Marcus private Christmas greeting Role models - Christian the developer Role models - Staffan the consultant How do you get so much done? TDD for 9 year olds - an experiment in teaching my sons class When we used user story mapping to plan our move Some thoughts after running the marshmallow challenge with kids 3 success factors for a big room planning Here people are saying kind things about each others A decade of blogging... The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated! What is important, really? My day off Me and my kidneys The 1000th post Make a command to count my files What the traffic in Jakarta taught me about slack Things I say often: I run on feedback Best advice for me this year Our Christmas Scare The "Don''t fear audits and the news"-business methodology - with certification The humble blogger approach - some practical tips Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean? 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My second book is out ... kinda Ugly clothing, symbols and values How to make a empty diagram in Excel If you build it - things will improve; turning visualizations to knowledge Ask a simpler question - real data speaks louder KoaJs Making the make file test, push and all that Screencast - What is yield and generators?' Screencast - Installing Koa Js - a tutorial through failures Repost - Beyond Callbacks or How Koa helps me Code Better MongoDb and the "10309 Unable to create/open lock file" on Ubuntu Marcus Node Bits - Basic Authentication with Koa Marcus Node Bits - Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)' Marcus Node Bits - Let us flex Koa Js, shall we? Marcus Node Bits - Let us talk about yield and generators, shall we? Marcus Node Bits - Let us talk about Koa for a while, shall we? Setting up a complete Node development machine. From scratch. For free Javascript callbacks - cannot live with them cannot live without them... or can you? Marcus Node Bits - Ok then, Moogose is pretty sweet Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals Marcus Node Bits - supertest is a nice way to test an api' Marcus Node Bits - Express is best without generators Marcus Node Bits - monk is an easy way to access MongoDb Marcus Node Bits - Should is a nice way to do asserts Marcus Node Bits - mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Marcus Node Bits - Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them Marcus Node Bits - Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Marcus Node Bits - Package.json is a mighty tool Marcus Node Bits - npm is not only for getting packages Marcus Node Bits - Writing stuff down is great to remember it Repost - Do we dare to be data-driven Share your internet connection via WiFi on Windows 8.1 Nancy Fx - now you can read her too! 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Simple.Data–the testing story Twitter for beginners The dynamic keyword, ExpandoObject–a short intro for me Creating a local NuGet repository with dependencies bundles My mouse pointer disappeared in Visual Studio when using a dark theme KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration Specification by example with SpecLog–some initial thoughts Using Unity as dependency resolver in ASP.NET MVC 3 How to apply a pull request on GitHub with TortoiseGit Developing in .Net–a new era has begun Know where you step–generate a step definition report with SpecFlow SpecFlow.exe and MsTest Should & Substitute–two new great friends Supported Step Exporter – watch your language Virtual PC performance tip Multi-core support Using BDD with SpecFlow, WPF and White Resovling policy enabled objects with Unity 2.0 Calling SOAPUi Testscript from MSBuild Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi Nice, easy and working description on how to compact a Virtual PC Image SOAPUi and testing WCF Services – how I made it work Great Git-reference for non-commandliners SOAPUi and others – regression testing services Resolving with Unity and Policy Injection using extension methods System.BadImageFormatException Could not load file or assembly System.Data.SQLite PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 Synchronization for consultants – it works! 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Marcus trying JQuery ÖreDev day 5 – keynote and morning' Private source control repository with integration in Visual Studio for free How to press F9-F12 in a Parallels Desktop Windows Image AspxPivotGrid – a mighty web control DropBox – your drive in the cloud Import Outlook contacts to Mac Address Book – for free Getting to the root of all things bad Add coolness to your presentations Synchronization for consultants – how I got it to work Powerpoint online – 280 slides Pastie – your online clipboard Dos-script to delete all Visual Studio Intermediate files Test NHibnernate mappings with Fluent NHibnernate Object-oriented database – worth a try Pomodoro – being agile and focused on the individual level Booting from a VHD in Windows 7 Windows Azure Convert any file-format into PDF MOQ and the Test Run deployment issue The location of the file or directory problem Simple but useful generic repository pattern RefCardz - great first stop Oracle, ODP.NET, RefCursors, Enterprise Library and Readers Associative arrays - and how to use them... wisely ODP.NET - ArrayBindSize and Size for PLSQLAssociativeArrays Aspects and policy injection - clean up your code Automation of integration tests Oracle, ODP.NET, TFS Build and running tests under service account You have to manually tell RockBox to charge via USB How to pass and receive associative arrays with ODP.NET Run Explorer as another account Enterprise Library, OracleTypes and their mapping Connectionstring.com - great resource Who called me? ScrumIndexCardCreator - my first CodePlex project I like PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 Run as for MSI-files Getting dates automatic in Notepad Marcus likes... Clipboard.NET ReSharper and the messed up Intellisense Process Explorer - a good tool WebCam Server WebService studio - Tools for testing webservices All 2 Mp3 Planning poker online Great tool(s) for VB.Net - Find dead code TFS Build watcher - finally Sandcastle - revisted NDoc is dead - long live Sandcastle? TeamBuild 2008 New (better?) refactoring support for VB.NET Facebook - explosion GUICE - a google framework Refactoring Find missing VB.NET documentation Count your lines! Count them one by one TDD - how is it done? Spring.NET Design patterns Finally - Gaming for non-math-freaks! Clean Query analyser stuff with Notepad Excel - my favorite code generator I like NUnit testing asynchronous events Get more use from NCover .NET Deploying. NET 6 WebAPI using ARM Template Testing WebAPI with AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing and xUnit Collections Writing a Selenium test using .NET core and Visual Studio Code Nancy Fx - now you can read her too! ' A session on Open source software at Microsoft Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time using Chocolately Are you coding for change or stability - the followup post Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow Get MongoDB running on AppHarbour - it's an AppSetting thing AppHarbor, Nancy and the Could not load file or assembly 'Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProviders' error Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory Nancy.Testing - no hat, no shoes with Simple.Data Nancy.Testing - testing (razor) views Nancy.Testing - test-dialogues with Requests and Response Nancy.Testing - configure her boot...strapper Nancy.Testing - a closer look through her testability TDD for kids Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow Great Visual Studio integration - another of the many reasons to upgrade to SpecFlow 1.9 System.InvalidOperationException No automation provider available MsTest and FluentAutomation Find the control–a way to stabilize UI automation… a bit SpecFlow, page objects and FluentAutomation Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part II Log4Net, RollingFile named by Date and the staticLogFileName setting Creating a tools only NuGet package OreDev 2011 - day 3 OreDev 2011 - day 2 OreDev 2011 - day 1 SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–how to use it SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–what is it? Simple.Data–the testing story Executable specification - the whole stack or not The dynamic keyword, ExpandoObject–a short intro for me Creating a local NuGet repository with dependencies bundles BDD on .NET Framework and where I learned about it Clean up your steps–use page objects in SpecFlow step definitions Two types in SpecFlow; ScenarioContext and FeatureContext KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration SpecFlow presentation at Sweden Progressive .NET Error “The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string” with SQL Compact Edition In SpecFlow the test runner is just glue Customize your SpecFlow templates and more Kanbanboards IV–shaping stuff up Using Unity as dependency resolver in ASP.NET MVC 3 How to apply a pull request on GitHub with TortoiseGit TDD and Scaffolding KanbanBoards part II–two step forward and one back Developing in .Net–a new era has begun Managing BDD features in our project (using TFS) Know where you step–generate a step definition report with SpecFlow App.config for SpecFlow using MsTest Group coding–a knowledge sharing tool Should & Substitute–two new great friends No more bugs – a thought experiment Different appSetttings for each developer in the team - part II How to use different app.config for each developer A story on doing outside-in development with SpecFlow WhiteStepHelper – a small step toward smaller steps Using BDD with SpecFlow, WPF and White Resovling policy enabled objects with Unity 2.0 Using ATDD in conversion project WCF, MVVM and good client design Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi Testing with Unity, Policy injection and solving “Ambiguous match found. (Strategy type Instance Interception Strategy” problem SOAPUi and MSBuild SOAPUi and testing WCF Services – how I made it work Vb.net considered harmful Great Git-reference for non-commandliners Resolving with Unity and Policy Injection using extension methods ‘urn:nhibernate-mapping-2.2' has invalid child element 'property' and Fluent NHibnerate System.BadImageFormatException Could not load file or assembly System.Data.SQLite PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 AutoMapper – get rid of your tedious mapping code SpecFlow BDD .NET-style Visual Studio 2010 web.config transformation NUnit and the constraint based model Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference TDD and legacy code Trying Coding Dojo, Kata and Extreme OOP Great tool for creating snippets Deploying ASP.NET MVC on IIS6 Skillsmatter – so much to watch, so little time Learning JQuery with Firebug Scott Guthrie in Stockholm Online diff tool Moving items between listboxes with JQuery Testing ASP.NET MVC application with Session state ÖreDev day 5 – afternoon ÖreDev day 5 – keynote and morning' ÖreDev day 4 – afternoon ÖreDev day 4 – Why your agile adoption fails with Dan North ÖreDev day 4 – morning ÖreDev day 3 – afternoon ÖreDev day 2 – NHibernate in practice' Private source control repository with integration in Visual Studio for free DDD and Naked Objects AspxPivotGrid – a mighty web control Short and sweet introduction to Dependency Injection Fluent NHibnerate CheckReference throws Expected ‘X’ but got ‘XProxy’ Get rid of your xml – go Fluent NHibernate First stop for learning events, delegates and anonymous methods Object-oriented database – worth a try I am back working Parental leave reading Windows Azure MOQ and the Test Run deployment issue The location of the file or directory problem What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization Clean code - the pragmatic approach NMock2 RemotingException ByRef value type parameter cannot be null How to read other exe's config Custom tool warning cannot import wsdl:portType Compress a string with zip AddressFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher Oracle, ODP.NET, RefCursors, Enterprise Library and Readers Associative arrays - and how to use them... wisely ODP.NET - ArrayBindSize and Size for PLSQLAssociativeArrays Oracle, ODP.NET, TFS Build and running tests under service account WCF Self-hosting and configuration PostSharp - a new aspect on coding How to pass and receive associative arrays with ODP.NET Enterprise Library, OracleTypes and their mapping WCF Data Contract Versioning Oracle and .NET - start here OOP hardcore principles Managing dynamic controls in an ASP.NET page WCF - wsdl configurations explained WCF, WSDL and tempuri.org Transactions in stored procedures with transaction scope Error message "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Enterprise.ASPNetHelper" when deploying Design patterns WebService studio - Tools for testing webservices TypeMock - an introduction ASP.NET MVC - start Oh my god - new stuff rolling in LINQ is a wonderful thing Creating a dynamical AutoComplete textbox How do i - great instruction resource What every .NET-programmer should know Unable to emit assembly Referenced assembly does not have a strong name Good introduction to instrumentation Bullet Hell Tactics - .NET Awards Visual Studio 2008 videos Visual Studio 2008 Refactoring Sandcastle or Marcus betting on the wrong horse? Get current user name and with VB.NET Nerding away... System.Transaction and maxTimeout VB.NET - not that bad TDD - how is it done? Vol 2 TDD - how is it done? Dependency Injection - explained Spring.NET VB.NET or C# DLINQ - Hibernate with Microsoft flavor Chasing bugs Design patterns MSBuild bug (kinda...) Finally - Gaming for non-math-freaks! Bug in Visual Studio 2005 Edit web.config in nice GUI Good information concering double hop Free courses from Microsoft More about generic webservces Generic webservice creator using generics and delegates Well structured projects in Visual Studio 2005 Use command line option '/keyfile' or appropriate project settings instead of 'AssemblyKeyFile' Performance in ASP.NET apps myCssProp is not a known CSS property name NUnit testing asynchronous events Get more use from NCover Euphonium First stop for euphonist on the web Presentations Great new euphonium work Back from the road New Besson Euphonium Life of a consultant Using Google Drive & Slide API as report template engine Using ChatGPT professionally for the first time 'Inf' Finding a bug - how an old guy thinks They don't know what they are doing My Screensavers - Turn up the good My Screensavers - Do something small useful now My screensavers: What would Jesus do My screensavers: Simple Good - Complex Bad My screensavers: Kindness is better Learning about Python list comprehensions A data-driven prognosis report Writing a Selenium test using .NET core and Visual Studio Code When I learned a safety lesson - and did a little bit better Some questions about estimation and plannning Role Models - Lars Littorin - the senior consultant Role models - Christian the developer Role models - Staffan the consultant Bash scripting to check the status of 100 repositories How do I kanbanize my 300 items backlog - a response getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory How do you get so much done? Scraping with Google Sheets for fun and profit Summarizing data over several Google Sheets - an exercise in stats and formulas Metrics on 'well-defined' projects - and what I learned about uncertainty Why the retrospective prime directive is paramount Talking about what really matters to us - what I learned from a spiritual day Prioritizing and sequencing are not the same things When was Lars happy? 3 mindset shifts for agile transformations How we agile - principle-led & context-dependent Autonomous does not mean isolated Reflection on a daily retrospectives The Kondo software quality index Scaling agile - up or out Principles and practices, guilds and cross-functional teams Tags, markers and behaviour it drives on the board The things I (we) worry about in vain Make a copy of GitHub repo - the script way Bash script to add file(s) to all repositories in an organisation Reflections after Agile Greece Some reflections after a few days as a musician What I learned when installing 33 developer computers in 5 hours Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit Keeping copies of charts from Google Sheets updated automatically Priority 0 - we meet again A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency My top 10 books Futurespective - put the past in front of you Review - The art of coaching Values and living them Summarizing and filtering data with QUERY and a Google Sheet drop-down Create a dynamically updated chart in Google Sheets Lean/flow simulation experiments My first all-remote retrospective Don't skip hack days - that silly habit is what you are No - waterfall is not sometimes correct. It is always wrong Report writing - using impact maps, Stephen Covey and increments The kanban blessing Two stories I often tell on WIP as a process improvement tool My obsession with teams What I learned coaching a car dealership on stage Teams are immutable structures Deploy and release Values to guide us From push to pull - the essence of kanban Writing a script to extract pictures from Word documents Get a good start - start your days mid-day Respecting your vacation - how I ended up with 0 emails in my inbox after 4 weeks vacation Coaching when help is not wanted or important Impacts or backlogs The nervous stats checker oscillating syndrome CodeBetter.com posts reposted Repost - The time when we did Lean backwards An idea for visualising scope creep Some roles I take on - and what they are A decade of blogging... Who is this important for? Big room planning - a workaround that can be useful Move the information to the authority considered harmful It's all perspective - why haven't I seen that before? Lead like you lead volunteers Thank you Rob Backlog and features Jidoka - an old Toyota practice makes an guest appearance A scary thought experiment Solving the underpants gnomes pitfall Some thoughts after Lean Kanban North America 2016 Requirements are not problem/opportunity descriptions Developer failure Our fear of forgetting important things Flow manager - is that me? Frequent releases and no urge to finish What are you optimized for then? We don't know what will work - a story from last week Electronic process management tools - proceed with care S, M, L estimate should not start with a date span The hidden agenda of agile.... An exercise from 5 dysfunctions of a team What is important, really? ... what does that say about me Indonesia, Agile, Kanban, Lean - its a new book What if only small works? Prioritization - some thoughts and tools Book review: 50 quick ideas to improve your retrospectives Barrier troops Speed up Jekyll site regeneration Using the scientific method on our board Making dynamic chart in Excel The metric / visualization pirate 'rules' How trust, kanban and a little structure changed a life today Changes - reasons or the opposite The forced swing in my garden... and coaching The Lars-principle Review: Nature by Ron Jeffries Indicators; leading, trailing - short or long What can you do for us then? Experiment - don't change The 1000th post Wash your hands - make your hands clean Progress indicators, estimates and plans ca 10 minutes on effective meetings Creating a 'Movie credits' animation in Keynote ca 10 minutes on Root Cause Analysis QA: How big is a work item? Getting Elixir to run on my OsX (init terminating in do_boot) Only help those that want help ca 15 minutes on Kanban ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping ca 15 minutes on strategic plans ca 10 minutes on Vision statements ca 10 minutes on Mission statements New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it McDonalds - a tool to explain flow How to add and translate subtitles for your YouTube video in 10 minutes It's just context - a story about my ignorance YOW West 2015 - some thoughts No #No - more #Less Meta is not the most important thing Waste and why I rather talk about something else How to get Google Analytics to work for your Single Page Application Stuff I said coaching Order points, value, flow and waste Why don't they change: What would make me behave like that? Saying thank you for agile manifesto Open letter: Management tips to Dr Lillian A world without WHY What if money was not an issue? All the great teams How far have we come? Things I say often: I don't care about efficiency Things I say often: I'm into leadership - not management Make it smaller - some practical experiences Things I say often: Improving means changing Things I say often: Why? New series: 'Things I say often' Best advice for me this year What is The Goal? Evaluating my presentations... and pricing them? How would you measure that? What I've learned from 'How to measure anything' Data you can't do anything about - what's the use? Always ask kenapa Showing part of Excel trend line in other diagram Inspections welcome A good person and a bad system - my take ' How I prepare and create presentations Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings Its just an experiment - experiments in practice The "Don''t fear audits and the news"-business methodology - with certification The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting... The humble blogger approach - some practical tips Embrace uncertainty - the family version Effective revisited Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean? cc all the things Some thoughts about waste and waste reduction The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope My second book is out ... kinda Ugly clothing, symbols and values How to make a empty diagram in Excel ...and then it moved - the greatest feeling in the world! Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad? If you build it - things will improve; turning visualizations to knowledge Ask a simpler question - real data speaks louder Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things Luck has nothing to do with it What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment Coaching exercise - building Lego Simple = Good. Complex = Bad. But what does it mean? Delegation and my jedi mind trick Move the authority to the information, and not the other way around The “talk about later”-list You control the disappointment dial - use it! Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think Screencast on Getting started with Koa Js “Waiting” should be a note and not a column MongoDb and the "10309 Unable to create/open lock file" on Ubuntu Do something together - what Indonesians taught me, part I Looking for better No... this is how I think ' Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I Do you think Kanban can help us? Marcus Node Bits - Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all Repost - Do we dare to be data-driven Share your internet connection via WiFi on Windows 8.1 Nancy Fx - now you can read her too! ' I am telling you for the last time - Marcus style What I am talking about -No - I dont mean work faster What I am talking about - Yes - Im talking about changing Communication and rotting specifications ' Repost - Weighted index – a simple, powerful prioritization tool Commitment can only emerge - it can't be demanded What My Fair Lady can teach us about communication Move files at regular intervals on OSX CodeBetter - a new home for part of me Repost - Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery Export all images from a Word (.doc) document .. and rename them What if ... mob programming? Let's do something instead! Are you coding for change or for stability? Limit WIP doesn't mean doing less Daily Sync for five teams - and get something out of it Between the chairs some thoughts on backlogs and things outside them Suggested visualization for the SÖS Children Emergency The I am not allowed to do columns like that-problem www.marcusoft.net - 800 posts and counting How to run a LeanCoffee discussion Team marketplace - how we splitted a big 40 person team into 5 small in 2 hours On constraints Have presentations - will travel Hello Aptitud! Good bye Avega! Autonomy in action - school kids Impact Mapping - great book, great tool Unearned trust Top 5 Agile change tips 5 - Used visualized data to improve Top 5 Agile change tips 4 - Support the initiative Top 5 Agile change tips 3 - Let them change how they work Top 5 Agile change tips 2 - Sit together Top 5 Agile change tips 1 - Get a great or-else-reason Improving presence of a remote worker in our team Applying Switch framework to Meetings are not real work - part III Applying Switch framework to Meetings are not real work - part II Applying Switch framework to Meetings are not real work Simple where-do-we-spend-our-time visualisation Working to the Cake-limit Experience report from rolling out agile in a big (120+ ppl) organization What BDD is all about System.InvalidOperationException No automation provider available MsTest and FluentAutomation Ask simpler questions–agile for non-techies III SpecFlow, page objects and FluentAutomation Deploying often is better–agile for non-techies II Fixed price is bad for you - Agile for non-techies part I Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part III Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests It’s a cultural thing I’m writing a book on Kanban! How I do sprint planning Some thoughts on KPI’s in agile organizations Some common Kanban questions–my suggestions “If you quit today”–make someone happy Applying the Switch framework to broken builds Log4Net, RollingFile named by Date and the staticLogFileName setting Kanban-inzg the Avega Group Office–reflections Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–getting the show on the road Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–setting the stage Twitter for beginners My mouse pointer disappeared in Visual Studio when using a dark theme Clean up your steps–use page objects in SpecFlow step definitions SpecFlow presentation at Sweden Progressive .NET How to apply a pull request on GitHub with TortoiseGit The power of Visualization used in my current project Managing BDD features in our project (using TFS) SpecFlow.exe and MsTest Group coding–a knowledge sharing tool The emperor is naked–don’t ask me to estimate! No more bugs – a thought experiment Different appSetttings for each developer in the team - part II How to use different app.config for each developer Supported Step Exporter – watch your language Virtual PC performance tip Multi-core support A story on specification by example in two projects Solution to closing the lid of my MacBook cause it to get VERY hot TF203007 Cannot create the label because the version controlled item […] already exists or has been specified more than once Using ATDD in conversion project WCF, MVVM and good client design Configure WCF in IIS for anonymous access Specification by example – the missing link? Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi Testing with Unity, Policy injection and solving “Ambiguous match found. (Strategy type Instance Interception Strategy” problem Short and sweet introduction to RESTful services Nice, easy and working description on how to compact a Virtual PC Image BDD with SpecFlow – some thoughts after a workshop at Elevate Great Git-reference for non-commandliners SOAPUi and others – regression testing services Synchronization for consultants – it works! AutoMapper – get rid of your tedious mapping code Inbox zero TDD and legacy code Red Beads and Limited WIP Society Skillsmatter – so much to watch, so little time Online diff tool The value of an ubiquitous language DataSource in Oracle Connectionstrings Moving items between listboxes with JQuery Agile testing – some thoughts after an excellent Elevate-evening When is good – decide already! Marcus trying JQuery ÖreDev day 3 – morning sessions ÖreDev Day 1 - Accomplishing more by doing less Agile Coaching stuff Private source control repository with integration in Visual Studio for free How to press F9-F12 in a Parallels Desktop Windows Image Sharp Architecture presentations Delete-key in Parallels Desktop AspxPivotGrid – a mighty web control DropBox – your drive in the cloud Marcus and Mac my clumsy fingers Import Outlook contacts to Mac Address Book – for free Getting to the root of all things bad Kanban – a great agile tool Synchronization for consultants – how I got it to work Visit of Ivar Jacobson Powerpoint online – 280 slides Reference work 3 – TDD by example Pair programming benefits and arguments Marcus doing new stuff Pastie – your online clipboard Dos-script to delete all Visual Studio Intermediate files Pomodoro – being agile and focused on the individual level Some great SOA – articles Booting from a VHD in Windows 7 I am back working Parental leave reading Windows Azure Debating a hero Årets höjdare 2009 MOQ and the Test Run deployment issue The location of the file or directory problem ASP.NET MVC – Running transformation error Sync Issues – my contact are back Avega – top of the game! Why DDD rocks – the marcusoft.net version Get Vista to go faster Clean code - the pragmatic approach Last day - new chapter RefCardz - great first stop Update AppSettings with XmlUpdate in build scripts Custom tool warning cannot import wsdl:portType WCF with handcrafted WSDL generated no FaultExceptions 2008 - another great year About this blog Compress a string with zip AddressFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher Leave my WiFi-card alone! Please! The blog in stereo Aspects - I love it! Run as... Calling Sandcastle with response file Agile testing - how we get it to work Missing references showing nicely with ReSharper Regular Expression for even number Marcus - now in full color video... Automation of integration tests PostSharp - a new aspect on coding Sleepless in Stockholm Converting Class library project to MS Test project Run Explorer as another account Enterprise Library, OracleTypes and their mapping Result of modelling ScrumIndexCardCreator - my first CodePlex project New model job Over soon Vista - running programs with an elevated command prompt Oracle and .NET - start here Process Explorer - a good tool Presentations OOP hardcore principles Sprint demo again... Way out book on Ruby Avega - I like it! How to get equivalent proxy-classes to implement a shared interface Great Silverlight 2.0 Tutorial Design patterns II Sprint demo, cold and speed What is SOA? What is SOAP-RPC? Design patterns Sprint 1 - demo-time! WebCam Server Great project started Doing SCRUM in TFS Could not find file 'Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime error for testprojects Rhetorics - a good start ASP.NET MVC - start WebDesign - a great introduction True stuff doesn't need to be boring - The Tao of programming 2007 - coming to an end Marcus list of how to get problem in a system developement project Asp.Net 2.0 Profile in Web Application Projects Resharper! For VB.NET? Not much Last sprint-demo of the project Teamplain rocks Slow and fast Declaring arrays in VB.NET What every .NET-programmer should know SCRUM vs RUP - practical comparison New shiny Avega-website TFS Build watcher - finally Scrum - bringing fun back to development Demo done - and training in the pipe Good introduction to instrumentation Demo-time - sprint 5 Intensive pair-programming - comparing entity data Marcus - the model Marcus - the model? Free web templates Visual Studio 2008 Langauge differences C# and VB.Net GUICE - a google framework New language Demo-time! VSTS bug... or is it? Home again - now with pictures System.Transaction and maxTimeout TDD - good introduction We'll meet again... Scary stuff 1 - taken down New assignment Dependency Injection - explained Spring.NET Loud personal details VB.NET or C# USB-mice eating - maybe SCRUM - an nice overview Visual Studio tips and tricks Free books and presentations on Agile stuff Great article - humble Marcus Chasing bugs Design patterns Lots of things to do Hectict week to an end Edit web.config in nice GUI Scrum - my first encounter Good information concering double hop Happy - and still going Happy week - so far so good Be good! Alone in the office Outlook Clean Query analyser stuff with Notepad Excel - my favorite code generator No phoneeating today Eating my mobile... and a Nanbread Visual Studio Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time using Chocolately Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow My mouse pointer disappeared in Visual Studio when using a dark theme Different appSetttings for each developer in the team - part II Solution to the "Could not find file 'Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime error" for testprojects Could not find file 'Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime error for testprojects Moving items in a CheckedListBox Convert C# to VB.NET and back again Displaying XML in WebBrowser control TFS Widget Creating a dynamical AutoComplete textbox Resharper! For VB.NET? - Revisited Asp.Net 2.0 Profile in Web Application Projects Resharper! For VB.NET? Great tool(s) for VB.Net - Find dead code A lot of Team System TFS useful links Unable to emit assembly Referenced assembly does not have a strong name New (better?) refactoring support for VB.NET Visual Studio 2008 Sandcastle or Marcus betting on the wrong horse? Refactoring support for VB.NET AddIn - problem and solutions Find missing VB.NET documentation Count your lines! Count them one by one VB.NET - warnings for XML documentation, denied VB.NET showing build configuration Bad Request/Underlying connection was closed problem solved Battle of the TFS build script Load-event of UserControls in design mode Long running debug-sessions in Visual Studio 2005 VSTS bug... or is it? Chose your battles Including namespaces in new VB.NET classes VB.NET - not that bad VB.NET or C# Visual Studio tips and tricks Free books and presentations on Agile stuff MSBuild bug (kinda...) Bug in Visual Studio 2005 Toggle regions in Visual Studio 2005 More about generic webservces Generic webservice creator using generics and delegates Well structured projects in Visual Studio 2005 Use command line option '/keyfile' or appropriate project settings instead of 'AssemblyKeyFile' myCssProp is not a known CSS property name BrassBand - Euphonium My light and song Recording of Priority - DONE! Recording session II Recommended listening Applause BrassBand Hard to get started, Salvation Army and brass banding Norwegian Championships – the aftermath Norwegian Brass Band Championships – live 2008 - another great year Swedish Brass Band Championships 2008 - the aftermath Brass band videos, anyone? 2008 European Championships - the results 2008 European Championships - my predictions More Black Dyke live video Black Dyke Live Concert New York Staff Band and Enfield together Recording with the Vasa Band 4BarsRest - review of 'In perfect peace' Swedish brass band championships 2007 - follow-up David Childs and the Hot Canary Hairs standing up! Listen, just listen to the band British Open Brass Band Championships Black Dyke overture Salvation Army banding in Stockholm Tenor horn - Owen Farr Whit friday and Black Dyke Göteborg brass band aftermath European sounds Melbourne Staff Band European - in retrospect Brass band European Championships 2007 Brassband radio Brass band festival on radio Eikanger concert on radio Hendon band Mecka for brass bandits Marcus - the presenter YBS - alive and kicking? Weekend impressions Happy all the day Listen to the band CD from Eikanger-Bjørsvik Results from Swedish Championships Mnozil Brass Swedish brass band championships - revisited Grimethorpe performance in full Swedish brass band championships British Nationals, Brass band Back from the road Salvation Army Here people are saying kind things about each others The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated! ca 10 minutes on effective meetings ca 10 minutes on Root Cause Analysis ca 15 minutes on Kanban ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping ca 15 minutes on strategic plans ca 10 minutes on Vision statements ca 10 minutes on Mission statements New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it How to add and translate subtitles for your YouTube video in 10 minutes It's just context - a story about my ignorance Why don't they change: what if I could just snap my fingers? Open letter: Management tips to Dr Lillian Make it smaller - some practical experiences Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings Its just an experiment - experiments in practice Gods care through the Band Tune Book The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting... Effective revisited The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope Ugly clothing, symbols and values If you build it - things will improve; turning visualizations to knowledge Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things Simple = Good. Complex = Bad. But what does it mean? The “talk about later”-list Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think What I missed, longed for, happy to not have from fasting from social media Do something together - what Indonesians taught me, part I No... this is how I think ' Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I Team Yayasan week 5 Redoing Todo Team Yayasan week 4 - Throughput and lead times For the Indonesian War Cry - Achieve more by doing less For the Indonesian War Cry - On Motivation Team Yayasan week 2 - Transparency, culture and lower WIP Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals Moving to Indonesia It’s a cultural thing “If you quit today”–make someone happy Music and photos from Vasa Band Vasa Band does it again Vasa Band and Saturday night success Vacation time and stress management Hard to get started, Salvation Army and brass banding Vasakåren - new website Prayer works – Jesus hears them Together in transformation – An agile Salvation Army 2008 - another great year Christmas times - hectic times VasaBand - full speed ahead Retreat - creative silience Weekend over - let's rest Commenting the Stockholm Marathon A night at the shelter New York Staff Band and Enfield together Recording of Priority - DONE! Recording session II Recording with the Vasa Band 2007 - coming to an end Weekend report - part 1 Vasakåren Jul VasaBand - my band! VasaKårens Jul Friends in need Miriam - new media reverend of Sweden? Morning devotional - by friend of mine Marcus - the model? Salvation Army banding in Stockholm Dignity - gone! Humanism VasaGospel release Melbourne Staff Band Weekend to an end Hendon band Hectict week to an end Salvo Audio - is this for real? Futureforce of VasaCorps Pictures from caroling in Old Town Caroling done for this year, almost Weird stuff on the agenda Busy times - our choice? VasaBand - on the roll Weekend impressions Happy all the day VasaGospel Brassband silly season Marcus private - BrassBand Saturday of brass band, presenting and fun Music and photos from Vasa Band Vasa Band does it again Vasa Band and Saturday night success Christmas times - hectic times Swedish Brass Band Championships 2008 VasaBand - full speed ahead Weekend over - let's rest Commenting the Stockholm Marathon Weekend report - part 2 Weekend report - part 1 Håkan Björkman Stockholm Brass Band Marcus - published! Swedish brass band championships 2007 In perfect peace British Open - the results Morning devotional - by friend of mine End of an era Scary stuff - all of the list Bengt Eklund Weekend to an end James Watson Weird stuff on the agenda Weekend with the Band Christmas concert Busy times - our choice? VasaBand - on the roll Fun The MVC song In Control V - Cactus Cuties De Blob – get a joy-kick! Tuba Hero In Control II - Bobby McFerrin Bus drivers on strike in Stockholm Butchering Star Wars Gifted elephant Way out book on Ruby In control Galenskaparna - hits from the past Patapon - refreshing new game Behind the scenes on Microsoft Keep you eyes open Whose line is it anyway? Greatest American Hero Non-stop laugh... Suprise of the day? Bullet Hell Tactics - .NET Awards Mor i skutan Only in Japan Get a life! Now! Schlager treat The french Midiomi New language Big ad Runway? Chuck! Directions Pixar - again Pixar - for the birds Laugh of the day Linus on the line... New, addictive and a bit provocative You got talent? Fling me away Chad Vader Surfs up Keep all your limbs to yourself Marcus like Loke The Marine biologist Marcus private - Fun The Flight of the Concords Japanese Toilet Training I was first! Punk being nice Oooh - thoose sweet zomibes (?) Traffic in Russia Gambling... Useful YouTube - ExpertVillage.com The little home genealogist The famous Noah and his camera UltraStar - free karaoke for your PC Merry ... continuation Elfing away The definitive handling of phone salesmen YouTube Greetings Marcus private - Euphonium Gods care through