Tommy N. posted an article on Tommy Norman - Oct 26, 2009, 1:20 pm
Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN are BIG – and they are getting bigger!  In this session, we’ll explore all the changes to the Visual Studio family of products, including Team Foundation Server as...
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Tommy N. posted an article on Tommy Norman - Oct 14, 2009, 9:04 pm
When I talk to clients about adopting the basic values from the Agile Manifesto, I tell them to imagine sliders between the four entries on the left and right. A good adoption is like mixing a band an...
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Tommy N. posted an article on Tommy Norman - Oct 13, 2009, 7:46 pm
Last week I had to opportunity to visit with the team working on Team System in Raleigh, NC. I contacted Jason Barile via Twitter a few weeks before and asked if I could stop by and he went all out to...
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Tommy N. posted an article on Tommy Norman - Sep 11, 2009, 10:49 am
I am working on a new presentation entitled "Software Craftsmanship for Working Class Developers" where I want to talk about this movement and the difficulties most of us have implementing its ideals ...
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Tommy N. posted an article on Tommy Norman - Sep 6, 2009, 8:48 pm
Agile 2009 is in the books and this was my first year to attend and lucky enough to present. Unfortunately duty called and I was only able to attend the first two days, but I still had a great experie...
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Tommy N. posted an article on Tommy Norman - Jul 23, 2009, 10:00 am
For the past four years VersionOne has run a survey for Agile adoption and published the results to the community. While it tends to lean towards people already adopting Agile practices, it is nice to...
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Tommy N. posted an article on Tommy Norman - Jul 9, 2009, 1:05 pm
I've been re-reading a few books lately and in the process it made me start to think of how differently I approach software development than when I first started. It seemed that each time I reach ...
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Tommy N. posted an article on Tommy Norman - Jul 9, 2009, 11:22 am
I have been lucky to work for some great consulting companies over the years who recognize the importance of their consultants actively participating in thought leadership and IT community activities....
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