Yesterday I released the TFS Scorecard project on codeplex. TFS Scorecard is a report with the goal to provide you insight in your TFS environment and your organizations Team System adaptation.
The TFS Scorecard actually started a long time ago, when I first saw Brian Harrys dogfooding posts on Microsoft Team System adaptation. I wanted to know what went on in my own backyard, and running Brian’s SQL queries was a good start. Later I came across a reporting services report made by Christian Nielsen as I upgraded it with the 2008 version of the queries.
Since then I have used the report internally and at different customers, running into new information needs and adding functionality along the way. It has helped me answer questions, motivating costs and activities and solving performance issues.
Moving the TFS Scorecard to Codeplex was made mainly to make it easily accessible for everyone. Have it helped me it could perhaps prove to be useful to others.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
My circle of interest
About a year ago I read Grant Hollidays post on What’s your circle of interest ? (the question originating from Paul Stovel). Grant’s post got me thinking about my own circles, I decided that if I ever started blogging, my first post would be to define my circles of interest. So here I am with my first post and my circles.
The Circles are defined as three categories like this:
Core
These are things I enjoy, care about, and follow as much as I can. When news breaks in these areas, I try to stay on top. I like to think I’m an expert in some of them, and have strong opinions on the rest.
Non-core
I find myself working with these things, or have a minor interest in them, but tend to follow announcements occasionally. I have opinions and will probably complain if I don’t like certain aspects of them, but I’m not about to start evangelising them.
I don’t care
The only time I spend in these things is to decide whether I care or not. I don’t really use them. I don’t pay much attention to them. I prefer not to work in any of these areas.
Drawing the circles and getting it down on paper was a bit harder than I anticipated from the start. As I struggled with it and the definitions I noticed that I looked at my topics from two different viewpoints. Some topics are in focus if I think from the point of doing the right thing to solve a business need; others are from the perspective of doing it right when developing a solution.
The Circles are defined as three categories like this:
Core
These are things I enjoy, care about, and follow as much as I can. When news breaks in these areas, I try to stay on top. I like to think I’m an expert in some of them, and have strong opinions on the rest.
Non-core
I find myself working with these things, or have a minor interest in them, but tend to follow announcements occasionally. I have opinions and will probably complain if I don’t like certain aspects of them, but I’m not about to start evangelising them.
I don’t care
The only time I spend in these things is to decide whether I care or not. I don’t really use them. I don’t pay much attention to them. I prefer not to work in any of these areas.
Drawing the circles and getting it down on paper was a bit harder than I anticipated from the start. As I struggled with it and the definitions I noticed that I looked at my topics from two different viewpoints. Some topics are in focus if I think from the point of doing the right thing to solve a business need; others are from the perspective of doing it right when developing a solution.
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