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Lean and Kanban Conference Post

I am just back from speaking at the Lean and Kanban Conference in Miami, and it was fantastic.The content was just amazing for anyone interested in increasing IT value to your organization, especially...

Guest Blog Post on Lean Blog

A guest blog post I wrote introducing Kanban for Software development has just been posted on Mark Graban's Lean Blog.  The article is a quick introduction for people familiar with lean conce...

New Lean/Kanban Conference pricing.

For those interested in the Lean/Kanban conference, there are now some pricing breaks.  A great low price before March 16th, and some interesting prices for those in Florida close to the conferen...

Agile 2009 unrest

If you haven't noticed, David Anderson has been making a case for Agile 2009 to have a breaking acts type of stage in the 2009 version, as they had in Agile 2008.  The case David ma...

New article on Kanban

Developer.com published one of my articles that is the first in short series on Kanban.  This article uses a similar method to get the point across as The Goal by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt and &quo...

Podcast with Mary and Tom Poppendieck from Hanselminutes

Belated link, but here's a great podcast from Hanselminutes with an interview with Lean Software folks, Mary and Tom P.  I find it hard to believe that Scott has not encountered these concept...

Kanban Retrospectives

Wow, it's been a while since I blogged.  Summer is busy, busy, schockingly busy!  I wanted to mention the discussion we had recently on the kaban mailing list.  We talked about when...

Kanban Process Template for TFS

I want to announce that I have posted an alpha version of the Kanban Process Template for TFS on codeplex.  The template as currently has a set of Areas and Iterations to help get started wi...

Moving MS Project 2007 global between environments

Hey folks. A quick technical post for anyone starting to implement Project 2007 Server from 2003.  Your enterprise global cannot be easily moved between environments.  This mainly means any ...

More on the Web Service Factory 2008

Looking at the web service factory more I see some possible value.  I had problems installing the version with source,  but it turns out that it was my directory structure.  I init...

Web Service Factory for VS 2008

Just released earlier in February, is the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition for 2008.  This new software factory utilizes the Guidance Automation toolkit in the source code.  An...

Guidance Automation Feb. Release

Quick heads up on a great new tool for teams on the patterns and practices msdn site.  The Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit Feb 2008 release is now out.  This t...

Lean Thinking in Software Engineering

Interesting post over on the Lean Software Engineering blog, "There are no a priori best practices".  In a couple of sentences Corey lays out what I think being Lean is about.  Wha...

Series of Articles on using VSTS

On MSDN, there are a series of articles to help explain how to use VSTS and TFS within a large organization.  Called Global Bank: A Scenario for Visual Studio Team System 2008.  This article...

Visual Studio Team System 2008 and TFS 2008 Virtual Images

Since I use virtual images of TFS for some of the things I'm doing, thought I'd let you know that these virtual machines are available now on MSDN. The nice about these images is the...

MVC for ASP.Net

I'm a little late to the party on this, but Microsoft is going to release their MVC for ASP.NET.  In Object Oriented programming I'm looking at this model, and I'm not initially ...

TDD and Visual Studio Testing

This blog post by Uncle Bob at Objectmentor got me thinking about how Visual Studio automated Testing can help in your Test Driven Development effort.  First off, let me say that I fervently...

More on moving from to Agile from mainstream Project Management

If you need more info on how to move your Project Management organization from mainstream or waterfall project management methods, here is an article from Doug Dicarlo that might be interesting. ...

Project Managers and Testing

Johana Rothman has a great article in stickyminds titled What Project Managers Need To Know About Testing.  Her main point is to make testing an integral part of your project plan.  I would ...

Documenting Work Standards

Corey Ladas has a post about document work standards.  This got me to thinking, how in our kanban we might document our work standards.  Our issue is that we are going all electronic.  ...

Ask Mary Poppendieck questions on Lean!

If you have followed the Agile software development, you most likely have come across Mary and Tom Poppendieck's work like Lean Software Development This might interest you. Schumla is h...

Even More Kanban observations (Part IV)

As I last posted we are going ahead with our Kanban for Change tickets.  The visit with David Anderson (who wrote Agile Management for Software Engineering...) and Corey Ladas (His Blog is L...

More on Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog Part III

[tags: Agile, Project Management, Lean, Change Management]It's been a while since I've posted, but we've finally decided how we plan to implement this new Kanban System for our change tickets.&nb...

More on Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog

 [tags: Agile, Project Management, Lean, Change Management]As I mentioned in a previous post, I've been experimenting with using the I saw David Anderson mention Kanban System to test how th...

Using Kanban to manage your maintainence backlog

[tags: Agile, Project Management, Lean, Change Management] If you have not been looking at how David Anderson is utilizing a Kanban system at Corbis, read his articles on it here.  The ...

Unit Testing Multithreaded methods.

[tags: ASP.NET, Test Driven Development, TDD, C#, VB.NET, Unit Testing]On my latest project, our team encountered an issue where we had to use Threading for our business objec...

Agile Practices do not mean forget the architecture!

