tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20029965964496137152012-04-29T05:35:10.685-07:00<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MikhailDikov"><img border="0" src="http://home.earthlink.net/~mdikov/images/feed16.png"/></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;In a flat world every byte of knowledge counts...Mikhail Dikovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13980715720338179589noreply@blogger.comBlogger9412537.769528-122.259378tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2002996596449613715.post-81841163973914806412010-11-20T01:30:00.001-08:002010-11-21T21:09:49.208-08:00

Several months ago our team started the transition to Agile. One of the top topics of the transition is user stories. How are stories created? How do they change in the process of planning and implementation? How to split them and how do they compare to other planning tools? This slide deck is from a workshop I prepared and our team did. I addressed different aspects of user stories in Agile.

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A second SharePoint Saturday Event in California took place in LA last Saturday at the Hilton LAX. The organizing committee chair Karuana Gatimu and co-chair Christian Buckley, once again put a great community conference. Owen Allen did a very insightful keynote on the transition of SharePoint to a business management platform. Needless to say I loved to hear him talk about ACM and CM utilizing

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Another great SharePoint Saturday Event  in San Ramon. The organizers Christian Buckley, Michael Noel, the sponsors, and the volunteers did an excellent job in providing a top notch facilities and amenities for the event. Global 360 was a gold sponsor of the event. Lots of great sessions on SharePoint virtualization, search, governance and other hot SharePoint topics. I was really thrilled to do

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Making short iterations work is hard. First the team has to find the right amount of work and commit, only to be confronted with reality and find out that the estimates are not what they meant them to be. In the first days of the iteration (T-8) the top priority stories get tackled, and somewhere in the middle of the iteration (T-5) the team has a pretty good feel, of which stories have a good

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Are you new to SharePoint, and want to find out more? Is your company already using the technology, but you’d like to expand your knowledge with best practices? Do you have specific business or technical questions, and want to take advantage of this opportunity to speak with the experts? SharePoint Saturday East Bay is an educational, informative and always FREE day filled with sessions from

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A crucial part of driving and sustaining a change towards better adoption of Agile is the opportunity to celebrate success – small wins, frequently. Winning teams have clear expectations, understandable context and the commitment to get the work done-done. Driving point in declaring small wins after each iteration is setting the scope of the iteration close to the actual capacity of the team. If

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We've all seen sessions where the power of SIlverlight is demonstrated with "Hello World!" apps and smily faces. We've also seen sessions on SharePoint 2010 that outline how to use the Client OM, but stop short when it comes to putting the complete solution into perspective. Is this enough to build well researched and designed, innovative solutions?I am really thrilled to join as a speaker and

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So you have a layouts page you used in your SharePoint 2007 product and you want to use it in SharePoint 2010. The functionality did not change much, however when you open the page it looks ugly and it uses an older SharePoint 2007 master page. What can I do to fix this, so that I have one code base that covers both platforms? One option is to dynamically change the master page on the PreInit

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In order to install a web application running only in 32-bit mode, I had to change the default IIS application pool settings to allow 32-bit applications. This worked fine for my application, however later I installed SharePoint 2010 on the same machine and when I opened the Central Administration I got the wonderful: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. No IIS logs, no ULS logs, not

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When you create a new external content type for security purposes SharePoint 2010 will not assign any permissions. The first thing people try to do is to create an external list using the external data source and try to open it. The following error occurs: Access denied by Business Data Connectivity. The first thing I tried to do is check permissions for the current user to the database and

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Living in some of the most culturally diverse and tolerant places in the US and in the world has thought me a lot about cultural tolerance, however I realize that this was a long learning process and as a kid growing in the capital of Bulgaria I simply was not exposed to the issue of cultural or ethnical diversity in the same way an open modern society does. I recall how only couple of years

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Sometimes people ask me: Why can’t you just answer with yes or no? While yes/no answers are perfect in some occasions I find that they are the absolute killer of collaborative work. A yes/no answers do not start a discussion they close it. While many developers think that a short yes/no answer makes them look more responsible and valuable I tend to disagree. What I usually want to understand is

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I recall the first time I saw the ribbon in MS office. I loved it then and I love it now. The live preview felt really nice and many frequently used features sprung out to the forefront. In the last couple of days I had another look at the use of the ribbon in SharePoint 2010 and after running some scenarios around process personas in my mind I just don’t see how the ribbon is good for the hands

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Something noteworthy happened today in the twittersphere. Two analysts from Gartner and Forester had a quick and very telling exchange about the state of BPM innovation.       Elise Olding, Gartner asked: Q:   Connie Moore, Forester responded: A:  Coming from these two

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    Charlie put out his hand and touched the screen, and suddenly, miraculously, the bar of chocolate came away in his fingers. He was so surprised he nearly dropped it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl   Every time a business finds a way to extend the reach of the consumer experience (which

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After the feedback received from the webinar in December (see previous post). Global 360 is moving away from the slide deck and providing what our audience wanted most – a live demo of the our products working with SharePoint. No frills, no smoking mirrors. Interested in seeing how you can leverage Global 360 and SharePoint to create a process platform?  Want to see first-hand how you can

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SharePoint is a proven platform for website creation, document sharing and collaboration. But, what about process management? Is SharePoint the right platform to automate and improve the processes that run your business? Two weeks ago Terry Schurter, Director of Product Strategy at Global 360 and I talked about on how to leverage SharePoint as a strategic process platform using Global 360’s

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Many novices and experienced SharePoint developers have been using the technique of hosting a UserControl in a web part. Traditionally beginners like it because it provides design surface similar to ASP.NET and allows them to be productive without learning all details of how custom controls work. ASP.NET developers entering the SharePoint world find it very convenient to reuse existing component

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  It has been a busy month getting ready for the SPC in Las Vegas. I am really proud that this time I am not going to be not only a visitor of the show, but take part of presenting what we at Global360 have been working on in the last months. We’ve been working hard on improving the integration of Process360 with SharePoint and what better opportunity to show off our work than SPC. I think we’

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We’ve been working on a lot of things that are starting to surface the marketplace in the last couple of months. If you are interested to follow the latest developments from the leading pure play BPM vendor tune in to: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Global360IncBPM Facebook: Click http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global360-Inc/106369541359?ref=nf YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/

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Just saw the videos for project Natal (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/) a new revolutionary video camera based controller for new and existing Xbox consoles. It is really great that to see that there is some competition in the new generation of console games. Even though Wii is still the true leader in this category it is refreshing to see that Microsoft will offer a comparable and

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In the last week or two in SharePoint land there were some interesting announcements and changes. The first on my list is the availability of Office Designer for free. While this product is not a spoon for everybody's mouth, it certainly makes it easier for a wider developer community to try out and use it and most importantly you can be productive in short time. This is great for many who are

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Take the survey posted by Todd Bleeker of Mindsharp here: Preferred SharePoint Development Tool. With no surprise for me with 44% at the time of writing this, the winner is WSPBuilder by Carsten Keutmann. What is your favorite?

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Isn't it great to be a "January" MVP? You always get the news for the award first thing in the morning of January 1st. Perfectly in time for new year's resolution. I am pleased to announce that I was awarded the MVP Award for a second consecutive year. This is a great honor and validation of my work for the developer community. However the most important aspect of the MVP award for me is that

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It is a popular technique to store resources, such as CSS, XSLT, JavaScript and HTML files, in resources files embedded in an assembly. This approach makes solutions more self contained and makes localization easier using satellite assemblies. The processing of the resources is usually handled by a specific HTTP handler. Many times these resources are rather static and there is no need to reload

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