- July 10, 2017
- By Ken Adams
How to setup and view dependencies between work items in VSTS. Focuses on Feature work items, but is also applicable to any work item type in VSTS.
Will Apple announce new hardware at WWDC 17 ? Surprise 🙂
- June 5, 2017
- By Ken Adams
- Commentary

- Apple
- May 22, 2017
- By Ken Adams
Training courseware that I developed and conducted training in 2016 and 2017 for Jive Software, a wiki and collaboration platform.
- April 3, 2017
- By Ken Adams
Everything below the top level work item needs a parent for the backlog structure to work correctly. So as you create new work items, everyone should keep an eye on that. ScrumMasters should facilitate their teams backlog work and monitor their Backlogs for data quality problems like these.
- March 7, 2017
- By Ken Adams
Documents how to track blockers in VSTS with the configuration of Blocker color coding configured on Board team views.
- March 2, 2017
- By Ken Adams
Some info on the VSTS Work Item Visualization extension, providing some quick tips and links to learn more. This VSTS extension allows you to visualize relationships between work items from within the work item form.
- February 6, 2017
- By Ken Adams
Tips on how to conduct a Sprint Review for internal use by Scrum teams.
- January 5, 2017
- By Ken Adams
Requirements of a Sprint Plan & tips to make it easier and more effective to do Sprint Planning.
- December 21, 2016
- By Ken Adams
Documents the VSTS Product Backlog Hierarchy used for sophisticated products and portfolios of products, and how you can use the levels of the hierarchy and the work item types.
- December 10, 2016
- By Ken Adams
Lists requirements for Scrum teams before starting a Sprint, and before a new Scrum team starts their first Sprint.
- November 2, 2016
- By Ken Adams
Documents some techniques you can use to estimating in Story Points using Affinity Estimating.
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