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  • Productivity

    The Changing Resource Roster. Potential Project Killers Part 4

    In this five part series we’ve been examining what I consider to be key project issues that can turn into real project killers if not properly managed or avoided. In the first three parts so far we’ve covered: Part 1 - starting too fast – don’t start before everyone is really ready and the project is well-defined Part 2 – a vague budget – managing a project with no real budget is dangerous – sounds easy but it’s not and it can become very hard, if not impossible, to ever define financial success Part 3 – an indecisive customer – ...
    July 08, 2013 3 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    How To Use User Defined Functions in the Stand-Alone Telerik Report Designer tool

    The stand-alone Telerik Report Designer tool is an amazingly powerful tool. It allows users to define and edit their own custom reports. Sometimes, however, you need to be able to extend the Telerik Report Designer with custom functions. This blog post walks you through creating a class library of custom functions and shows you how to add them to the Telerik Report Designer for your users.
    July 04, 2013 4 min read
  • Productivity

    EQATEC Exception Handling

    Telerik now offers EQATEC Application Analytics, an awesome way to get real-time usage monitoring and app insights for mobile, web, and desktop applications. This leads to better understanding your customers and improving your app based on hard data, all delivered through an online dashboard. Here are a few more highlights: Know your users, their device configuration, and their behavior Exception handling Application health and performance Simple API for quick instrumentation Anonymous data collection I'd like to touch on exception handling specifically. EQATEC does this so well that we decided to drop crash reporting from Test Studio for iOS and ...
    July 04, 2013 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    JustMock Plays Even Nicer with Visual Studio in Q2 2013 SP1

    Even more compatibility fixes between JustMock and other profiled applications released in 2103 Q2 SP1.
    July 02, 2013 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Potential Project Killers Part 3. The Indecisive Customer

    So far in this five part series on potential project killers, we've covered two topics: - Starting too fast – getting the project going before it’s really ready to start and before it had been well defined by the customer and well planned out by the project manager and team. - The vague project budget– moving forward on the project with no definite budget in place or a very vague one. Without the financial target in place at the beginning of the project, the scope may change and the financial affects will be hard to pinpoint or justify, and ...
    June 28, 2013 3 min read