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First, I'll repeat the news that's all over: Microsoft has released the "final" version of Silverlight 2.0 to the world! This is a major step for .NET developers, because it means we can do really incredible things on the web without massive injections
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Every few months something triggers a series of thoughts in my head about overtime practices, behaviours, and incentives. Every time I think about it, my thoughts come back to a question of the relative incentives in the way our software development system.
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Wow, so much I probably should talk about, but I don't even know where to start. Massive amounts of networking, information, realization, and even contribution going on, and I can't unravel it at all right now. I think there's a lot of potential for transforming
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Wow - it's been over thirty days since my last post. What's changed since then? First, we've put http://inkubook.com into production. I'm very proud of the work I've done and that my team has done on this one. We killed ourselves getting it done, but
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Our team has decided to take a step back towards scrum and away from our previous semi-Kanban approach. I think that it's a good plan at this time, although I also suspect that many of the benefits of our earlier approach will continue to show through.
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The concepts surrounding batch size have been floating around my head again in recent days. My current assignment is a rather large batch of work with Silverlight 2.0, but it's one that I've been able to subdivide into a number of small batches that rapidly
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Thursday, after the main IndyNDA event, I performed my first public presentation. I've presented to teams, classrooms, and my company before, but this is the first time I've had the opportunity to present to an uncontrolled group of my professional peers.
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Attachment(s): Rich Branch Management.ppt
I rarely repost, but this single, fairly short article seems to hit many of the high points in a very condensed format. If I were in a southern church hearing this read i would expect a constant stream of "Amen" echoing around me. Read it. Think about
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Subject: "Today's scrums will be held in front of the kanban board." Yes, it was followed with: " That’s the one with all of the post-its. " But, this is a huge step towards better flow, which has been an issue for months.
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I don't like to call out individual blame, but sometimes a bit o' shame is what it takes... this query, when run against the (2008 version) version control database in TFS will give you a nice summary and detail pair that can be dropped into excel, or
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Well, Bernardo got a new job, I got a new role. I've been officially promoted to Software Architect here at Authorhouse, effective immediately. This role change led me to think more about what the role of architect really means, and I've come to really
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Had my first ever sprint wrap-up meeting. I knew it wouldn't be too bad, but I've been wanting to get some sort of recycle on project phases for a couple different positions now, and was glad to see how one was run, especially since I'm in the middle
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It's much easier to tell somebody why they're wrong than it is to tell them how to do it right. Thus, build something quick and dirty (even as a thought exercise), and THEN figure out what's "right". Prototypes. Agile. RAD. Models. Alphas. Betas. Every
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I'm back to Vault (and DevTrack) at my new job... it's not so bad, even though I do love the many integration possibilities that Team Foundation offers between the different components. That said, since I've had a lot of experience with Vault in the past,
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It was very nice this morning to have a daily stand-up be the first thing of my first day at the office. It gave me a great feel for what the various team members were up to and how they were going about the project, and this was before I even really
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I really find Michael's post resonating with me today. I've reread it several times and each time I bring more and more out of it. While I'm not an XP zealot or a certified Scrum master of any sort, I have studied the approaches extensively over the last
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If you're willing (and able) to work in Indianapolis, we've got one more spot available. Successful candidates will be passionate about .NET and highly capable C# developers. You'll get the chance to work with WPF, WCF, SQL Server, nHibernate, TFS, and
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