Microsoft Regional Director | Scrum Master | Speaker
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This year has been a great year for the cloud, for Microsoft, and for SSW customers. We’ve delivered many solutions built on top of Azure, CRM Online, SharePoint Online, and TFS Online – all running on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. These solutions work across devices. They are easy to manage – y
Adam Cogan General, SSW Projects, User Experience Navigation, SSWTV, User Interface 0 Comments
Guys, I’m happy to tell you that we have completely redesigned SSW TV and I’d love if you could spare a few moments to take a look! http://tv.ssw.com/ Here are the top 3 changes I think you will like: Quizzes: We wanted to provide more value to the viewer and give them an opportunity to
Adam Cogan General, Scrum 3 Comments
How do we make good Product Owners At my Teched talks this month (Australia and New Zealand) I talked about Product Owners. After my session there were lots of discussion around the Product Owner Scrum role, and what makes a good one. I loved hearing the stories of dysfunction about Product Owners w
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Diagnosing issues with your web app can be one of the most difficult things for developers. Sometimes, the browser just doesn’t show you what you expect. Visual Studio is the best possible IDE to help developers see what’s going on with their code during development, but what about what’s happening
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Brian Harry recently blogged about some great new features coming in Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 and I want to address the three aspects that affect our customers the most: TFS support for Epics, the new Team Explorer window in Visual Studio, and Cloud Load Testing. 1) TFS Sup
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Watch this SSW TV special video on “Estimating Business Value to order your backlog” and see a real-life video of a brand new Scrum team learn how to use the “Business Value” field. Yesterday I told you about the lightening fast, dead sexy movie site, ‘Event Cinemas’ that went live. Today I have a r
Adam Cogan General 2012 retrospective 0 Comments
Continuing on from December’s “My 2012 as Microsoft Regional Director” post, I thought I might reflect on how 2012 went at SSW. It really was another great year for SSW with the launch of our new Metro website as well as our new SSW TV site. In 2012, SSW TV went from zero to 30,000
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Video: Celebrating our first 20 years – Sydney .NET User Group I am proud to be able to say that I have been running the Sydney .NET User Group for over 20 years now. During that time we’ve had some great and memorable speakers sharing information about a range of .NET topics. We’ve kept evolving
I’d like to let you know what I’ve been up to this year (next month, I’ll let you know what SSW has achieved). Since my main job is helping companies adopt and deploy Microsoft technologies, my roles at Microsoft are very useful for my customers and staff. As a Microsoft Regional Director and ALM MV
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I’ve just come back from Build 2012 where we have seen the fruits of Microsoft’s work over the last few years being Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and of course most importantly the Surface. I was lucky enough to be in the front row so I got to see things up close. We now have