the chosen project is cutting edge in all...

It has been a busy year, and as any Agilista will tell you, it is time for a retrospective. Here is a picture of what my mind has been over the last year - all nice and fun, but very busy: Well, that's not actually the picture - my mind is more organized...

The XP literature includes sorting work items by risk, although it doesn’t seem to be the current standard: William Wake’s is a well known Agilista that has included it in his early but very nice and still useful XP description in here . This February...

The first meeting happened last 4th of September, and you can get more details at the Agile Austin website. In the first talk, Jim Van Riper, VP of Product Planning and Development from Troux Technologies, shared the inside story of adopting Agile...

There was a session I forgot to mention from my post yesterday, but that was one of the best. Here is the complete summary so you have an idea of what was covered: DEV02-TLC - Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for Small Agile Teams Monday, June 4 4...

So today TechEd 2007 starts. I will be at the event helping on the Patterns and Practices booth, and also presenting on MSF for CMMI Process Improvement at the end of the week. Here is what I am planning to attend (my presentation included), all related...

Once again a few friends (in this case, Fabio Camara , and Andrew Delin, both in the same week :-) ) ask me why I haven't been blogging. It seems that every time we have a conversation, they point out it could easily have been made into a blog entry....

"23 and a half Rules of Thumb for Software Development" is a classic video of a speech that Jim McCarthy made to Microsoft Consulting Services. It has been shown worldwide to anyone taking MSF training, as part of the "Principles of Application Development...

The weather in Minneapolis was warm this year, and so was figuratively speaking the Agile 2006 Conference, which had all sorts of interesting discussions going on anywhere - lobbies, dining rooms, sessions. I felt at home for its informality, and definitely...

Johan Traa has just published a comparative study on RUP vs MSF for Agile Software Development: "MSF Documentation: RUP vs. MSF - A comparative study". Check the post at the MSF Forum . It is really worth the reading. He adds new material to...

Andrew Delin was asking me the other day what had happened so I didn't blog anymore after January. And the answer is, life got in the way big time! Without going into details, I still kept very active in the MSF and TFS world: Participated of the SEPG...

If you are not interested in the not so subtle Dilbert comics, you might want to start reading David Anderson's blog for subtle Scottish wit in between some serious postings that are among the best in the industry.

I was talking to my good friend Andrew Delin about how the original MSF 1.0 had several concepts which today are associated with Agile methodologies. One such concept was the polemic "Why No Requirements Document?" one. The main point in this...

As a new blogger (out of hundreds of thousands already out there), and as a developer, my first post had to be "Hello World". I fondly remember my first experiences with Turbo Pascal 5.0, at the time the best development tool available. You...