The MVP Summit and Agile Arguments
I spent the earlier part of this week in Seattle and Redmond for the 2009 MVP Summit (I am actually somewhere in the crowd for this video, please don’t hold it against me…) and came away with a ton of...
View ArticleVisual Studio Team System (VSTS) Rangers Ship New SharePoint guidance!
Before I get into the purpose of this post, it’s probably important to define just exactly what a “VSTS Ranger” is. The following definition was taken from Willy-Peter Schaub’s blog:“Rangers are...
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The Visual Studio Team System Big Event!
One of the great things about being a Team System MVP is you get to participate in many different types of events. I really have to hand it to Steve Lange and Microsoft on this one though, this looks...
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SSWUG Online FREE Community Event
The good people over at the SQL Server Worldwide Users Group (SSWUG) are hosting a FREE online event to showcase some of the best sessions from past Virtual Conferences. The event will be held online...
View ArticleWhat a Surreal Day!
Today was one of those VERY strange days.. For starters, today was the first day of the SSWUG Ultimate Virtual Conference (by the way, there’s still 2 days left and you can still register. Use code...
View ArticleSo long, Configuresoft…….
For those that know me, you know I’ve spent untold hours over the last seven years working with a fantastic company and some of the best people I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing. When I first came...
View Articleand Hello EMC!
If you read my previous post, you know that I still had some issues to clean up around the Configuresoft to EMC transition. I’m happy to say that these issues are all now nicely put to bed, so I can...
View ArticleMore on the transition to EMC
If you follow this blog, you know that I’ve recently become an employee of EMC. As a matter of fact, I just got my badge today. (As a side note, why do badge photos have to be so horrible?) It has been...
View ArticleBI for the IT Guy (or Gal)
One of the things that I have struggled with in the past in explaining “my” product (Configuration Analytics Manager– CAM) to people who’ve not seen it, is connecting the dots from the “elevator pitch”...
View ArticleCross-Domain Business Intelligence
One problem that seems to plague organizations these days is a lack of understanding of how Business Intelligence techniques apply to more than just the typical “what’s our sales performance” question....
View ArticleInsane(ly stupid!) HP Customer Service
Those that know me are aware of the fact that I tend to be rather vocal in my support for the things that I use. I’m an advocate for most Microsoft Technologies, an advocate for the much-maligned Zune...
View ArticleIt’s been awhile – and Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 is Released!
It has really been a LONG time since I’ve posted here. In my defense, I’ve spent the last year blogging about my dogs and their fight with cancer (See http://nikkitherott.tripawds.com and...
View ArticleA Very Interesting “Community-Focused” Project.
As a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), I’ve had the opportunity to work with some pretty amazing people over the years, and have always been impressed with how “Community-Focused” this group...
View ArticleA Couple of Major Visual Studio Announcements
This week Microsoft is hosting the Visual Studio Live conference in Redmond. This conference is one of those that is fun to get to if you can, but I have unfortunately not been able to attend this time...
View ArticleMoving the Blog to a New Home
Blogger has been very good to me for this blog, but I am moving it to a new home on my personal website. I’ve been playing around with the incredibly functional mojoPortal (check it out, it’s VERY...
View ArticleMoving the Blog Back Here!
Well, after playing around with the blog on my local server, I’ve decided that it really does work best here on blogger. I have changed the url to http://blog.sqltrainer.com so hopefully that won’t...
View ArticleSQL Server Worldwide User Group (SSWUG) PowerPivot Analytics Expo
The folks at SSWUG are putting on a PowerPivot Analytics expo on July 15th. I’ll be speaking at the event on “SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Feature Review”. My session will be broadcast from...
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The Cloud and Software Engineering
In my role here at EMC, I have the opportunity to speak to many of our software development teams about how software development is changing. One of the presentations that I give discusses industry...
View ArticleMicrosoft MVP for another year!
Was honored to receive “the email” from the Microsoft MVP Award Program letting me know that I have been awarded MVP for another year in Visual Studio ALM. Have to say that I am very honored to be a...
View ArticleBig (say it with me now) Data
Over the last few months I’ve been working with more and more people who have the buzz-phrase, “Big Data” on their minds. For some reason, many people think that “Big Data” (in this context, I’m...
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