the Band Tune Book Hospital caroling .NET - SOA Credentials passing in SOA-solutions for .NET Scrum The consequences of prioritizing Tags, markers and behaviour it drives on the board KanbanStats VI: Queue length KanbanStats V: Single numbers KanbanStats IV: Where is time spent? KanbanStats III: throughput KanbanStats II: filter the process chart KanbanStats: Simplify process stats - get started A story about dentists... busy dentists Board visualisation tips Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit Some thoughts on organizing a team of developers Some thoughts on backlogs Reading the Scrum Guide Comments on common board practices - Walk the board from right to left Comments on common board practices - Focus on the work - not the workers Comments on common board practices - It’s not a kanban board if you don’t have a WIP limit Comments on common board practices - Colours speaks volumes. Use colours wisely Comments on common board practices - Done? There is no Done Comments on common board practices - Todo/Doing/Done is not your process Comments on common board practices - blocked should not be a column The best product owner I ever met Electronic process management tools - proceed with care All the great teams How we created the need for an emergency lane Emergency lanes - some tips Things I say often: NO! This is how you tear off a post-it Things I say often: This is your board - change it I am telling you for the last time - Marcus style Commitment can only emerge - it can't be demanded Repost - Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery Summer sprints - a time to learn How I do sprint planning The power of Visualization used in my current project Task Board for Team System – finally! DDD – the coin drops for Marcus What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization Great SCRUM-resources Agile testing - how we get it to work Sprint demo again... Sprint demo, cold and speed Sprint 1 - demo-time! WebCam Server Conchango burndown chart is not working TF 20017 - The area or iteration provided for field 'IterationPath' could not be found Doing SCRUM in TFS Not much Last sprint-demo of the project Slow and fast Planning poker online SCRUM vs RUP - practical comparison Sprint demo Scrum - bringing fun back to development ScrumIndexCardCreator Demo-time! Scary stuff 1 - taken down SCRUM - an nice overview Scrum - my first encounter Agile Plans are theoretical A data-driven prognosis report Some thoughts on scaled agile Some questions about estimation and plannning Building teams - where our training starts Remote work, transparency, and feedback Experience report: first week of 2 x 5 mobs going remote How do I kanbanize my 300 items backlog - a response How we start with trust and vulnerable in our developer training Applied learning - things noticed How do you get so much done? Metrics on 'well-defined' projects - and what I learned about uncertainty Why the retrospective prime directive is paramount Talking about what really matters to us - what I learned from a spiritual day Prioritizing and sequencing are not the same things When was Lars happy? 3 mindset shifts for agile transformations How we agile - principle-led & context-dependent Autonomous does not mean isolated Reflection on a daily retrospectives The consequences of prioritizing KanbanStats - an average improvement The Kondo software quality index Scaling agile - up or out Principles and practices, guilds and cross-functional teams Tags, markers and behaviour it drives on the board The things I (we) worry about in vain KanbanStats VI: Queue length KanbanStats V: Single numbers KanbanStats IV: Where is time spent? KanbanStats III: throughput KanbanStats II: filter the process chart KanbanStats: Simplify process stats - get started A story about dentists... busy dentists Board visualisation tips Kanban - cementing the flow? 3 basic (priorization) assumptions Playing with names What should I pick? Reflections after Agile Greece Some reflections after a few days as a musician Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit What are you going do when it's really important, then? Thinking in flow - some recent thoughts Priority 0 - we meet again A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency My top 10 books Futurespective - put the past in front of you Review - The art of coaching Some thoughts on organizing a team of developers Flow and dependencies Values and living them Some thoughts on backlogs Respecting slack time Viral Change and some thoughts about tools Review of A seat at the table Limiting WIP and some rules of thumb Lean/flow simulation experiments TDD for 9 year olds - an experiment in teaching my sons class A post on the post on queue length My first all-remote retrospective Don't skip hack days - that silly habit is what you are No - waterfall is not sometimes correct. It is always wrong Report writing - using impact maps, Stephen Covey and increments The kanban blessing When we used user story mapping to plan our move Two stories I often tell on WIP as a process improvement tool My obsession with teams What I learned coaching a car dealership on stage Teams are immutable structures Deploy and release Values to guide us From push to pull - the essence of kanban Flow in the F1-pit - thoughts on an inspiring video Get a good start - start your days mid-day Changing the die - that can't go faster What does technical debt feel like? Respecting your vacation - how I ended up with 0 emails in my inbox after 4 weeks vacation Coaching when help is not wanted or important Impacts or backlogs A walking retrospective that only turns up the good The nervous stats checker oscillating syndrome Reading the Scrum Guide Repost - The time when we did Lean backwards Comments on common board practices - Walk the board from right to left Some kanban Q & A Feb 2017 Comments on common board practices - Focus on the work - not the workers Comments on common board practices - It’s not a kanban board if you don’t have a WIP limit Comments on common board practices - Colours speaks volumes. Use colours wisely Comments on common board practices - Done? There is no Done Comments on common board practices - Todo/Doing/Done is not your process Comments on common board practices - blocked should not be a column An idea for visualising scope creep Some roles I take on - and what they are Some thoughts after running the marshmallow challenge with kids 3 success factors for a big room planning Here people are saying kind things about each others Some useful practices for flow oriented standup meetings Bring out the good Design our work Reflections on TankWars or when 2 minutes was slow The best product owner I ever met Who is this important for? Big room planning - a workaround that can be useful Move the information to the authority considered harmful Principles over (best) practices No heroics and awesome people Toyota Kata and the 'We can't do that here'-fallacy It's all perspective - why haven't I seen that before? Lead like you lead volunteers Some reflections after seeing mob programming in action The Bungsu Story - some progress Backlog and features Jidoka - an old Toyota practice makes an guest appearance A scary thought experiment Solving the underpants gnomes pitfall Some thoughts after Lean Kanban North America 2016 Requirements are not problem/opportunity descriptions Flow or value - what is it, Marcus?! Our fear of forgetting important things Some simple changes for flow that made a world of a difference Flow manager - is that me? Frequent releases and no urge to finish What are you optimized for then? Thoughts after a SAFe course The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated! We don't know what will work - a story from last week Electronic process management tools - proceed with care S, M, L estimate should not start with a date span The hidden agenda of agile.... An exercise from 5 dysfunctions of a team What is important, really? My day off ... what does that say about me Indonesia, Agile, Kanban, Lean - its a new book What if only small works? Prioritization - some thoughts and tools Book review: 50 quick ideas to improve your retrospectives Some kanban questions from a keen learner, and my answers Barrier troops Using the scientific method on our board Review: #NoEstimates - the book The metric / visualization pirate 'rules' How trust, kanban and a little structure changed a life today Changes - reasons or the opposite The forced swing in my garden... and coaching The Lars-principle Review: Nature by Ron Jeffries Indicators; leading, trailing - short or long What can you do for us then? Experiment - don't change Wash your hands - make your hands clean Progress indicators, estimates and plans ca 10 minutes on effective meetings QA: How big is a work item? Only help those that want help ca 15 minutes on Kanban ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping ca 15 minutes on strategic plans ca 10 minutes on Vision statements ca 10 minutes on Mission statements New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it McDonalds - a tool to explain flow Make a command to count my files 50 quick ideas to improve your tests - a review YOW West 2015 - some thoughts No #No - more #Less Meta is not the most important thing Waste and why I rather talk about something else Stuff I said coaching Order points, value, flow and waste What I've learned from the first 30% of Reinventing Organizations Why don't they change: what if I could just snap my fingers? Why don't they change: What would make me behave like that? Please question the process Saying thank you for agile manifesto Motivating in a world without WHY What the traffic in Jakarta taught me about slack Open letter: Management tips to Dr Lillian A world without WHY Why I built page-logger... and how it made me money What if money was not an issue? All the great teams How far have we come? Review: Cucumber for Java How we created the need for an emergency lane Things I say often: I don't care about efficiency Emergency lanes - some tips Things I say often: I run on feedback Things I say often: I'm into leadership - not management Make it smaller - some practical experiences Things I say often: NO! This is how you tear off a post-it Things I say often: Improving means changing Things I say often: Why? Things I say often: This is your board - change it Best advice for me this year Ferguson never touched the ball What is The Goal? 50 Quick Ideas on User stories Evaluating my presentations... and pricing them? How would you measure that? What I've learned from 'How to measure anything' Data you can't do anything about - what's the use? Stop starting - start finishing, or else... Always ask kenapa Inspections welcome A good person and a bad system - my take ' How I prepare and create presentations Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings Its just an experiment - experiments in practice The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting... Embrace uncertainty - the family version Effective revisited cc all the things Some thoughts about waste and waste reduction Todo Add tests ... The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope My second book is out ... kinda Ugly clothing, symbols and values How to make a empty diagram in Excel ...and then it moved - the greatest feeling in the world! Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad? If you build it - things will improve; turning visualizations to knowledge Ask a simpler question - real data speaks louder Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things Luck has nothing to do with it What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment Some thoughts I got after talking with Woody Zuil Coaching exercise - building Lego KoaJs Making the make file test, push and all that Simple = Good. Complex = Bad. But what does it mean? KoaJs - the fast route between idea and production Delegation and my jedi mind trick The “talk about later”-list You control the disappointment dial - use it! Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think “Waiting” should be a note and not a column Marcus Node Bits - Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)' Looking for better No... this is how I think ' Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I Team Yayasan week 5 Redoing Todo Marcus Node Bits - Let us talk about Koa for a while, shall we? Do you think Kanban can help us? Team Yayasan week 4 - Throughput and lead times Marcus Node Bits - Ok then, Moogose is pretty sweet Team Yayasan - getting started Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals Marcus Node Bits - Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all Repost - Do we dare to be data-driven On lead time and important projects What do you want to give customers; bad or good news? I am telling you for the last time - Marcus style What I am talking about -No - I dont mean work faster What I am talking about - Yes - Im talking about changing Communication and rotting specifications ' Repost - Weighted index – a simple, powerful prioritization tool Commitment can only emerge - it can't be demanded Some experience with uncertainty What My Fair Lady can teach us about communication A session on Open source software at Microsoft Repost - Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery Repost - Mob programming – full team, full throttle Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time using Chocolately Rules versus guiding stars ... and a lot about soccer Lean UX with effect map - from HeltSonika Impact mapping - you are not WHO Low WIP, hairdressers and Lean operation strategy What if ... mob programming? MVP is not another word for iterations - it's for learning Let's do something instead! Are you coding for change or stability - the followup post Are you coding for change or for stability? Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip - push HOW down Limit WIP doesn't mean doing less Daily Sync for five teams - and get something out of it Between the chairs some thoughts on backlogs and things outside them Suggested visualization for the SÖS Children Emergency The I am not allowed to do columns like that-problem Nancy.Testing - a closer look through her testability How to run a LeanCoffee discussion Team marketplace - how we splitted a big 40 person team into 5 small in 2 hours On constraints Have presentations - will travel Autonomy in action - school kids Unearned trust TDD for kids Code Freeze, Recompile and Code generations - stuff thats not that scary with CD Specification by example and Model based testing You say 'continuous delivery', I say 'limit WIP' Top 5 Agile change tips 5 - Used visualized data to improve Top 5 Agile change tips 4 - Support the initiative Top 5 Agile change tips 3 - Let them change how they work Top 5 Agile change tips 2 - Sit together Top 5 Agile change tips 1 - Get a great or-else-reason Improving presence of a remote worker in our team Applying Switch framework to Meetings are not real work - part III Applying Switch framework to Meetings are not real work - part II Applying Switch framework to Meetings are not real work Simple where-do-we-spend-our-time visualisation Working to the Cake-limit Summer sprints - a time to learn Experience report from rolling out agile in a big (120+ ppl) organization What BDD is all about Find the control–a way to stabilize UI automation… a bit Ask simpler questions–agile for non-techies III SpecFlow, page objects and FluentAutomation Deploying often is better–agile for non-techies II Fixed price is bad for you - Agile for non-techies part I Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part III Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part II Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests I’m writing a book on Kanban! Common Kanban mistakes Not limiting WIP Should I add bugs-scenarios in my specification? How I do sprint planning Some thoughts on KPI’s in agile organizations Some common Kanban questions–my suggestions What is agile? Applying the Switch framework to broken builds What i learned from 'From User stories to Acceptance tests' with Gojko Adzic BDD and technical scenarios OreDev 2011 - day 3 OreDev 2011 - day 2 OreDev 2011 - day 1 Is Scrum a –ism that doesn’t work for real? Kanban-inzg the Avega Group Office–reflections Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–getting the show on the road Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–setting the stage Who writes the specification, now again? BDD on .NET Framework and where I learned about it Theory of constraints and Specification by example part II Theory of constraints and Specification by example Specification by example with SpecLog–some initial thoughts SpecFlow presentation at Sweden Progressive .NET The power of Visualization used in my current project Developing in .Net–a new era has begun Specification by example with SpecFlow in TFS and the question of traceability Managing BDD features in our project (using TFS) Using tags in SpecFlow features Group coding–a knowledge sharing tool The emperor is naked–don’t ask me to estimate! No more bugs – a thought experiment How to use different app.config for each developer A story on specification by example in two projects Using BDD with SpecFlow, WPF and White Using ATDD in conversion project Specification by example – the missing link? Status of workitems – where to keep it Practical Kanban – some Kanban boards in practices BDD with SpecFlow – some thoughts after a workshop at Elevate SOAPUi and testing WCF Services – how I made it work SOAPUi and others – regression testing services ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD? Inbox zero TDD and legacy code Trying Coding Dojo, Kata and Extreme OOP Red Beads and Limited WIP Society Skillsmatter – so much to watch, so little time The value of an ubiquitous language Kanban example by Henrik Kniberg Integrationtests for ASP.NET MVC applications Agile testing – some thoughts after an excellent Elevate-evening ÖreDev day 5 – keynote and morning' ÖreDev day 4 – Why your agile adoption fails with Dan North ÖreDev day 4 – morning ÖreDev day 3 – afternoon ÖreDev day 3 – morning sessions ÖreDev Day 1 - Accomplishing more by doing less Agile Coaching stuff DDD and Naked Objects WebCasts on all things agile Another great Kanban introduction Getting to the root of all things bad Kanban – a great agile tool Visit of Ivar Jacobson Reference work 3 – TDD by example Pair programming benefits and arguments Test NHibnernate mappings with Fluent NHibnernate Implementing Unit Of Work with NHibernate More great stuff on BDD Parental leave reading Debating a hero Together in transformation – An agile Salvation Army What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization Clean code - the pragmatic approach NMock2 RemotingException ByRef value type parameter cannot be null Great SCRUM-resources Agile testing - how we get it to work PostSharp - a new aspect on coding Way out book on Ruby Intensive pair-programming - comparing entity data ScrumIndexCardCreator Demo done - SCRUM rocks! Demo-time! TDD - good introduction Scary stuff 1 - taken down Hectict times SCRUM - an nice overview Free books and presentations on Agile stuff Agile? Great article - humble Marcus Scrum - my first encounter BrassBand - Fun - Euphonium Multi-gifted - Glyn Williams Tuba Circus - don't try this at home kids .NET - NHibernate AutoMapping with FluentNHibernate NHibernate NHibernate ‘urn:nhibernate-mapping-2.2' has invalid child element 'property' and Fluent NHibnerate System.BadImageFormatException Could not load file or assembly System.Data.SQLite ÖreDev day 5 – keynote and morning' ÖreDev day 3 – afternoon ÖreDev day 2 – NHibernate in practice' Fluent NHibnerate CheckReference throws Expected ‘X’ but got ‘XProxy’ Test NHibnernate mappings with Fluent NHibnernate Get rid of your xml – go Fluent NHibernate Implementing Unit Of Work with NHibernate DLINQ - Hibernate with Microsoft flavor TDD How I tackled a hard problem in a new language Trying out test commit or revert TDD for 9 year olds - an experiment in teaching my sons class Todo Add tests ... Marcus Node Bits - supertest is a nice way to test an api' Marcus Node Bits - Should is a nice way to do asserts Nancy Fx - now you can read her too! ' Have presentations - will travel TDD for kids Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow What BDD is all about Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part III Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests–part II Applying the Switch framework to developers don’t want to write tests TDD and Scaffolding Should & Substitute–two new great friends Snippet for creating testmethod in VB.NET SpecFlow BDD .NET-style ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD? NUnit and the constraint based model TDD and legacy code Trying Coding Dojo, Kata and Extreme OOP Reference work 3 – TDD by example Great introduction to BDD S#arp Architecture Sprint Planner Helper – final Sprint Planner Helper – Session 25 UpdateModel, FormCollection and unit test Sprint Planner Helper – Session 21 MOQ and the Test Run deployment issue The location of the file or directory problem Sprint Planner Helper – Session 19 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 15 Why DDD rocks – the marcusoft.net version Sprint Planner Helper – Session 11 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 6 Snippet for creating testmethod in C# Sprint Planner Helper – Session 3 Save some space - limit the number of old test results What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization NMock2 RemotingException ByRef value type parameter cannot be null How to read other exe's config ASP.NET MVC Storefront Agile testing - how we get it to work The right way of calling MSTest in a TFS build script How to run MSTest with publish parameter as MSBuild Exec-task Automation of integration tests TFS, MSBuild and Code Coverage How to get rid of multiple .vsmdi-files TypeMock - an introduction TDD - good introduction TDD - how is it done? Life of a consultant - Scrum Demo done - SCRUM rocks! Hectict times Agile- TDD Why do TDD? TDD - how is it done? Vol 2 VB.NET Snippet for creating testmethod in VB.NET Vb.net considered harmful Casting in VB.NET PostSharp - a new aspect on coding Using LINQ for the first time, for real ReSharper and the messed up Intellisense Exclude generated code from code coverage result in Team System Transactions in stored procedures with transaction scope How? What? He LIKES VB.NET? How to get out of syntax highlighting in VB.NET Real answer - Type typename is not CLS-compliant, interface, tests and dependency injection Type typename is not CLS-compliant, interface, tests and dependency injection Show current file in solution Solution to the "Could not find file 'Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime error" for testprojects Moving items in a CheckedListBox Convert C# to VB.NET and back again Displaying XML in WebBrowser control Creating a dynamical AutoComplete textbox Resharper! For VB.NET? - Revisited Resharper! For VB.NET? Declaring arrays in VB.NET Send mail with VB.NET - and get notification if recipient couldn't be reached Great tool(s) for VB.Net - Find dead code Unable to emit assembly Referenced assembly does not have a strong name New (better?) refactoring support for VB.NET Langauge differences C# and VB.Net Refactoring support for VB.NET Get current user name and with VB.NET AddIn - problem and solutions Find missing VB.NET documentation Transform XML with XSL, and string VB.NET - warnings for XML documentation, denied VB.NET showing build configuration Bad Request/Underlying connection was closed problem solved Chose your battles Including namespaces in new VB.NET classes VB.NET - not that bad TFS Applying the Switch framework to broken builds Specification by example with SpecFlow in TFS and the question of traceability Managing BDD features in our project (using TFS) TF203007 Cannot create the label because the version controlled item […] already exists or has been specified more than once Task Board for Team System – finally! Sprint Planner Helper - administration Working directory for Build Agents and building different branches What is a workspace in TFS? Not trigger new build on check-in - TFS Build version of ExclusionFilters TFS Build targets and properties - the official list The right way of calling MSTest in a TFS build script How to run MSTest with publish parameter as MSBuild Exec-task ReSharper crashes TESTTOOLSTASK warning VSP1024 Unable to open file file for writing. How to fail a tfs-build on test failing TFS, MSBuild and Code Coverage Exclude generated code from code coverage result in Team System Sending parameters to msbuild in TFS Find in SourceControl - Visual Studio 2008 How to get rid of multiple .vsmdi-files State diagram for Conchango work items A Conchango Scrum TFS Template introduction Conchango burndown chart is not working TFS, Add solution to Source Control and some trouble along the way TF 20017 - The area or iteration provided for field 'IterationPath' could not be found Doing SCRUM in TFS Tools for TFS - Team Foundation Server Builds with TFS 2008 - soon... Sandcastle - in build scripts TFS Widget Teamplain rocks A lot of Team System TFS useful links TFS Best practices TFS Build watcher - finally TeamSystem, MSBuild and ClickOnce Battle of the TFS build script TeamSystem Builds VSTS bug... or is it? MSBuild SOAPUi and MSBuild Update AppSettings with XmlUpdate in build scripts Working directory for Build Agents and building different branches MSTest and secondary references Not trigger new build on check-in - TFS Build version of ExclusionFilters XMLMassUpdate - how to keep environment in place with MSBuild Calling Sandcastle with response file TFS Build targets and properties - the official list The right way of calling MSTest in a TFS build script How to run MSTest with publish parameter as MSBuild Exec-task ReSharper crashes MSBuild, refactor and targets in other files How to fail a tfs-build on test failing Sending parameters to msbuild in TFS Sandcastle - in build scripts TeamSystem, MSBuild and ClickOnce Battle of the TFS build script TeamSystem Builds Life of a consultant - Fun Nerding away... Web Design WebDesign - a great introduction Free web templates LINQ Sprint Planner Helper – Session 18 Great introductions to Linq-To-SQL The data source '' only supports a single view named 'DefaultView' LINQ is a wonderful thing Linq Videos Marcus private - BrassBand - Euphonium New euphonium sales site C# Testing WebAPI with AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing and xUnit Collections xUnit - closing Selenium driver after ALL test in suite Nancy Fx - now you can read her too! ' I am telling you for the last time - Marcus style Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory Nancy.Testing - no hat, no shoes with Simple.Data Nancy.Testing - testing (razor) views Nancy.Testing - test-dialogues with Requests and Response Nancy.Testing - configure her boot...strapper System.InvalidOperationException No automation provider available MsTest and FluentAutomation SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–what is it? Simple.Data–the testing story Supported Step Exporter – watch your language Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi Vb.net