Bad Apple Behaviors
One of my non-technical enjoyments in life is listening to the This American Life podcast, from Public Radio International. It isn’t always my political cup of tea but it is always entertaining. I was...
View ArticleCongratulations, you’ve installed dasBlog with Web Deploy!
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View ArticleTwo Accentient Consultants Named Team System MVPs
I’m pleased to announce that fellow Accentient Consultants David Starr and Michael Vincent have been named Team System MVPs! David Starr is the founder of the Elegant Code community blog and podcast...
View ArticleIndefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)
I’ve been hearing about these type of government contracts more and more lately. I guess they’ve been around for years, but just maybe getting more popular in the circles I travel. IDIQ contracts...
View ArticleThe World Cup: How Sports Unites Us
I was flying on US Airways and was reading their January 2010 issue of their free magazine when I came across an article written by Robert Tuchman. It was titled The World Cup: How Sports Unites Us and...
View ArticleScrum vs Scrum (rugby and process)
I am a huge fan of both Rugby Union and the Scrum methodology. When I first heard of the framework there was a sense of wonderment at the use of the rugby term to describe the development framework....
View ArticleThought for today: TFS build agents are like shared, network printers
Here’s your thought for the day: Think of Team Foundation Build build agents like shared, network printers in a large enterprise. Each printer can be assigned one or more tags such as laser, ink,...
View ArticleSQL 2012 powered by Visual Studio
In case you hadn’t seen it, SQL Management Studio 2012 is now a Visual Studio powered tool. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio,SQL2012,IDE Nice…
View ArticleReporting Waste with TFS
Tracking waste in TFS Overview Tracking waste and gathering the empirical data is one of the most effective ways of convincing people for the need to adapt. This needs an Estimated Effort field, as in...
View ArticleTFS #loc.MinimumNetFXVersion and Windows 2012 0x0000005D
A tale of two error in the path to RC install. I wanted to install the RC of TFS2012 to do some upgrade proving. To keep up to date the target is Windows Server 2012, running SQL 2012, and TFS2012 on...
View ArticleStakeholder Traceroute
I’m always amazed at how difficult and even impossible it can be for stakeholders to get their ideas into some product backlogs. I’ve started asking teams to run a stakeholder traceroute. In other...
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