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eScrum 1,1 available
21 August 08 09:23 AM | Richard | with no comments
For those who have not seen it eScrum 1.1 is now available. This basically a update for the installer so it works on VS2008 so you don't have to go through all the manual fiddling you had to in the past . So if you want a nice simple agile team project...
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Moving the document store in TFS
07 August 08 03:50 PM | Richard | with no comments
I have at last got round to moving the location of the WSS sites used by our TFS server from the WSS instance running on our TFS Application Tier (AT) to our main 64bit MOSS 2007 server farm. A job I have been putting off for ages. I decided that there...
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Back home from the IMTC
05 April 08 02:31 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)
After an uneventful journey I have got home from the IMTC conference in Dublin. Thanks to the organiser for running the event, it seemed to go well. I hope I managed to answer any question my sessions on SQL BI and Scrum raised, if not send a message...
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More sessions in Ireland next week
27 March 08 02:14 PM | Richard | with no comments
Just found out that Robert and myself are both now doing two sessions at the Irish Microsoft Technologies Conference next week. Thursday 13:45 - BI in SQL 08 (Richard Fennell) 16:45 - Microsoft Volta: Next Gen .NET Client-Server Apps (Robert Hogg) Friday...
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New release of VSTS Scrum Process Template
26 March 08 08:29 PM | Richard | with no comments
I see there has been a release of the VSTS Scrum Process Template for VS2008 on CodePlex , so adding a way to run Scrum projects with the current release of TFS without the fiddling required for eScrum . It looks good, but is missing for me the best part...
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Great Scrum Video
04 January 08 10:19 AM | Richard | with no comments
I have just had pointed out to me there is a great video about Google's use of Scrum . It is a presentation done by Jeff Sutherland one of the founders of Scrum. Take a look it is well worth it.
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Fun with a DDD6 demo
17 November 07 10:45 PM | Richard | with no comments
I have been working on my DDD6 demo, I intend to show eScrum at end of my session on Scrum. I thought I would use the VPC I had from DDD5, this was based on the TFS Orcas Beta1 and had all the tools I wanted configured. To get some more realistic data...
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DDD news
12 October 07 02:23 PM | Richard | with no comments
The voting for DDD6 is now open - as I always say vote early vote often. I hope my submission of a proposal for a session on Scrum is of interest. I know I have had feedback on my previous sessions that people want to know more on this area. Also saw...
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Javascript errors with Escrum
04 October 07 06:59 PM | Richard | with no comments
Whilst sorting our eScrum installation I kept getting a variety of Javascript errors when selecting a project using the dialog on the top right of the main web form. I also was unable to create new product via the web site. It turned out to be two problems...
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TFS Update to 2008 Beta2 and Escrum Admin
02 October 07 02:33 PM | Richard | with no comments
As I posted before I have been updating our TFS server to 2008 Beta2, today it was the WSS from 2.0 to 3.0. Well I followed the process on Sudhir Hasbe's blog and it just worked, so now we have WSS3.0 running the the TFS application tier. The final...
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Empty Reports with the eScrum Template
12 July 07 01:40 PM | Richard | with no comments
After I installed the eScrum template everything seemed fine bar the reports, only the work item report showed anything, in fact on the other reports their parameter combo boxes were empty. The key difference is the workitem report is drawn form the SQL...
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DDD5, thoughts the day after...........
01 July 07 08:30 PM | Richard | with no comments
After not really enough sleep it seems a good time reflect on DDD5. My session I felt my session went well, and the initial feedback was good. It is always good to be asked question all day about your session, proves it got people thinking; I certainly...
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eScrum 1.0
23 June 07 10:23 PM | Richard | with no comments
I have been looking at eScrum and first impressions are good. This is not the first Scrum process template for TFS, there is also the one from Conchango . My feeling over the Conchango one was that it seemed very like the standard MSF Agile template,...
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My Presentation at the Extreme Programming Club
09 March 07 04:10 PM | Richard | with no comments
I did my presentation on Scrum last night for the Extreme programming club in Leeds, seemed to go down well. A lively discussion was had on Scrum and a whole bunch of agile issues. If anyone has questions post them on the club forum . The next meeting...
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Speaking on Scrum
03 March 07 05:49 PM | Richard | with no comments
I will be speaking about Scrum at the second Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club meeting next Thursday 8th March at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds. So if you are interested in a quick introduction to Scrum, or just want to meet other developers in the Yorkshire...
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