9/21/2010: We posted a video to our site of this. Click here to view. Having just blogged about the failure of tool providers to provide good documentation tools, I thought I’d like to show a few screen shots of what we’re working on. This blog demonstrates an early prototype of the documentation functionality of the [...]
September 20, 2010
How Documentation Tools Have Failed Development Teams
The vast majority of software development teams are dissatisfied with their development process. I believe 50% of the problems are traceable to bad documentation management tools. This blog discusses the state of documentation management tools for software projects, and suggests some concepts for improvement. 95% of software projects manage documentation with Microsoft Word, augmented sometimes [...]
September 18, 2010
Agile Ruined His Life. Is the Sky Falling?
Agile ruined Daniel Markham’s life. Read about it here. Because Daniel Markham is an experienced and perceptive Agile practitioner, it’s tempting to think the sky must be falling, and Agile is going to go the way of so many other trendy methodologies that have promised so much, and delivered so little. Markham’s article is witty [...]
September 8, 2010
Team Foundation Server 2010 API Interface
Update: May 25, 2011. The link now downloads a compileable solution with tests that provide examples of how to make calls to the API. We’re building an application that uses the Team Foundation Server 2010 API. I see a lot of people struggling with how to program against this API. And with good reason. We’ve [...]
September 6, 2010
Using the Exia Process – Project Planning
In this blog we’ll look at how the Exia Process can help with project planning. I’m using the current Beta version of the Exia Process which is available for download from our web site at www.exia.net. By the way, we’re trying to design the Exia Process to be as fast and easy to use as [...]
September 4, 2010
Using the Exia Process – Start
It’s time to start blogging about using the Exia Process. We’re getting closer to shipping the Exia Process Release 1 so, like development shops around the world, we’re coding away furiously. We’re a small company, and I’m the owner, which means I do everything from coding to sweeping the floors. Right now I’m coding up [...]
September 1, 2010
Step by Step VSS to TFS Migration
This post describes a strategy for configuring a virtual machine image to use for conversion of source code from VSS to TFS. It uses a virtual machine image and developers that are ready to do a conversion launch an instance of the virtual machine with the migration prerequisites already installed. By simplifying and streamlining the process to a few steps [...]
September 21, 2010
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