Around this time of the year you and your colleagues probably decide to bring the holidays spirit to the office by playing that popular game – you randomly assign a person to whom you anonymously give a gift. Do you remember the last time you played that game, got that ...

The last release for 2012 is here just in time for the holidays. It brings new features to our Customer Feedback Portal. Private Feedback With this release you can allow each user to submit feedback that is visible only to the author and your team. This feature is especially ...

The Visual Studio community has awarded TeamPulse with a Silver in the Collaboration, Project Management and Agile Solutions category. Telerik collected thirteen awards in the 2012 Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards and one of them was for us, the TeamPulse team, for our agile project management and collaboration tool. ...

In this episode, our host Phil Japikse speaks with Steve Bohlen, a former building architect and current software architect on the differences between the two engineering disciplines. Join us as we discuss where the terminology originated in the software industry and how the same terms can mean very different things....

We have just released our R5 2012 bits and let us tell you, TeamPulse has never been that Agile. R5 marks the release of the much requested Kanban boards, as well as some other great features like TFS 2012, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support. Let’s take a closer ...

In the 11 years since the Agile Manifesto was created, the adoption of agile concepts has continued to grow. The number of agile user groups, conferences, and books is a strong indication that more and more people are at least exploring the idea, if not working to improve their adoption and execution. This ...

In this episode, I sit down with Microsoft MVP Lee Brandt to discuss the difficulties in communication and collaboration amongst project teams as well as with people outside of the project team. Lee offers some great ideas on why the problems arise and how to improve the communications gap. This episode was ...

Our team of Agile consultants has always been excited to explore agile from different perspectives. This time we decided to look into the 30 most popular agile myths and demystify them. In the 11 years since the Agile Manifesto was created, the adoption of agile concepts has continued to grow. ...

Have you ever played the “Telephone Game”? The way it works is simple. Line everyone up, and say a phrase to the first person. That person (and each person in turn) repeats that phrase from memory to the next person in line. When the last person gets the phrase, he/she ...

In this episode we continue the discussion with Ted, Jessica, and Glenn while at the CodeMash conference in Sandusky, Ohio, and it’s all about transitioning to agile. How do you get organizational buy in? What are the agile anti-patterns that make agile projects fail? How does an individual get started ...