• The Need for Experiments in Scrum Teams

    The Need for Experiments in Scrum Teams

    Did you know that doing experiments is essential in Scrum teams?

    As a team member, you want your team to be effective and valuable to your organization. Whether a team is effective or not depends on the way it works. For example, a software development team is more effective at delivering working software if the team members take time to program and test their code, than if they spend most of their time in meetings. Therefore, your team can become more effective if it improves the way it works. Moreover, if your team always keeps working the same way, it will probably become less effective over time.

     
    Staying the same is dangerous
    Why is that? If you have found the perfect workflow, you shouldn’t change it, right? If the work you do stays e…

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  • Validating Azure Bicep templates with PSRule

    Validating Azure Bicep templates with PSRule

    Seeing whether your Bicep or ARM templates are correct is usually only possible after performing a deployment. PSRule can help you with validating you…

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  • The Appeal Of Experiments in Scrum Teams

    The Appeal Of Experiments in Scrum Teams

    Does your team ever struggle to decide which experiments it should do?

    In a previous post, I explained why experimenting is essential for Scrum teams to remain effective. Teams can come up with many different experiments:…

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  • Configuring SQL Server encrypted connections using Powershell

    Configuring SQL Server encrypted connections using Powershell

    SQL Server supports encryption of its data connections; in this article I explain which steps to take and how to configure this using a simple Powershell script.

    Introduction
    After configuring a new machine with the latest SqlServer Powershell module the other day, I ran into a warning I hadn’t seen before:

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