Richard Fennell : Agile

Nice explanation of using Kanban for support

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:45:50 GMT

Doron at Typemock has posted a nice description of how they use Kanban for managing support . A good introduction for those unfamiliar with lean...(read more)

Slides from yesterdays presentation at VBUG

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:28:37 GMT

Thanks to everyone who attended my VBUG session yesterday on ‘Enabling agile development with Visual Studio Team System 2010’. I have just posted the slides on Black Marble’s web site...(read more)

July Agile Yorkshire meeting

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:12:42 GMT

Don’t forget this month’s Agile Yorkshire meeting is this Wednesday at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds. It is the usual mix of free beer, great conversation and an excellent speaker (note: you can assign your own ranking order as these factors, using a suitable...(read more)

Post Developer Day South West thoughts

But it works on my PC! — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:47:08 GMT

DD-SW in Taunton seems to go well, a big thank you to Guy and the rest of the Bristol .NET user group for all their work getting this event up and running. Also it was nice to see new faces, it is certainly a good idea to get the DDD family events out...(read more)

Developer Day South West is this weekend

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:58:35 GMT

It is Developer Day South West this weekend where I will be speaking on Scrum . I may also do a lunch time grok talk on SharePoint and Typemock Isolator as I did at Developer Day Scotland . I think there are still spaces at this event, so if you can make...(read more)

Alt.Net UK Conference 2009

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:15:25 GMT

Good news, there will be an Alt.Net UK Conference in London over the first weekend of August. Bit of a different format this time: Alt.Net Beers A social opportunity to discuss Alt.Net over a few beers. Friday, July 31, 2009 from 6:00 PM until...(read more)

Next Agile Yorkshire Meeting – Exploratory Testing

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:34:43 GMT

Next months Agile Yorkshire meeting is on the 13th May where Ralph Williams will be talking about Exploratory Testing , the session outline sound interesting....(read more)

Holiday is when you catch up…..

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:22:46 GMT

I got round to listening to the latest Radio TFS podcast today whist our for a run, Adopting Team System with Steve Borg . If you are looking at adopting TFS or even just critically looking at your development life cycle with a view to improving (irrespective...(read more)

patterns & practices Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:11:20 GMT

Robert blogged about the new beta release of the patterns & practices Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance document. I have had a chance to do a quick read now and I have to say I am impressed. If nothing else it gives great comparative look at waterfall...(read more)

TFS Iterations not appearing in IterationPath

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:35:14 GMT

I have been working on site that has had to do a disaster recovery of their TFS application tier (AT) due to hardware failure. For a short period they have had to use a spare PC as their AT. Due to the hast required to get the developers working this...(read more)

eScrum 1,1 available

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:23:24 GMT

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...(read more)