[tags: ASP.NET, Orcas, C#, VB.NET, Linq, OR mapping]  Doctor Dobbs has an interesting blog post by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz entitled "If You build it... wil they come".   This post...

What is The Entity Framework?

[tags: ASP.NET, Orcas, C#, VB.NET, Linq, OR mapping] Shawn Wildermuth has an intersting introduction to the Entity Framework on theserverside.net.  This article introduces a new data access c...

More thoughts on Test Driven Development with Sharepoint 2007

I wanted to follow up on my last entry.  One thing I didn't mention in my last post is how the TDD is accomplished.  I believe you can use both Unit Testing and Automated Customer Accept...

TDD development with Sharepoint 2007

    Andrew McConnells recent  blog entry on "Real SDL & TDD for SharePoint".  His call for community leaders to contribut to this discussion.  While I'm not nece...

Experiences from the Agile Front, Finalizing the first release

    On the AgileProjectManagement mailing list on yahoo, someone asked a question about the end of releases for agile projects.  I took this question as one asking how do we comm...

Creating Filtered lookup dropdowns in Sharepoint 2007

[tags: Sharepoint, Sharepoint 2007, MOSS, lookup fields, Sharepoint Designer, Frontpage] For the current project I am lead on, we are using Sharepoint 2007 as the "framework" for our applica...

Evaluating your agile team

[tags: Agile Software Development, Project Management, eXtreme Programming, Crystal, Agile Team] Just read this article http://dan-thinks.blogspot.com/2007/03/agile-team-evaluations-if-you-d...

Experiences from the Agile Front, Using a War Room

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#  for some good practices for leading an agile project.  One practice that I believe helps coding tremendously, is the use of the war roo...

Podcast to prep for PMP Exam

Not exactly a techie post, but if you are working to become a project manager, you may be interested in this.  From the Project Management podcast, Cornelius Fichtner the host has introduced th...

New Project Server blog for developers

[tags: EPM, Microsoft Project, Project Server 2007, PSI] Hey folks, there's a new blog out there from Patrick Conlan, Phil Smail and Chris Boyd (part of the Project Team at Microsoft), ...

Test Automation article with Excel

Here’s an article on how you can complement some of your testing methods using Excel directly for automated tests: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/11/TestRun/default.aspx  Aft...

Agile Project Management and MS Project

I have been following a thread on the Scrum development list on yahoo that included some comments about using MS Project to help track the project.  Some of the comments made the case that usin...

Project Technet Site is Live (Including Upgrade instructions)

The Project Technet site for Project 2007 is now available.  I looked at the upgrade documentation, and am a little concerned about our upgrade.  We have highly customized the sharepoint sid...

A couple of new articles

Just a bit of self promotion here, and I'm looking for some feedback.  I've recently published 2 articles on Crystal Alliance, and was hoping for some feedback on these.  One is called "Cre...

Reporting Services Subscription Bug?

I just recently discovered what I believe is a bug in RS 2005 subscriptions.  I'd love to hear if anyone else has encountered this, and what their workaround is.  The problem I've encounter...

Continuous Integration with Team Foundation Server

Jeff Atwood at Vertigo Software did some refactoring of the CI sample for TFS that Khushboo developed.  The setup was real quick, and I had this version of the sample up and running in < 15 mi...

Great post on Creating an Analysis Server BI Project with TFS

Eric Lee posted a great video on how to create KPI's from the Team Foundation Server warehouse.  Apart from being a great tutorial on how to create new measures for TFS for your organization, I'v...

Project Server 2007 SDK (Beta) is now available

For anyone playing with the new Project Server 2007 Beta 2, there is also an SDK with samples, how-tos etc. here.  While I haven't checked it out yet, I'm really interested in the PSI reference a...

Another reason to upgrade Project Server 2003 to sp2

In doing some routine maintanence for an instance of Project Server, I discovered a reason to upgrade our version of Project Server from sp1 to sp2.  Now why weren't already there is a different ...

Visual Source Safe to TFS Webcast archive.

This may be a bit of old news, but for folks looking to migrate VSS to TFS (as we are), I discovered a webcast covering this very topic.  I stumbled across this after I downloaded David Andersons...

MSF Agile Project Template

It's been a while since I posted, and my last post was about the lack of an MSF Agile Project Template in the list of Templates available in Project 12.  I'm also a little miffed that the Microso...

Visual Studio Team System Presenation at MADNUG tonight!

If you happen to be near South Bend, IN tonight, don't forget to stop by the MADNUG meeting at Signal Learning.  Paul Hacker from Notion Solutions is giving a talk on Architecting Solutions using...

Some interesting webcasts from INETA.

I noticed some interesting webcasts that are available to INETA members (chances are if you belong to a .NET users group you are a member).  You can check out the list here.  I thought ...

New VSTS Methodology templates

Conchango has released the Scrum Templates for Visual Studio Team System.  These are free add-ins, so enjoy!.  Hat tip to David Anderson at Agile Projectmanagement....

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