One of the sessions on Microsoft TechEd 2012 Russia was dedicated to KPIs in IT. It has interested me rather greatly, as in my role as Team Lead I have to deal with them at least weekly. So I’ve decided to dwell on this topic and in the first post…
Last week I’ve visited Microsoft TechEd 2012 in Russia, Moscow. In this post I would like to share some emotions and impressions from the conference. Everything for me began on Friday’s evening November 23rd, when I received the invitation to the conference as a presenter of a mini session about…
In this post I will continue to speak about project management and how TFS helps me handling it. I’ve started from Project Kick-off meeting, then we have created branches for project’s code and reserved iterations for development and testing. Now we are ready for Detailed Planning phase. Still we are…
In this post I will continue speaking about projects, but now I will come back to TFS. Today’s story is about Merge & Branch structure and strategy for projects and significant changes. In one scheme it can be presented the following: So we have four branch directions: Main branch –…
From this post I would like to dwell on IT projects: how we manage projects, how TFS helps us handling them, what reports we are using. The first post will be dedicated to the Project Kick off meeting, as it is the first public project event. Kick off meeting –…
In this post I would like to speak about support reports. We have systems that are in production for quite a long period of time. And business wants some additional changes and new functionality to be implemented to the current systems. We unite such tasks into several categories and allocate…
This post will end the first look on every day\every week planning with two reports: Hours Planned for Developers and Triage. The report Hours Planned for Developers gives simple picture what workload developers have on each week: Whether there are hours that stay in the past. Whether developer does not…
I would like to speak about Aging Report this post. This report helps us to look on the age of Work Items. I want this report to show me not only some totals, but also allow me to drill through to each single work item that is out of date….
Today I would like to focus on the main tool that my team is using for every day control of planning process. I called it Task Capacity report. If you are familiar with Microsoft Project and Gantе chart you will find much common between this tools and Task Capacity report,…
Let’s go to the next activity: I called it every day\every week planning. These periods cannot be separated as they’re going hand by hand through the planning process. We create plans for a week and control it on every day basis. Some key moments of this type of planning are:…