This past weekend I had the pleasure to speak at the first South Florida IT Camp. It was a great event and I had a blast presenting on Project Management. I t was my first professional talk. The premise of the session was to introduce the concepts of the traditional project management methodology and to(…)
Chris Sells, mensa member, Windows coding hero and all around guru has posted some great tips for project managers (program managers for those in Microsoft). I wish all project managers would follow his advice. PM Skill #0: Know Your JobPM Skill #1: Communicate, Communicate, CommunicatePM Skill #2: Building ConsensusPM Skill #3: Getting Things DonePM Skill(…)
Scoble reports that there are a whole bunch of videos on Visual Studio Team System at TeamStystemRocks.com. See everyone, Scoble can be right about some things. Keep doing what you do Rob. Now Playing: Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
I’ve got to check the Channel 9 Video feed more often. Channel 9 posted a ten minute chat with MS head honcho Steve Ballmer. It’s an interesting video. The one thing that I found surprising was Ballmer’s energy. I always thought that his energy level was more of a sales pitch thing than anything else.(…)
This talk focused all on demos. Team System will incorporate a code coverage tool. In the code coverage tool you can drill down to the module level. It also shows which lines of code in the application have or have not been tested. It shows this information by highlighting the lines of code in different(…)
I didn’t have any notes on this one…so shoot me. Essentially, three members of the Visual Studio Team System team talked about Team System and its features. One feature of note was shelving. Shelving occurs when a developer wants to place an unfinished piece(s) of code into source control. Since the code is unfinished it(…)
I saw this and I did a double take. It looks like that there is a team of developers that will be unifying the N-tools (NUnit, NAnt, etc) under one project called NTeam. It sounds like a good idea after the blogsphere blew up (see Rick LaPlante, Eric Sink, and Eric Bowen) one the Visual Studio Team(…)