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    Beyond Agile Estimation Part II: Improving Your Metrics

    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...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Productivity

    Visual Studio Productivity Tools Q2 2012

    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...
    January 23, 2024 6 min read
  • Productivity

    Beyond Agile Estimation Part I: Measuring Key Data Points

    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...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Latest Release is Live! Test Studio 2012 R1 SP2

    We’re happy to announce the latest release of Test Studio: Service Pack 2 for version 2012 R1. (In case you didn’t know, we have two major “R” releases each year. Each major release has two service packs.) There’s a huge list of bug fixes and feature updates for this latest release. Some of the big highlights include: Recording with 64-bit IE and IE10 on Windows 8 Updated metrics for Load tests Analyzing results from individual agents for load test results Improved data binding for WPF and web tests Encrypt passwords used in tests Continued enhancement of our translators for Telerik’s ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    [Video Case Study] TeamPulse helps Imaginet transform ideas into reality

    Imaginet’s Development Practice Manager, Aaron Kowall explains how TeamPulse helped his team manage their projects and transform ideas into great products. Experience the difference for yourself.  Try TeamPulse Now Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, Agile Practices Evangelist at Telerik @skimedic
    May 27, 2021 1 min read