considered harmful Trying Coding Dojo, Kata and Extreme OOP First stop for learning events, delegates and anonymous methods Simple but useful generic repository pattern Snippet for creating testmethod in C# Sprint Planner Helper – Session 3 Compress a string with zip Aspects and policy injection - clean up your code Managing dynamic controls in an ASP.NET page How to get equivalent proxy-classes to implement a shared interface Transactions in stored procedures with transaction scope How? What? He LIKES VB.NET? Convert C# to VB.NET and back again ASP.NET MVC KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration Kanbanboards IV–shaping stuff up Using Unity as dependency resolver in ASP.NET MVC 3 TDD and Scaffolding KanbanBoards part II–two step forward and one back The MVC song Scott Guthrie in Stockholm Testing ASP.NET MVC application with Session state Marcus trying JQuery ÖreDev day 4 – afternoon ÖreDev day 4 – Why your agile adoption fails with Dan North AspxPivotGrid – a mighty web control S#arp Architecture ASP.NET MVC presentations ASP.NET MVC released! ASP.NET MVC "The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter” ASP.NET MVC – Running transformation error solved ASP.NET MVC – Running transformation error Why DDD rocks – the marcusoft.net version What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization ASP.NET MVC Storefront Great Silverlight 2.0 Tutorial ASP.NET MVC - start WCF Changing endpoint from the command line when testing services with SOAPUi SOAPUi and MSBuild SOAPUi and testing WCF Services – how I made it work ÖreDev day 3 – afternoon Custom tool warning cannot import wsdl:portType WCF with handcrafted WSDL generated no FaultExceptions AddressFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher WCF Self-hosting and configuration WCF Config How to configure wsHttpBinding for no security Validating WCF-messages with WSDL WCF Data Contract Versioning Web Service Factory How to get equivalent proxy-classes to implement a shared interface WCF - wsdl configurations explained WCF, WSDL and tempuri.org WCF configuration or Do it yourself Naming service reference to get namespace-like behavior Error message "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Enterprise.ASPNetHelper" when deploying Debugging WCF Service - the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found WCF - introductions Marcus private - Web Design code-tag in Firefox Marcus private - SOA Great project started Tools - TFS - MSBuild Creating link to TFS Reports in build script Publish TFS testresult as HTML SOA Short and sweet introduction to RESTful services The value of an ubiquitous language Some great SOA – articles Validating WCF-messages with WSDL Web Service Factory What is SOA? What is SOAP-RPC? Naming service reference to get namespace-like behavior BrassBand - Fun In control III - trombonists Sweet brass bander VB.NET - SOA How to get equivalent proxy-classes to implement a shared interface BrassBand - SOA Presentations .NET - SOA - WCF WCF, WSDL and differences from web services Tools - Fun IPhone flute - waiting for euphonium Sweden in 3D Tools - WCF Cool WCF-utils Tools - LINQ Using LINQ for the first time, for real Marcus private - Scrum Full speed and free Agile - WCF Full speed and free Tools - MSBuild MSBuild sidekicks Life of a consultant - MSBuild Create textfile on the fly in build scripts Sprint Planner Helper Sprint Planner Helper – final Sprint Planner Helper – Session 26 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 25 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 24 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 22 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 21 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 19 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 18 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 17 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 16 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 14 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 13 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 11 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 10 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 9 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 8 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 7 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 6 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 5 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 3 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 2 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 1 Sprint Planner Helper - administration What to do now - Sprint Planner Helper Initialization ASP.NET MVC - Sprint Planner Helper UpdateModel, FormCollection and unit test Sprint Planner Helper – Session 23 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 20 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 15 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 12 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 4 DDD The value of an ubiquitous language ÖreDev day 4 – morning AutoMapping with FluentNHibernate Implementing Unit Of Work with NHibernate Parental leave reading DDD – what’s the deal? Sprint Planner Helper – final Sprint Planner Helper – Session 17 Sprint Planner Helper – Session 16 Why DDD rocks – the marcusoft.net version DDD – the coin drops for Marcus Agile - Sprint Planner Helper DDD – the coin drops for Marcus Tools - ASP.NET MVC Ruby on Rails – supercool demo ASP.NET MVC – completing the NerdDinner example ASP.NET MVC – The Nerd Dinner example Loads of ASP.NET MVC tips Marcus private - BrassBand - Fun What I am watching In control IV – Håkan Björkman Marcus private - Sprint Planner Helper Sprint Planner Helper - Vaccation halt BDD Formulation - the crucial (often missed) step of BDD Review: Cucumber for Java Marcus Node Bits - supertest is a nice way to test an api' Marcus Node Bits - Should is a nice way to do asserts Marcus Node Bits - mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Communication and rotting specifications ' Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip - push HOW down Pickles - generate SpecFlow documentation from MsBuild and PowerShell Have presentations - will travel Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow Great Visual Studio integration - another of the many reasons to upgrade to SpecFlow 1.9 What BDD is all about What i learned from 'From User stories to Acceptance tests' with Gojko Adzic BDD and technical scenarios SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–how to use it Executable specification - the whole stack or not BDD on .NET Framework and where I learned about it Theory of constraints and Specification by example part II Theory of constraints and Specification by example Clean up your steps–use page objects in SpecFlow step definitions Two types in SpecFlow; ScenarioContext and FeatureContext KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration Specification by example with SpecLog–some initial thoughts Kanbanboards V–creating new boards Customize your SpecFlow templates and more Kanbanboards IV–shaping stuff up Kanbanboards III–putting on the web KanbanBoards part II–two step forward and one back Specification by example with SpecFlow in TFS and the question of traceability Managing BDD features in our project (using TFS) Know where you step–generate a step definition report with SpecFlow SpecFlow.exe and MsTest Should & Substitute–two new great friends How to use different app.config for each developer A story on doing outside-in development with SpecFlow WhiteStepHelper – a small step toward smaller steps A story on specification by example in two projects Using ATDD in conversion project BDD with SpecFlow – some thoughts after a workshop at Elevate SpecFlow BDD .NET-style ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD? Skillsmatter – so much to watch, so little time ÖreDev day 5 – afternoon ÖreDev day 5 – keynote and morning' Why do TDD? More great stuff on BDD Great introduction to BDD NHibernate - ASP.NET MVC Sharp Architecture presentations Tools - DDD DDD and Naked Objects ÖreDev OreDev 2011 - day 3 OreDev 2011 - day 2 OreDev 2011 - day 1 Inbox zero ÖreDev day 5 – keynote and morning' ÖreDev day 4 – afternoon ÖreDev day 4 – Why your agile adoption fails with Dan North ÖreDev day 4 – morning ÖreDev day 3 – afternoon ÖreDev day 3 – morning sessions ÖreDev day 2 – NHibernate in practice' ÖreDev Day 1 - Accomplishing more by doing less ÖreDev - ASP.NET MVC ÖreDev day 5 – afternoon ÖreDev Day 2 - ASP.NET MVC with Scott Allen .NET - Web Design Marcus trying JQuery .NET - ASP.NET MVC Kanbanboards V–creating new boards Kanbanboards III–putting on the web Integrationtests for ASP.NET MVC applications Kanban - Scrum Is Scrum a –ism that doesn’t work for real? Status of workitems – where to keep it Kanban example by Henrik Kniberg Kanban Some questions about estimation and plannning How do I kanbanize my 300 items backlog - a response Prioritizing and sequencing are not the same things Reflection on a daily retrospectives The consequences of prioritizing KanbanStats - an average improvement KanbanStats VI: Queue length KanbanStats V: Single numbers KanbanStats IV: Where is time spent? KanbanStats III: throughput KanbanStats II: filter the process chart KanbanStats: Simplify process stats - get started A story about dentists... busy dentists Board visualisation tips Kanban - cementing the flow? 3 basic (priorization) assumptions Playing with names What should I pick? Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit What are you going do when it's really important, then? Thinking in flow - some recent thoughts Priority 0 - we meet again A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency Futurespective - put the past in front of you Some thoughts on organizing a team of developers Flow and dependencies Values and living them Some thoughts on backlogs Respecting slack time Viral Change and some thoughts about tools Review of A seat at the table Limiting WIP and some rules of thumb Lean/flow simulation experiments A post on the post on queue length The kanban blessing My obsession with teams What I learned coaching a car dealership on stage Teams are immutable structures Deploy and release From push to pull - the essence of kanban Flow in the F1-pit - thoughts on an inspiring video Reading the Scrum Guide Comments on common board practices - Walk the board from right to left Some kanban Q & A Feb 2017 Comments on common board practices - Focus on the work - not the workers Comments on common board practices - It’s not a kanban board if you don’t have a WIP limit Comments on common board practices - Colours speaks volumes. Use colours wisely Comments on common board practices - Done? There is no Done Comments on common board practices - Todo/Doing/Done is not your process Comments on common board practices - blocked should not be a column Some useful practices for flow oriented standup meetings Bring out the good Design our work The best product owner I ever met Principles over (best) practices Some reflections after seeing mob programming in action The Bungsu Story - some progress Backlog and features Jidoka - an old Toyota practice makes an guest appearance A scary thought experiment Solving the underpants gnomes pitfall Some thoughts after Lean Kanban North America 2016 Requirements are not problem/opportunity descriptions Developer failure Flow or value - what is it, Marcus?! Our fear of forgetting important things Some simple changes for flow that made a world of a difference Flow manager - is that me? Frequent releases and no urge to finish What are you optimized for then? Thoughts after a SAFe course The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated! Electronic process management tools - proceed with care Some kanban questions from a keen learner, and my answers Using the scientific method on our board The metric / visualization pirate 'rules' How trust, kanban and a little structure changed a life today Progress indicators, estimates and plans QA: How big is a work item? ca 15 minutes on Kanban Stuff I said coaching Order points, value, flow and waste What I've learned from the first 30% of Reinventing Organizations All the great teams How we created the need for an emergency lane Emergency lanes - some tips Things I say often: NO! This is how you tear off a post-it Things I say often: This is your board - change it How would you measure that? Stop starting - start finishing, or else... Inspections welcome A good person and a bad system - my take ' How I prepare and create presentations Its just an experiment - experiments in practice The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting... Effective revisited Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean? cc all the things Some thoughts about waste and waste reduction The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope How to make a empty diagram in Excel ...and then it moved - the greatest feeling in the world! Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad? If you build it - things will improve; turning visualizations to knowledge Ask a simpler question - real data speaks louder Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment The “talk about later”-list Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think “Waiting” should be a note and not a column Looking for better Team Yayasan week 5 Redoing Todo Do you think Kanban can help us? Team Yayasan week 4 - Throughput and lead times Team Yayasan week 3 - Understanding the problem and sloppy limits Team Yayasan week 2 - Transparency, culture and lower WIP Team Yayasan - getting started I am telling you for the last time - Marcus style Low WIP, hairdressers and Lean operation strategy What if ... mob programming? Limit WIP doesn't mean doing less The I am not allowed to do columns like that-problem Have presentations - will travel You say 'continuous delivery', I say 'limit WIP' Simple where-do-we-spend-our-time visualisation Working to the Cake-limit Summer sprints - a time to learn I’m writing a book on Kanban! Common Kanban mistakes Not limiting WIP Some thoughts on KPI’s in agile organizations Some common Kanban questions–my suggestions OreDev 2011 - day 3 Kanban-inzg the Avega Group Office–reflections Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–getting the show on the road Kanban-inizing the Avega Group office–setting the stage Theory of constraints and Specification by example part II Theory of constraints and Specification by example CQRS–another love story The power of Visualization used in my current project Specification by example – the missing link? Practical Kanban – some Kanban boards in practices Red Beads and Limited WIP Society Life of a consultant - ASP.NET MVC Deploying ASP.NET MVC on IIS6 .NET - TFS Branching Guide for Team Foundation Server 2010 .NET - NHibernate - ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC, StructureMap and … TDD? .NET - MSBuild Calling SOAPUi Testscript from MSBuild BDD - DDD Specification by example – the missing link? crum What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment Working to the Cake-limit Specification by example – the missing link? MSBuild - WCF Configure WCF in IIS for anonymous access VB.NET - BDD Using BDD with SpecFlow, WPF and White SpecFlow I am telling you for the last time - Marcus style Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip - push HOW down Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory Pickles - generate SpecFlow documentation from MsBuild and PowerShell Have presentations - will travel Getting Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer to work with NUnit,xUnit and SpecFlow Great Visual Studio integration - another of the many reasons to upgrade to SpecFlow 1.9 Find the control–a way to stabilize UI automation… a bit SpecFlow, page objects and FluentAutomation Creating a tools only NuGet package SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–how to use it SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–what is it? Clean up your steps–use page objects in SpecFlow step definitions Two types in SpecFlow; ScenarioContext and FeatureContext SpecFlow presentation at Sweden Progressive .NET Error “The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string” with SQL Compact Edition In SpecFlow the test runner is just glue Kanbanboards V–creating new boards Customize your SpecFlow templates and more Kanbanboards III–putting on the web Specification by example with SpecFlow in TFS and the question of traceability Managing BDD features in our project (using TFS) Know where you step–generate a step definition report with SpecFlow SpecFlow.exe and MsTest App.config for SpecFlow using MsTest Using tags in SpecFlow features A story on doing outside-in development with SpecFlow Supported Step Exporter – watch your language WhiteStepHelper – a small step toward smaller steps KanbanBoards Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings KanbanBoards VI–OpenId Integration Kanbanboards V–creating new boards Kanbanboards IV–shaping stuff up Kanbanboards III–putting on the web KanbanBoards part II–two step forward and one back Developing in .Net–a new era has begun MobProgramming - BDD CQRS–another love story .NET - ÖreDev CQRS–another love story Agile - CQRS CQRS–another love story Specification by example Formulation - the crucial (often missed) step of BDD Review: Cucumber for Java How would you measure that? My second book is out ... kinda Some thoughts I got after talking with Woody Zuil I am telling you for the last time - Marcus style Communication and rotting specifications ' Context injection of driver object in SpecFlow Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip - push HOW down Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory Pickles - generate SpecFlow documentation from MsBuild and PowerShell What i learned from 'From User stories to Acceptance tests' with Gojko Adzic SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–maxing out with Simple.Data SpecFlow.Assist.Dynamic–how to use it Executable specification - the whole stack or not Who writes the specification, now again? BDD - Specification by example Should I add bugs-scenarios in my specification? Tools - Specification by example Specification by example and Model based testing ContinuousDelivery ...and then it moved - the greatest feeling in the world! KoaJs Making the make file test, push and all that KoaJs - the fast route between idea and production Marcus Node Bits - Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)' What if ... mob programming? Get MongoDB running on AppHarbour - it's an AppSetting thing AppHarbor, Nancy and the Could not load file or assembly 'Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProviders' error Code Freeze, Recompile and Code generations - stuff thats not that scary with CD Life of a consultant - Specification by example TDD for kids Agile - ContinuousDelivery Impact Mapping - great book, great tool Lean Building teams - where our training starts Remote work, transparency, and feedback How we start with trust and vulnerable in our developer training How do you get so much done? Metrics on 'well-defined' projects - and what I learned about uncertainty Why the retrospective prime directive is paramount Prioritizing and sequencing are not the same things When was Lars happy? 3 mindset shifts for agile transformations How we agile - principle-led & context-dependent Autonomous does not mean isolated Reflection on a daily retrospectives The consequences of prioritizing KanbanStats - an average improvement The Kondo software quality index Scaling agile - up or out Principles and practices, guilds and cross-functional teams Tags, markers and behaviour it drives on the board The things I (we) worry about in vain KanbanStats VI: Queue length KanbanStats V: Single numbers KanbanStats IV: Where is time spent? KanbanStats III: throughput KanbanStats II: filter the process chart KanbanStats: Simplify process stats - get started A story about dentists... busy dentists Board visualisation tips Kanban - cementing the flow? 3 basic (priorization) assumptions Playing with names What should I pick? Reflections after Agile Greece Some reflections after a few days as a musician What I learned when installing 33 developer computers in 5 hours Integrate JIRA search results in Google Sheets for fun and profit What are you going do when it's really important, then? Thinking in flow - some recent thoughts Priority 0 - we meet again A simple diagram and some conversations on flow efficiency My top 10 books Futurespective - put the past in front of you Some thoughts on organizing a team of developers Flow and dependencies Values and living them Some thoughts on backlogs Respecting slack time Viral Change and some thoughts about tools Review of A seat at the table Limiting WIP and some rules of thumb Lean/flow simulation experiments A post on the post on queue length Don't skip hack days - that silly habit is what you are No - waterfall is not sometimes correct. It is always wrong Report writing - using impact maps, Stephen Covey and increments The kanban blessing When we used user story mapping to plan our move Two stories I often tell on WIP as a process improvement tool My obsession with teams What I learned coaching a car dealership on stage Teams are immutable structures Deploy and release Values to guide us From push to pull - the essence of kanban Flow in the F1-pit - thoughts on an inspiring video Changing the die - that can't go faster What does technical debt feel like? Respecting your vacation - how I ended up with 0 emails in my inbox after 4 weeks vacation Coaching when help is not wanted or important Impacts or backlogs A walking retrospective that only turns up the good The nervous stats checker oscillating syndrome Reading the Scrum Guide Repost - The time when we did Lean backwards Some kanban Q & A Feb 2017 An idea for visualising scope creep Some roles I take on - and what they are Some thoughts after running the marshmallow challenge with kids 3 success factors for a big room planning Here people are saying kind things about each others Some useful practices for flow oriented standup meetings Bring out the good Design our work Reflections on TankWars or when 2 minutes was slow The best product owner I ever met Who is this important for? Big room planning - a workaround that can be useful Move the information to the authority considered harmful Principles over (best) practices No heroics and awesome people Toyota Kata and the 'We can't do that here'-fallacy It's all perspective - why haven't I seen that before? Lead like you lead volunteers Some reflections after seeing mob programming in action The Bungsu Story - some progress Backlog and features Jidoka - an old Toyota practice makes an guest appearance A scary thought experiment Solving the underpants gnomes pitfall Some thoughts after Lean Kanban North America 2016 Requirements are not problem/opportunity descriptions Developer failure Flow or value - what is it, Marcus?! Our fear of forgetting important things Some simple changes for flow that made a world of a difference Flow manager - is that me? Frequent releases and no urge to finish What are you optimized for then? Thoughts after a SAFe course The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated! We don't know what will work - a story from last week Electronic process management tools - proceed with care S, M, L estimate should not start with a date span The hidden agenda of agile.... An exercise from 5 dysfunctions of a team What is important, really? My day off ... what does that say about me Indonesia, Agile, Kanban, Lean - its a new book What if only small works? Prioritization - some thoughts and tools Barrier troops Using the scientific method on our board Review: #NoEstimates - the book The metric / visualization pirate 'rules' The forced swing in my garden... and coaching The Lars-principle Review: Nature by Ron Jeffries Indicators; leading, trailing - short or long What can you do for us then? Experiment - don't change Wash your hands - make your hands clean Progress indicators, estimates and plans ca 10 minutes on effective meetings ca 10 minutes on Root Cause Analysis Only help those that want help ca 15 minutes on Kanban ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping ca 15 minutes on strategic plans ca 10 minutes on Vision statements ca 10 minutes on Mission statements New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it McDonalds - a tool to explain flow 50 quick ideas to improve your tests - a review YOW West 2015 - some thoughts Meta is not the most important thing Waste and why I rather talk about something else Stuff I said coaching Order points, value, flow and waste What I've learned from the first 30% of Reinventing Organizations Why don't they change: what if I could just snap my fingers? Why don't they change: What would make me behave like that? Please question the process Motivating in a world without WHY What the traffic in Jakarta taught me about slack Open letter: Management tips to Dr Lillian A world without WHY Why I built page-logger... and how it made me money What if money was not an issue? All the great teams How far have we come? Things I say often: I don't care about efficiency Things I say often: I run on feedback Things I say often: I'm into leadership - not management Make it smaller - some practical experiences Things I say often: Improving means changing Things I say often: Why? Things I say often: This is your board - change it New series: 'Things I say often' Ferguson never touched the ball What is The Goal? How would you measure that? What I've learned from 'How to measure anything' Data you can't do anything about - what's the use? Stop starting - start finishing, or else... Always ask kenapa Inspections welcome Its just an experiment - experiments in practice Effective revisited Some thoughts about waste and waste reduction My second book is out ... kinda Ugly clothing, symbols and values Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad? If you build it - things will improve; turning visualizations to knowledge Ask a simpler question - real data speaks louder Accountability, authority, trust, and all those things Luck has nothing to do with it What I've should done - my Jerk-store moment Some thoughts I got after talking with Woody Zuil Simple = Good. Complex = Bad. But what does it mean? Delegation and my jedi mind trick The “talk about later”-list Waiting is bad for you… and it’s worse than you think Marcus Node Bits - Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)' Looking for better Team Yayasan week 5 Redoing Todo Do you think Kanban can help us? Team Yayasan week 4 - Throughput and lead times Team Yayasan week 3 - Understanding the problem and sloppy limits Team Yayasan week 2 - Transparency, culture and lower WIP Team Yayasan - getting started Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals Repost - Do we dare to be data-driven What do you want to give customers; bad or good news? What I am talking about -No - I dont mean work faster What I am talking about - Yes - Im talking about changing Please fail... but do it fast Repost - Weighted index – a simple, powerful prioritization tool Repost - Some tools for improved focus, improve teamwork and faster delivery Repost - Mob programming – full team, full throttle Low WIP, hairdressers and Lean operation strategy What if ... mob programming? MVP is not another word for iterations - it's for learning Let's do something instead! Are you coding for change or stability - the followup post Are you coding for change or for stability? Limit WIP doesn't mean doing less Daily Sync for five teams - and get something out of it Between the chairs some thoughts on backlogs and things outside them How to run a LeanCoffee discussion Team marketplace - how we splitted a big 40 person team into 5 small in 2 hours On constraints Have presentations - will travel Autonomy in action - school kids Nancy Nancy Fx - now you can read her too! ' A session on Open source software at Microsoft Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip - push HOW down Get MongoDB running on AppHarbour - it's an AppSetting thing Nancy.Testing - executable specifications through the full stack, in memory Nancy.Testing - no hat, no shoes with Simple.Data Nancy.Testing - testing (razor) views Nancy.Testing - test-dialogues with Requests and Response Nancy.Testing - configure her boot...strapper Nancy.Testing - a closer look through her testability Test My second book is out ... kinda Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip - push HOW down Nancy.Testing - a closer look through her testability Tools - Lean The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting... The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope Lean UX with effect map - from HeltSonika Suggested visualization for the SÖS Children Emergency Marcus private - Nancy AppHarbor, Nancy and the Could not load file or assembly 'Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProviders' error Marcus private - Lean Embrace uncertainty - the family version You control the disappointment dial - use it! Moving to Indonesia Indonesia The Bungsu Story - some progress The Brickell Key Award - I am nominated! 