Welcome to EMC Consulting Blogs

It’s always been possible to descope work in the Scrum for Team System template. But the method employed in Version 2.2 whilst functional, was quite fiddly, overly manual and not very “Scrummy”. When building 3.0 we took the opportunity to revamp the way in which it worked and better utilise the power of the Event Service (something you can see ...

The new bug model in Scrum for Team System 3.0 might look obvious at first, but it's taken a long while getting to where it is. Before I start delving into how the new bug model works, it's worth taking some time to describe what came before it. Almost by coincidence, each of the three major versions of Scrum for Team System have had a different ...

EMC Consulting / EMC Conchango are pleased to be co-hosting the AltNetConf UK the 1st weekend of August 2009. The event will be run over the entire weekend as follows: Altnet Beers - Fri 31st July @ Tequila Open Space Coding Day - Sat 1st August @ EMC Conchango Alt.Net UK Conference - Sun 2nd August @ EMC Conchango Due to demand the ...

EMC Consulting / EMC Conchango are hosting the next London .Net User Group on Thursday 19th February 2009.  It will be hosted at our London Bridge office, click here. The line up includes Gojko Adzic and David de Floriner on NServiceBus and, running in parallel, Alan Dean on REST. Details of Gojko and David's session below, more details on ...

A calender has been created to help with coordinating various .NET related events in the UK (especially in London). Using a single group calendar (NING) will give us all better visibility of community activities and help to prevent clashing events. It will also provide you with a way to notify the community about your events. For more info ...

Event: London .Net User Group  Date: Weds 24th September Time: 6:30pm Location: Conchango's London offices Ian Cooper's event information I am liasing with Gojko Adzic about a talk for that session, and I will share more details with you when I have them.In addition I will be speaking about NHibernate again in a repeat of the last ...

What to do? You spent months pouring over your choices, listened to internal concerns and external advice. You raised your CAPEX over 5 years for your businesses eCommerce / web platform - and that was in 2003! Now as 2008 fast approaches it's finale - IT Directors, eCommerce Directors.... now look at what to do next? Review their KPIs and decide ...

Alex Mackey has contacted me about a new .Net User Group which has been set up in the Surrey area.  DevEvening has had 3 sessions so far and all content and presentations are given by the members themselves. If you live in the Surrey area and struggle to get into London for the London .Net User Group we host then this could be what you ...

  I'm a big fan of anything that can make me work faster - working on an agile project can be at quite a hectic pace and anything that can save me a couple of minutes, especially if its something I do often is a good thing. I spoke at our last community day about Behaviour Driven Development and why I thought it really fitted with agile ...

So, okay, the title’s a bit cheesy (and probably been used a thousand times before) for the blog of a software developer, but after almost a year to the day of working at Conchango this is my first blog post so it seemed quite apt.  One of the many benefits of working here at Conchango is that you’re surrounded by a mass of immense ...