Monday, November 30, 2009

Limitedwipsociety.org has provided a list of usefull Kanban and Lean Agile tools.  Some are still under construction.  So if you're into this go here and find out the tool that suits you the best: http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/resources/tools/

11/30/2009 8:01:08 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     | 
 Thursday, November 26, 2009

Ghost projects or Deleted team projects that are still visible in Source Control Explorer.  We had this problem at our work.  Thanks to Pieter Gheysens, we now have solved this issue.  Find the solution on his blog here: http://intovsts.net/2009/11/25/deleted-team-projects-still-visible-in-source-control-explorer/

TFS
11/26/2009 7:55:25 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     | 
 Wednesday, November 25, 2009

If you want to export the list of known issues to Excel, you can only export the first 100.  This is a setting done by MS.  You can change this on your TFS server.  Go to "<Disk>:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team System Web Access\Web" and open here the web.config file.  Look for the setting "<maxWorkitemsInReportList count="100"/>".  here you cange the value 100 to another value.

But one remark.  If you set this number too high, you will encounter some performance issues.

TFS
11/25/2009 9:08:56 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     | 
 Thursday, November 19, 2009

Brian Harry wrote a nice blog post about the features of the TFS2010 Powertools.  Read it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/11/18/tfs-2010-power-tools-coming-soon.aspx

TFS
11/19/2009 8:34:26 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     | 
 Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Gabriel Lozano-Moran has a nice post with screenshots of MS Office 2010 Prof Plus x64 Beta.  Go and see: http://gabriel.lozano-moran.name/blog/PermaLink,guid,41672950-00a9-42a9-8bf5-02cc58cc48a6.aspx

11/18/2009 8:10:42 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     | 
 Wednesday, October 28, 2009

I must say, a difficult question, as both methodologies have a different audience and way of use.  Although Kanban is of the same family as Scrum.  in fact, in my opninion it's a light weight Scrum with a more dynamic area.  I'm going to setup Kanban for our team here after my holiday (somewhere around mid november).

But about our question, Doug Shimp has wrote a nice blog article about it.  You can read it here: http://doug-shimp.net/scrum-faq/will-kanban-replace-scrum/

Agile | Scrum | Kanban
10/28/2009 7:57:28 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     | 
 Tuesday, October 27, 2009

You don't know anything about Scrum, but want to know more about it, well here's some help.

Mike Cohn has made a nice presentaiton "Introduce Scrum to your team, ScrumMaster and Product Owner".  The nice thing is that this presentation is already availlable in 14 languages.

Read more here: http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum-a-presentation

Agile | Scrum
10/27/2009 4:07:54 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     | 

Here in Belgium, we pay one of the highest internet prices of the world.  Finally an organisation stands up for it.  Test Aankoop, the belgium customer organisation, started a petition against these prices.  Find all the information on their website: http://www.test-aankoop.be/internet/goedkoper-internet-teken-onze-petitie-s616753.htm (in Dutch) and sign the petition here: http://quask.euroconsumers.org/FormServer/internettarieven_mb.

10/27/2009 7:58:23 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     | 
 Thursday, October 22, 2009

And more release news:

Visual Studio 2010, .Net framework 4.0,n Team Foundation Server 2010 are now in Beta 2.  This beta is open for public.  So go here and download it, install it and enjoy it: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=151797.

10/22/2009 8:08:51 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     | 

Gabriel Lozano-Moran wrote a nice post about crashes of Adobe Flash in Internet Explorer under Windows 7.

Read it here.

Be sure to read my comment on his post, because also Acrobat Reader provides a crash in Internet Explorer.

10/22/2009 8:02:58 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     |