Across 1. These are specific criteria identified by the customer for each functional requirement. 2. Work in Progress. Down 1. A timeboxed task to go research a specific item with the deliverable being the results of the research. 2. Sequence of numbers used in Planning Poker. 3. A relative number describing how much work the team can get done over …
Agile Humor, a true story of agile clashing with teenage chores. I just had a conversation with my teenage son regarding what “doing the dishes” means, which evolved several user stories which included the following using the As a ___ I need ____ so that _____ format for user stories. I realized that we never had a decent list of …
Last year I finally got fed up with the internal tools that I was using to manage Agile backlogs and Agile workflows, and I decided to build my own. I first named it GroupScrum which was later renamed to AgiPlanner, but too many people thought it sounded like an agricultural product. Recently the product has been renamed to Uzility, …
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A kanban board, agile board, or agile kanban board is a tool to display the status of tasks in the workflow process. A cork board or sticky notes can be used as a offline kanban board. The image below shows a simple online kanban board using the Uzility system. A much more complex kanban in Uzility. And here is …
Today Database Health Monitor Beta 8.1 released. After the beta 8 release about three weeks ago there were a couple small issues discovered that have been addressed in Beta 8.1 Beta 8.1 was release to fix some obsolete code from a very old beta that causes the application to expire on Feb 1st, 2014, this limitation has now been removed. …
Today I launched Database Health Reports Beta 8 as a soft launch. What I mean by the soft launch is that other than updating the DatabaseHealth website and this blog posting, I haven’t done much to promote it. Why you might ask? Due to it being a holiday week between Christmas and New Years, there are many people out of …
For the .NET programmer, Visual Basic programmer or PHP programmer, if you are accessing a SQL Server database there are some things you should know to performance tune your queries. Learn how to improve query performance with Indexes, how to properly use parameterized queries, using the query analyzer, and avoiding common SQL Server performance pitfalls. This presentation is a lot …
Monday: Using FILESTREAM and FILETABLES in SQL Server Configuring and Using FILESTREAM and FILETABLES in SQL Server. Developers love to use SQL Server to store files, but this causes headaches for the DBA, finally a reasonable solution for file storage in SQL Server FILETABLES and FILESTREAM. SQL Server 2008 and 2012 add the new features of FILESTREAM and FILETABLES. Learn how …
This week I will be attending and speaking at Vancouver DevTeach. This event taking place on December 2nd to 4th 2013 at the Vancouver Sheraton Wall Center Hotel. Monday and Tuesday I have morning presentations which leaves the rest of the day to attend a few other sessions. Here are the sessions that I will be presenting. Monday: Using FILESTREAM and …
What a great time at Startup Weekend Bellingham this wekend. Now that I have had a chance to catch up on sleep and get back into my normal routine, I figured its a great time to write a summary. How it all worked, the brief summary: Friday night we pitched ideas to the group of about 70 people. The pitches …