I’ve just come back from Build 2012 where we have seen the fruits of Microsoft’s work over the last few years being Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and of course most importantly the Surface. I was lucky enough to be in the front row so I got to see things up close. We now have […]
Last weekend, we decided to take the plunge and upgrade our SSW TFS 2012 RC instance to the shiny new TFS 2012 RTM. It was early I know, we considered the risks vs the rewards, made a roll-back plan with HyperV and quickly decided it was worth the effort. We ploughed ahead with the upgrade […]
Updated August 12, 2015: I bought a Tesla. It has the most enormous touchscreen – no irritating nobs to turn 🙂 G’day Developers! For the last month I was driving through Germany, Italy, Austria and Croatia. I hired 3 different cars. Having mainly driven Toyotas, I was keen on experiencing some variety. The 1st one was […]
Over the weekend, we decided to take the plunge and upgrade the SSW TFS 2010 instance to the shiny new TFS 2012 release candidate. Initially, there was some debate as to whether we should upgrade what is the busiest server in our environment. One call to Grant Holliday made all the difference and we quickly reached a […]
1st February 1917 – 4th January 2012 94.9 years Figure: Jack Cogan’s British Passport Yesterday, 2 significant events occurred: · my eldest girl Eve, had her 10th birthday · my dad died at 94 The one thing I am most thankful for is that my dad still stayed himself, right to the end. He still […]
Juval Löwy came to visit us at SSW last week to present an Architects Masterclass. He covered the Service-Oriented Development process and WCF and treated the attendees to some enthusiastic opinions on software development architecture. Cheers, @AdamCogan
I’m in India at the moment with Damian Brady and Adam Stephensen running a Professional Scrum Developer course. The training is with a group of 24 guys with varying roles – developers, testers, architects, and managers. At the end of the course, they will all have the opportunity to sit an online exam to become […]
Note: Originally on https://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/AgileTemplate/Reports/ With SSW Agile Template generating reports has never been easier. Listed below are the default Reports for Agile Template:
Note: This content is from old “RulesToBetterProjectManagementWithTFS.aspx”. The current rules to follow are SSW Rules to Better Scrum At SSW we advocate using the rich features of email and a release plan approachto getting work done. Follow these steps and you will have happier clients and clientsthat know what is going on. Do you know […]
Please come along and enjoy a day with Eve to celebrate her Christening. When: Saturday January 4 2003; 11am Where: Greek Church in Leichardt And afterwords at our place till 5pm. A few pictures from her first year