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
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A while back, I wrote a blog post detailing how Kendo UI is used in TeamPulse xView™ UI. If you'd like the kick the tires yourself, check out our online demo: It's awesome. It's hotter than two bears fighting in a forest fire. What you may not know...
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Windows 8 brings up new opportunities for businesses and opens up new horizons for developers. Targeting enterprise and consumer apps, driving convergence between the tablet and PC market, Windows 8 is an opportunity to greatly extend the reach of your apps. Whether you are planning to build line of business apps or apps for the Windows store you surely need tools to make you more productive and to help you achieve more with less. Join RadControls for Metro online launch to get to know the first 3rd party UI suite for building Windows 8 apps. What’s more, you’ll get a chance to...