I know it's out of left field, but I thought it would be fun to share. In my daily work, I'm finding that more often than not Scrum is the de facto standard framework for dealing with complex software products. Although strictly speaking not a part of Scrum itself, the game of Planning Poker is often used to estimate feature delivery time. In it, Fibonacci numbers are used (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144) as an agreed-upon estimation unit (such as duration days or story points). Fibonacci numbers are used there to reflect the inherent uncertainty in estimating larger items (the longer an estimate is, the more uncertainty it contains). In the Scrum Poker app I'm using, for some reason a small variation on the Fibonacci sequence is used, namely: 0, ½, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100, a ? (unsure) and a coffee cup (I need a break) and I've read on Wikipedia that more Scrum Poker apps are doing this.
Anyway, recently I was on holiday visiting Pisa and Florence, and I came upon this statue of Fibonacci and I thought that was really cool so I took a picture. Now, most of my friends are really not interested in this sort of stuff so I was wondering who I could bother with this. Finally, it came to me :-).
More and more Microsoft technologies are relying on agile methodologies (like Scrum). The reason is abundantly clear. Power BI updates twice a month, and at least one Azure service updates almost every week or two!
Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week.
First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...
Ed (who is fast becoming a well known figure at TechNet Wiki) ROCKETS to the top of the list this week! Excellent work sir! Also showing high in the new articles rota!
As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.
Most Revisions Award Who has made the most individual revisions
Why highlight a duplicate, which may even be gone by the time you read this?
Well, partly because it was the article with the most change, in a minus direction of course, but also the love from Richard shows responsible Wiki conduct, thanks Richard. But also because the original version Ed posted here is an excellent read anyway.
Longest Article Award Biggest article updated this week
Well I never! I didn't know ML6000 was compatible with System Center 2012!!! Probably because, in all honesty, I never needed to know...
But that's because I'm probably not as awesome as you and Rayne, so I bow before this monster article that continues to give love to those more awesome than me.
Most Revised Article Award Article with the most revisions in a week
Go go Gurus! The sensational flood of facts and food for thought continues to pour out of every pore of so many community minded individuals that enrich our lives with their own work and revelations. Let us bask in their glory! One day to go till August deadline!!
Steef-Jan is another of those names I'm sure you're all familiar with, as he is a major figure in TechNet Wiki. His contributions are always worth a read, as he is a proven leader in BizTalk circles. This new arrival won't disappoint either!
Most Popular Article Award Collaboration is the name of the game!
Skipping past the August Guru article, this comes second and worth the win. Although it currently says "work in progress, do not edit", five people have decided it's good enough for a few minor community love tweaks.
Congratulations to Ugur Demir - TAT and Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT! A double TAT draw again, all hail the Avengers! Excellent work, as always lads! Also in the top ten are:
Omid said: "I 've used all articles, but more specifically the best articles have written by Patris "کتاب مشاور جیبی ادمینهای اکتیو دایرکتوری" . in addition Yahya zahedi has written a good article on Hyper-V virtualization".
Ed said: "Here are my top 4. But I don't know Farsi, so this is more for topic, formatting, depth, and visualizations. For all I know, the grammar or sentence structure is bad. =^): 1- Farid 2- Fatemeh 3- Yahya 4- Erfan".
Me: "I appreciate all the articles from our community, but I think the best articles belongs to Yahya!".
In the rest of this post we are going to know the winner more:
Ladies and gentlemen, the first MTPC award goes to Yahya Zahedi for his Hyper-V article:
He is one of our active members in the Persian community and has about 45 articles. Furthermore, he has continuous activities on the TechNet forums. You could check his blog about the networking and virtualization.
Join me to congratulate him for his efforts to disseminate knowledge on Microsoft Technologies.
