Yesterday I blogged about using a spreadsheet in your Agile Estimation efforts. We left off after the first sprint and had an estimated time to completion of 15.14 weeks. Now let’s take a look at how this works after another sprint. The spreadsheet is the same, however, now we have data for sprint 2. Cell C2 represents the backlog size in story points after sprint 1. In this case if you remember from the blog post yesterday, our backlog is 106 story points. The team is going to commit to 8 story points worth of work (cell C3) and completes 8 (cell C4, told you the team gets better. ) This...

We showed off tons of new features during our Q2 2012 release webinar, Easier with Visual Studio Productivity Tools Q2 2012, and we gave you the opportunity to directly ask us questions. Here are the topics on attendees’ minds, and our responses. General Are all of the Just products working in VS 2012? Yes, they all work with VS 2012 RC. Can you give these presentations at user groups? We sure can, please send us your individual requests. We will also provide training material if you’re interested in giving the presentation yourself. JustCode What are the advantages of JustCode over similar products? There are other tools on the...

And the Telerik Windows Phone Showcase Gallery proves it right. We’ve just added 15 new customers’ apps using Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone. You are into swimming? FusionWare Swim Tracker will precisely monitor your progress. If you are feeling like partying with friends, Drinks is the correct choice for you. Providing a growing list of alcoholic drink recipes, it will turn you into a fun guru. Moreover, you can also create your own drinks and submit them to the database. The lie indicator, Pinocchio Lies or the excellent stock market monitor, Markets & Me are just a tiny bit of all the new apps featured on our...

During the recent conference season, I did a lot of presentations about Agile Estimation based on my Pluralsight course of the same name. At the end of the sessions I showed an Excel spreadsheet that shows how to take the concept of Agile Estimation one step further by measuring what actually happened and using that as part of your estimation.  I am assuming that you know something about Agile Estimation, however, at BarCamp Hong Kong, I got a request to further explain this spreadsheet in a blog post. As promised, here it is.   Let’s take a look at the spreadsheet after your first iteration (Sprint 1). Let’s assume...

I guess you are following us closely, so you are aware of the great RadChartView control introduced in Q2 2012 which aims to replace the old RadChart implementation. Today, I would like to introduce two cool RadChartView features and demonstrate how you can engage them. Namely, these features are Trackball and Selection. Trackball So, what is Trackball? Trackball displays a vertical line across the chart plot area and also displays little visual indicators (circles by default) at points where the trackball line crosses the visualization of a series object. For example when the trackball line crosses a line series line segment, a...