Johan; thinking out loud.

I have been forced to learn what Scrum is due to two independent assignments.

So in the spirit of learning stuff by myself I just read Agile Software Development with Scrum and I’ve got Agile Project Management with Scrum in the pipe.

It struck me that Scrum is a little like it has turned out when I, and the good developers around me, have had some saying in the organization of software development.

I’m by far an expert in the field but I get the feeling that it will be hard to convince a customer to embrace Scrum. I would gladly work in a Scrum team though.

My Scrum encounters this far is by one customer that want to use Scrum in a project to migrate a rather large application from VB6 to .NET, and one customer where I helped them inspect and evaluate a software supplier (and their software) that uses Scrum for their application development.

Done in the right way I really think it enables both transparency and creative thinking.

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I think that I’m not sold to anyone next week, so I will probably spend the week reading Developer’s guide to Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0
My intent is to get through it all, including some coding to get to know the product.

I think WSS is a good base to start with when the client wants a web based internal solution. I’ve read somewhere that it works better for extranets now, so it might be a good starting point for those solutions also.

I did a solution at one client that I based on the Portal Starter Kit from ASP.NET a couple of years ago. I integrated it with Reporting Services and Active Directory. It has been running without a glitch for more than a year now. The .NET 1.1 runtime doesn’t get along with ASP.NET 2.0 on their 64-bit server though, so they want to migrate it to .NET 2.0, but I think it will be better for them to remake my portal modules into web parts and run WSS instead of a hacked and migrated starter sit portal. I will also gain more from learning WSS than pushing the client forward with an, essentially, unsupported application. It should be a lot easier to find someone that can do things in WSS.

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I’m just about done reading Professional Team Foundation Serverand at the end I found this little gem:

This tip needs the Team Foundation Power Tool (tfpt.exe) to work.

When you are working offline you just clear the read-only attribute on the files you want to edit. Later, when you are online, you open the command line, navigate to your workspace and run:

tfpt.exe online

Now the power tool will find all those writable files and create a change set from them.

Remember that you can not rename files while offline, but it is ok to add or remove files.

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