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Marcus Node Bits - Ok then, Moogose is pretty sweet Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals Marcus Node Bits - supertest is a nice way to test an api' Marcus Node Bits - Express is best without generators Marcus Node Bits - Should is a nice way to do asserts Marcus Node Bits - mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Marcus Node Bits - Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them Marcus Node Bits - Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Marcus Node Bits - Package.json is a mighty tool Marcus Node Bits - npm is not only for getting packages Marcus Node Bits - Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all Marcus Node Bits - Writing stuff down is great to remember it Javascript Bash scripting to check the status of 100 repositories Scraping functionally - to save my inheritance Trying out test commit or revert What I learned when installing 33 developer computers in 5 hours Testing a Koa application with supertest using async/await Refactoring a Koa app (part V) - refactoring the root app Refactoring a Koa app (part IV) - update the production code Refactoring a Koa app (part III) - async tests Refactoring a Koa app (part II) - refactoring the tests Refactoring a Koa app - or how I learned a lot about modern JavaScript while refactoring an old app CodeBetter.com posts reposted Reflections on TankWars or when 2 minutes was slow Delayed responses with AWS Lambda and Claudia (Pingu part II) Building a Slack command with Claudia bot builder Claudia 1.2 - some updates that made me want to write a post Testing with Claudia ClaudiaJs and console.log AWS Lambda/Claudia part II - Storing stuff Riot.js: anatomy of a tag New PluralSight course: npm as a build tool EADDRINUSE when watching tests with mocha and supertest Requiring the os - runtime-js npm scripting: git, version and deploy npm scripting: configs and arguments... and some more tricks Pre and Post hooks for npm scripting Installing CasperJs - a journey of pain Meteor and the 'Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token Y' error New PluralSight Course: io.js ... (or is it?) How to get Google Analytics to work for your Single Page Application Supertest: Verify database after request Splitting a Koa app into parts and putting it together again Supertest: Things I've learned - part I Koa Js and the power of mounting package.json: engines & engineStrict - and how to use them Why I built page-logger... and how it made me money CoffeeScript - what I've should have done Get started writing NodeJs with CoffeeScript - not a piece of cake Config handling in Node and Heroku - with secrets Koa and the 'ReferenceError: Promise is not defined.' Todo Add tests ... KoaJs Making the make file test, push and all that KoaJs - the fast route between idea and production Screencast - What is yield and generators?' Screencast - Installing Koa Js - a tutorial through failures Screencast on Getting started with Koa Js Repost - Beyond Callbacks or How Koa helps me Code Better MongoDb and the "10309 Unable to create/open lock file" on Ubuntu Marcus Node Bits - Basic Authentication with Koa Marcus Node Bits - Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)' KoaJs and the SyntaxError Unexpected identifier error - or that time when I understood generators Marcus Node Bits - Let us flex Koa Js, shall we? Marcus Node Bits - Let us talk about yield and generators, shall we? Marcus Node Bits - Let us talk about Koa for a while, shall we? Setting up a complete Node development machine. From scratch. For free Javascript callbacks - cannot live with them cannot live without them... or can you? Marcus Node Bits - Ok then, Moogose is pretty sweet Marcus Node Bits - supertest is a nice way to test an api' Marcus Node Bits - Express is best without generators Marcus Node Bits - monk is an easy way to access MongoDb Marcus Node Bits - Should is a nice way to do asserts Marcus Node Bits - mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Marcus Node Bits - Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them Marcus Node Bits - Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Marcus Node Bits - Package.json is a mighty tool Marcus Node Bits - npm is not only for getting packages Marcus Node Bits - Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all Marcus Node Bits - Writing stuff down is great to remember it Node Scraping functionally - to save my inheritance Make a copy of GitHub repo - the script way What I learned when installing 33 developer computers in 5 hours Delayed responses with AWS Lambda and Claudia (Pingu part II) Building a Slack command with Claudia bot builder Testing with Claudia AWS Lambda/Claudia part II - Storing stuff First AWS Lambda steps - using ClaudiaJs New PluralSight course: npm as a build tool EADDRINUSE when watching tests with mocha and supertest npm scripting: git, version and deploy npm scripting: configs and arguments... and some more tricks Pre and Post hooks for npm scripting Supertest: Verify database after request Splitting a Koa app into parts and putting it together again Supertest: Things I've learned - part I Koa Js and the power of mounting Why I built page-logger... and how it made me money CoffeeScript - what I've should have done Get started writing NodeJs with CoffeeScript - not a piece of cake Config handling in Node and Heroku - with secrets KoaJs Making the make file test, push and all that Screencast - Installing Koa Js - a tutorial through failures Repost - Beyond Callbacks or How Koa helps me Code Better MongoDb and the "10309 Unable to create/open lock file" on Ubuntu Marcus Node Bits - Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)' Marcus Node Bits - Let us flex Koa Js, shall we? Marcus Node Bits - Let us talk about yield and generators, shall we? Marcus Node Bits - Let us talk about Koa for a while, shall we? Setting up a complete Node development machine. From scratch. For free Marcus Node Bits - supertest is a nice way to test an api' Marcus Node Bits - monk is an easy way to access MongoDb Impact mapping ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it Impact Mapping - now helping Indonesian Hospitals Team Yayasan Do something together - what Indonesians taught me, part I Team Yayasan week 5 Redoing Todo Team Yayasan week 4 - Throughput and lead times Team Yayasan week 3 - Understanding the problem and sloppy limits Team Yayasan week 2 - Transparency, culture and lower WIP Team Yayasan - getting started Koa Testing a Koa application with supertest using async/await Refactoring a Koa app (part V) - refactoring the root app Refactoring a Koa app (part IV) - update the production code Refactoring a Koa app (part III) - async tests Refactoring a Koa app (part II) - refactoring the tests Refactoring a Koa app - or how I learned a lot about modern JavaScript while refactoring an old app CodeBetter.com posts reposted EADDRINUSE when watching tests with mocha and supertest Requiring the os - runtime-js Supertest: Verify database after request Splitting a Koa app into parts and putting it together again Supertest: Things I've learned - part I Koa Js and the power of mounting Why I built page-logger... and how it made me money Koa and the 'ReferenceError: Promise is not defined.' KoaJs Making the make file test, push and all that Screencast - What is yield and generators?' Screencast - Installing Koa Js - a tutorial through failures Repost - Beyond Callbacks or How Koa helps me Code Better Marcus Node Bits - Basic Authentication with Koa Marcus Node Bits - Deploying to Heroku (and MongoHq)' KoaJs and the SyntaxError Unexpected identifier error - or that time when I understood generators Marcus Node Bits - Let us flex Koa Js, shall we? Marcus Node Bits - Let us talk about yield and generators, shall we? Marcus Node Bits - Let us talk about Koa for a while, shall we? BrassBand - Lean Aligning our sights - what Indonesians taught me, part I Team Yayasan - Lean No... this is how I think ' Tools - Team Yayasan - Lean “Waiting” should be a note and not a column Tools - Koa Screencast on Getting started with Koa Js Marcus private - Lean Move the authority to the information, and not the other way around Agile- Salvation Army Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean? Move the authority to the information, and not the other way around Koa - Lean KoaJs - the fast route between idea and production Leadership My screensavers: Kindness is better How we agile - principle-led & context-dependent Autonomous does not mean isolated No heroics and awesome people Lead like you lead volunteers How trust, kanban and a little structure changed a life today Changes - reasons or the opposite ca 10 minutes on effective meetings ca 10 minutes on Root Cause Analysis ca 15 minutes on Kanban ca 15 minutes on Impact mapping ca 15 minutes on strategic plans ca 10 minutes on Vision statements ca 10 minutes on Mission statements New series: Marcus on mission, vision and strategy... and doing it It's just context - a story about my ignorance No #No - more #Less Meta is not the most important thing What I've learned from the first 30% of Reinventing Organizations Why don't they change: what if I could just snap my fingers? 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Things I say often: This is your board - change it New series: 'Things I say often' Claudia Delayed responses with AWS Lambda and Claudia (Pingu part II) Building a Slack command with Claudia bot builder Claudia 1.2 - some updates that made me want to write a post Testing with Claudia ClaudiaJs and console.log AWS Lambda/Claudia part II - Storing stuff First AWS Lambda steps - using ClaudiaJs Programming Using Google Drive & Slide API as report template engine Using ChatGPT professionally for the first time 'Inf' Finding a bug - how an old guy thinks How I tackled a hard problem in a new language Learning about Python list comprehensions Deploying. NET 6 WebAPI using ARM Template xUnit - closing Selenium driver after ALL test in suite Writing a Selenium test using .NET core and Visual Studio Code When I learned a safety lesson - and did a little bit better Next.JS Error: No router instance found Uploading pictures to Firebase in React Native Bash scripting to check the status of 100 repositories Experience report: first week of 2 x 5 mobs going remote Listing and cloning private GitHub repos - some fun with bash and curl getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory How we start with trust and vulnerable in our developer training Applied learning - things noticed Fun with scripting - running a test suite against 30 different solutions Scraping functionally - to save my inheritance Trying out test commit or revert Make a copy of GitHub repo - the script way Bash script to add file(s) to all repositories in an organisation Testing a Koa application with supertest using async/await Refactoring a Koa app (part V) - refactoring the root app Refactoring a Koa app (part IV) - update the production code Refactoring a Koa app (part III) - async tests Refactoring a Koa app (part II) - refactoring the tests Refactoring a Koa app - or how I learned a lot about modern JavaScript while refactoring an old app TDD for 9 year olds - an experiment in teaching my sons class Counting words Writing a script to extract pictures from Word documents What does technical debt feel like? 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AppHarbor, Nancy and the Could not load file or assembly 'Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProviders' error
AppHarbor, Nancy and the Could not load file or assembly 'Nancy.ViewEngines.Razor.BuildProviders' error
