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While catching up on long overdue flagged posts to read - I spotted a familiar meme on becoming a better developer – I wrote about Continuous Education almost 2 years and it’s nice to see that this topic keeps reappearing. I’ve updated my bubble graph of the technologies to include those that I’ve used over the last 12 months and have also added ...

  Doing Agile across distributed locations around the globe makes it harder, but not impossible. It puts strain on the Agile principles, we have to work hard to make sure that the focus remains on delivering value to the customer.  It is very easy for the complexity of the situation to stop us dead in our tracks. There are a number of ...

I have recently observed Sprint Planning meetings where tasks are either being selected or assigned to individuals within the team at the start of the Sprint.  Apparently this is not an isolated event, but aren’t Scrum teams supposed to be self managing, aren’t team members supposed to pick up whatever task will most help the team ...

It has been a busy time here at Conchango as we've been making plenty of changes to get Scrum for Team System working on Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and also incorporating changes driven by community feedback and usage of the plugin on our own development projects. We should be ready to release after we ...

As promised, but somewhat later than I was expecting to write this blog, I intend to answer some issues that Kevin Brady raised in his article Agile/Scrum does not get to grips with human psychology, namely:People will always put their own interests ahead of the interests of the group. People are self-interested Karl Popper’s ...

Recently I was sent an email asking me for some advice on using TFS with the scrum for team systems plug-in for managing testing tasks and defect tracking on an agile project. I thought the answers might be useful to others, so I have posted them here:Basically I want to use VSTS / TFS (with the Conchango template) to manage functional testing as ...

Now you don't have to... Position.Net ConsultantTechnology TeamIyas AlQasem, Director of TechnologyEgham, London, Client SiteDepartmentReporting toLocationConchango is the leading UK provider of technology solutions for business opportunities. We are a Microsoft Gold partner in 7 competencies, and are the only UK independent consultancy to ...

  PositionAgile CoachTechnology TeamIyas AlQasem, Director of TechnologyEgham or LondonDepartmentReporting toLocationConchango is one of the UK’s leading business and technology solution providers and a member of the Agile Alliance.  We pride ourself on the passion of our employees, the quality of our project work, ...

General Eisenhower said that "The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important." How I understand this quote is that the General knew that even with all the planning he participated in, some people would end up on the wrong beaches, there would be a loss of some critical supplies, and many soldiers would face ...

I recently read the following article by Kevin Brady on Agile/Scrum does not get to grips with human psychology.  The core theme of this article was that Agile forgets the human factor, specifically People will always put their own interests ahead of the interests of the group. People are self-interested Commercial production decisions are ...