Setting Up a Continuous Integration Server with Team Foundation Server (TFS)
What is Continuous Integration? The goal of continuous integration is to allow developers to check in their code, compile it, run the tests, and deploy the application all in a single step. To...
View ArticleManaging Projects with Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Recently at Learning Tree, we wrote a training course on Team Foundation Server (course 1816, Agile Software Development with Team Foundation Server). It seemed natural to use TFS to manage the course...
View ArticleUnderstanding Team Foundation Server (TFS) Pricing
I used to think Team Foundation Server was expensive. As it turns out, it is very affordable and sometimes free. There are three different versions of TFS: Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation...
View ArticlePMI’s New Agile Project Management Certification
PMI is currently piloting a new project management certification focusing on applying agile techniques as part of project management. The agile approach to project management is intended to enhance...
View Article“Agile” Cloud Computing
Agile I often see the word “Agile” associated with cloud computing. That’s a word I know well. I wrote a class on Agile Programming, and I teach XP and SCRUM. I believe I’m Agile in my projects. But...
View ArticleAttending the APMG-Sponsored Webinar about Integrating Agile into PRINCE2 on...
Why be traditional with your PRINCE2 project management methodology when you can integrate agile methods within your approach and enhance your project success? Sure seems like agile methods and...
View ArticleReady to Make a Change to Agile? Make it STICKY!
“Change means uncertainty; uncertainly breeds opportunity.” Japanese saying “Uncertainty is the breeding ground of all great possibility!” Jennifer Chrisman Are you ready to adopt Agile...
View ArticleCollapsed Scrum
There is nothing more dangerous in the game of Rugby Union than the collapsed scrum. Think of it. Eight hunking great forwards (many sporting flattened noses and cauliflower ears that advertise their...
View ArticleWhere Do BA’s Live in the Agile Ecosystem?
“Where do Business Analysts live in the Agile ecosystem?”, or some variant of this question, is probably the one I am most often asked in my consultancy engagements. It pops up at different times in...
View ArticleWhy Scrum is Bigger on the Inside Than it Appears on the Outside
The BBC’s Dr. Who is one of the most popular TV science fiction series world-wide. I recently took advantage of a trip to a client’s site in Cardiff Bay to visit the Dr. Who Experience there, and...
View ArticleHow to Achieve a Successful Agile Implementation
The latest installment in our Technical Insights series answers this question for you. It covers topics such as – What is the Agile methodology and where can it be applied? What are four essential...
View ArticleScaling Agile: Is it The Next Big Thing?
“What’s the next big thing in Agile?” is a question I’ve been asked a lot over the years. Answering used to make me a feel a little awkward. It was almost as though the questioner is treating Agile as...
View ArticleUsing Scrum? Get Certified!
It is always amusing for a speaker of UK English to hear an American professional declare that they are certified. To be certified in the UK means that a Doctor or a social worker has committed you to...
View ArticleFree Webinar – Solve your Agile Implementation Challenges
What are the most common barriers to large-scale Agile adoption and how can you overcome them? How can you choose the right metrics to measure in Agile? Join us on May 21, 2015 at 10:00a.m. EDT for...
View ArticleShould I Pursue Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification?
As mentioned in a previous post on the value of Scrum certifications, I became a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) in May 2011, some thirteen years after I first engaged with Scrum. The reasons as...
View ArticleWhy Ranting That “Scrum is Terrible” is a Straw Man Argument
My good friend and colleague at Learning Tree, Doug Rehnstrom, sent me a link last month to a blog post by Michael O. Church entitled “Why ‘Agile’ and especially Scrum are Terrible”. My first reaction...
View ArticleThe World is Becoming Scrummier
Hot on the heels of my response to Michael O. Church’s tirade against Scrum comes the State of Scrum report: the results of a survey conducted by the Scrum Alliance. There’s bad news for Mr. Church who...
View ArticleJust-in-Time Scaling Agile
Scaling Agile is a hot topic. Adverts for courses on SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) seem to be everywhere. Then there is DAD (Disciplined Agile Development – from IBM) and...
View ArticleHow to Use Agile to Build Data Warehouses
This article will make the case for using Agile to build Data Warehouses. There are many who say that creating an enterprise-level database or data warehouse requires BDUF. They will argue that it is...
View ArticleIs Agile Design an Oxymoron?
There is a persistent myth that Agile Design is an oxymoron as there is no place for design in Agile; that our design and architecture will magically emerge as we code. This opinion is a natural...
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