Agile Team Roles

One of the best explanation video of Agile Team Roles 

Wiki's link more for distributed teams

I don't believe the agile teams, which are situated in same building, and same room should help out one another by sending Wiki's link. Agile is all about communication and face to face communication is the best way if you can do. I did notice quite a lot people like this trend to share wikis and ask to read through and come back with questions. Communication is a one of most important key for Agile team to understand and help each other to progress well towards sprint goal.

Agile Manifesto about communications:

"The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development

team is face-to-face conversation."

PMBOK about communications:

“Face to face meetings are the most effective means for communicating and resolving issues with stakeholders”

Scrum values

I was reading book in train this morning The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility and found these scrum values which are so well explained. Agile team should understand these values and dedicate to these rules.

• We believe in openness; therefore we will share project status as visible as possible
• We believe in respect; there we will treat everyone with courtesy and fairness and will not waste time in finger pointing
• We believe in courage; therefore we will not stand back in difficult conversation and say 'no' when we must
• We believe in focus; therefore we will organise our work in sprint and give priority
• We believe in commitment; therefore we will committed to our promise and will assume the accountability and authority we need to get it done and deliver

Get start with WP7 development

Just some steps to make sure before starts Windows Phone 7 development.

Step 1: First thing you need to make sure if you using Windows Vista you must have service pack 2 installed in your PC.

Step 2: Now if you have Visual Studio 2010 already installed in your PC still you can’t start WP7 development you need to install Windows Phone Developer Tools which includes:

Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone

Windows Phone Emulator Resources

Silverlight 4 Tools For Visual Studio

XNA Game Studio 4.0

Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone

Step 3: There is an update available of Windows Phone Developer Tool. Which you can install after completing Step 2.

Step 4: Now everything is set up open Visual Studio 2010 or Express which installed after Step 2. Browse project if project not available than you can selected from Online Template:

You are ready to start Windows Phone 7 Development.

Blog Engine .Net using Web Matrix 1:

First task here how to change spanner icon from Blog.

To find the place to change it expands the themes/standard folder and then open site.master file.

Here is the code where we need to make this change

<head runat="server" profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="~/pics/blogengine.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>

head>

Change the url of shortcut icon:

<head runat="server" profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="~/themes/Standard/camera.png" type="image/x-icon"/>

head>

Now run the website and you will notice the icon is changed to: