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SDLC Progress
01 September 08 08:07 PM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)

I've been spending the last month or two getting the SDLC procedures and infrastructure in place for the Silverlight release of our company's Enterprise Physical Asset Management system.  We were already using Team Foundation Source Control but wanted to adopt SCRUM as our development methodology and improve on some of our development practices such as using Continuous Integration , Test Driven Development, better Work Item Management and enhanced quality through Code Reviews, Check...

Filed under: DeveloperTools, Agile, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, TeamSystem

Code Reviews using TFS Tools
25 August 08 07:47 PM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)

I've previously blogged about using code reviews as an effective way to minimize defects, improve code quality and keep code more maintainable.  In my new job I had to define a code review process that suited our development team as well as the Team Foundation Server toolset and the Conchango SCRUM for Team System process template we are using.  This post details what process and tooling we came up with. Review Style To improve on the cost-benefit factor of the reviews we opted for...

Filed under: Agile, Teamwork, Coding, TeamSystem

No news good news?
08 July 08 03:13 PM | cjlotz | with no comments

As the blog post says, I haven't been too active on the blogging front for the past 2-3 months.  This has been mostly due to the career move I made to Pragma Products beginning of June.  Having been at the company now for just more than a month I am very happy with the move.  The company, people and the opportunities going forward are great.  Moving from a big corporate environment into a smaller company has been a very positive move for me.  It is great to be able to...

Filed under: Misc, TeamSystem

Izindaba #21
07 December 07 05:35 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP - News from the BCL Team on the CTP and newly created Parallel Computing Developer Center . ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing and ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views - Scott Guthrie continues with his series on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. CTP coming soon! ASP...

Filed under: SDLC, DeveloperTools, Learning, C#, Silverlight, Orm, VisualStudio, ASPNet, CLR, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, Javascript, ADONet, Misc, Mono, Design, TeamSystem, F#