In many organizations releasing a new version of a product is a hassle. Many actions and people are required to get this new version online. By using the continuous deployment techniques you can automate this entire flow. In this blog post I will show how I organize the continuous deployment of my…
Gathering feedback on your new idea is very important to shape your product. During the development of your product, you probably encounter problems or have the need to validate a concept. By creating prototypes you can validate this yourself or even by a potential customer. But can these prototypes be used…
When a reference image is up to date with the latest Windows updates, the deployment time will decrease tremendously. Trond Eirik Haavarstein has written an excellent blog post on how to create a reference image with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). During my deployment in a VMware environment, I encountered the following error:…
We live in a fast-paced world nowadays. Uncertainty about even the near future seems to have become the norm. In order for companies to survive in the long run they need to respond to the continuously changing environment they operate in. For example, internet has changed the way we consume…
I’m currently using Visual Studio Online for my tooling and I was searching for a way to increment the build version for my solution. After searching the internet I found the following blog post which I applied, but for some reason it was not working as expected. I’m not using a default…
Scaling your development capacity can result in having multiple Development Teams. When using Scrum, the intent is to have one Product Owner managing one Product Backlog. With multiple Development Teams working on the same product, each Development Team has their own Sprint Backlog that they commit to for the duration…
With development multiple builds are started during the day. I noticed that I’m not sure if a build is still running and I’m forced to look into the web interface or ask a colleague. To get the attention when build is running I have created a PowerShell script that will start music when…
When developing a product it is common to create release notes when there is an update of the product. Creating these release notes can be a time consuming process which is depending on the amount of user stories that are delivered. It is common that Agile Project Management solutions like Pivotal Tracker have…
