This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first four parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Part IV: Key Players In Part III (Backlog Management), we talked…
Much like we write tests to assert that the code is really working the way it should, Nathaniel Talbott thinks we should be able to write experiments to provide us with facts that assert the usage of a feature of software is really valid. This is a novel concept, and he discusses it briefly in…
Part of my ongoing preparation for a presentation on EPM Deployment best practices…. A colleague of mine remarked a couple of months ago that the number one indicator of success in a MOPS deployment is identifying the owner of the Server implementation going forward. More often then not, the owner is a PM or PMO…
(Working on my presentation on EPM Deployment Best Practices, and decided to work out a couple of ideas via blog posting.) As I think nobody would argue, a significant part of the EPM deployment story is of course in the training deployment – yet, often the training component is either an afterthought, not paid attention…
Great post from Doug Ware rolling up some of the top SharePoint BI features – with links…I know we’ve talked about how some of them enable us to surface Project Server data, but this list has a couple more items on my hit list. The Top SharePoint Server 2010 Feature Set You Probably Don’t…
Microsoft announced in this press release yesterday that Dynamic Memory will be added to Hyper-V in the Service Pack 1 release for 2008 R2. While there is not a specific ship date for SP1, I would guess based on past release cycles that it could be late Q3 or early Q4 2010. So what is…
While I was at a customer conducting a Windows 7 Assessment, I installed the latest version of the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT 5.5). This isn’t beta, this is a production version of the toolkit. What I noticed was the left pain in the Application Compatibility Manager showed “Windows 7 RC”, I thought that was…
"All vague notions must fall before a pupil can call himself a master." – Bruce Lee This has been one of my favorite quotes for a long time – not that I’m a master at anything, but it’s a constant reminder to seek out and eliminate any vague notions. As technology…
From Rafael’s blog: The Houston SharePoint User Group (HSPUG) is proud to present the first SharePoint Saturday event for the greater Houston area on May 1, 2010. This event will be from 8:00 am – 6:00 pm at Norris Conference Center, 803 Town & Country Lane, Houston, TX 77024. 713-590-0950. We will provide a continental…
It’s no secret that I am thrilled with the new social features of SharePoint 2010. I am most excited about the new Profile Picture handling. I strongly believe that the more we can show the faces of our colleagues to one another the more connected we will feel. Clearly Microsoft feels that way as witnessed…
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