Microsoft Regional Director | Scrum Master | Speaker
Adam Cogan Angular, FireBootCamp, General, Logo, SSW Projects, Xamarin 0 Comments
What a corker this year has been. We’ve had a lot of excitement within SSW. We’ve made a lot of changes, and run a lot of new events, and these things couldn’t have happened without the wonderful people who work with me. I’d like to give you a summary of a few of the cool
Adam Cogan FireBootCamp, SSW Projects 0 Comments
I’m having a ball this month – I’ve been to Melbourne to give 3 presentations at TechEd and I get to do the same again at TechEd Sydney in a couple of weeks. I’m also enjoying the hubbub and excitement of getting ready to release SugarLearning, which was made by the students of the first
Adam Cogan FireBootCamp, SSW Projects, Training 0 Comments
It has been an amazing, intense 9 weeks, and while I’m sad that it is over, I couldn’t be more proud of the guys and what they’ve achieved. They’ve all improved in different ways: Some of them arrived with a lot of experience… now they are awesome. Some were juniors straight out of uni… they’re
Adam Cogan Scrum, SSW Projects 0 Comments
Figure: BCE SPARROW uses a ‘metro’ design with all the latest Nuget packages for elegant, consistent and usable design The benefits of continually improving our processes and practices around the Scrum methodology were never more apparent than with the project we have recently completed for Brisbane
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 Scrum, SSW Projects, TFS 1 Comment
Update: Lei Xu has also posted this in Chinese. Let’s continue the story of a hair raising project. Nothing is small in China! Read Part I here. We’ve looked at the people factors, and now let’s look at the technical part. Lesson 3: Tune your SQL indexes – back to basics TIP: Read SSW Rules
Adam Cogan Scrum, SSW Projects, TFS 0 Comments
Update: Lei Xu has also posted this in Chinese. Recently Lei Xu and I completed a hair-raising TFS 2012 project. We hit some snags trying to optimize Work Items with 20,000,000 records. Let me tell you the story… It was completed shortly after arriving home from the MVP Summit in Redmond. It was luc
Adam Cogan Scrum, SSW Projects, User Experience event cinemas 1 Comment
A big thank you to Robin Maes, Andrew Turner and the whole Event Cinemas team who worked tirelessly with the SSW’s guys to deliver a great looking, super fast, site that was on time and to the fixed budget. Thanks to the Telerik Sitefinity team, our favourite Bulgarians, for giving us the updates wi