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Not long ago, while preparing my [Kanban Fundamentals video

In the last few years, a number of Microsoft dev teams have started using online tools to manage how the community can offer feedback.

A fairly common use case in web applications is the need to send an

I’ve been reading a bunch of kanban and lean books recently as I work on my Pluralsight course on Introducing Kanban. The most recent one I’ve finished is _ Scrumban, Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean …

I wrote a few weeks ago about my new Asus Zen Ultrabook computer. I’ve been using it as my primary laptop computer since then, and thought I’d write up a follow-up on how it’s been. Overall, I’m …

One of the topics I'm touching on in my Kanban Fundamentals Pluralsight course is Cumulative Flow Diagrams, and how these can be used to analyze flow of a process. Some electronic kanban tools like AgileZen have some …

In working on a client's reporting system, I ran across some

We’ve been fans of team rooms and collaborative work environments at NimblePros for some time. In building out our new building, we took care to create several large open spaces to be used as team rooms, with …

One of my applications relies on a singleton pattern to create a single instance of a server which processes requests from many different ASP.NET handlers. It is created using pretty much standard Singleton code:

I just finished my DevReach Online presentation, A Whirlwind Tour of Software Development Fundamentals. In this 45-minute talk, I covered what I consider to be fundamental principles, patterns, and practices of software …