Orange = Business, Green = IT
Despite the difficulties especially at the beginning of the project, it is still very well in time. This is caused by the fact that the team always kept working and the project was never unable to go on. Due to the agile nature of the project in time communication and transparency were possible!
This was the third part of our small Series about Agile Project Management. Look out for the next part which we are going to publish soon called "Agile Project Management – Agile on the next Level - Program Management"
The whole Series contains 4 pieces:
Agile Project Management – Basics (Part1) Agile Project Management – What is SCRUM (Part2) Agile Project Management – Agile Project Management in real Life (Part3) Agile Project Management – Agile on the next Level – Program Management (Part4)
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Today we start with our short series about agile Project Management with this first article.
Nowadays almost everyone (at least in IT environments) talks about agile project management methods. Some already checked them out, but often enough there are some counter positions to these methods which are related to some unclear things within the methodology.
This small series will try to describe in detail what agile project management is and what are the success factors. First of all: agile project management is a methodology and a mindset! It is NOT a strictly designed process, which will solve problems magically. Key points of "agile" are:
Agile Project management works iterative, the product AND the process will be reviewed and optimized after each iteration
The highly collaborative structure focuses on teamwork and end user transparency as in showing actual project progress or problems which slowed down the progress
At the end of each iteration there will be a product increment which can be used by the customer, this creates actual value and ROI even before the end of the project
Agile Project management can be used in nearly all custom development projects.
If your project has 100% fixed requirements, which will surely not change during the project (by the way...just because they are written down, it does not mean they are fixed!)…
If you roll out "commercial off-the-shelf" software, which is already packaged and automatically distributed (think about MS Office for example)... If your project deals with upgrading or patching a system… … then agile might not be the right approach. If you are thinking about doing your own agile project it is highly recommended to involve an already agile-experienced colleague as an "Agile-Coach". He can help you to set up the process and working mode and help to get a clear understanding what agile is about. Here are some doubts which are quite common regarding agile methods:
This was the first part of our small Series about Agile Project Management. Look out for the next part which we are going to publish soon called "Agile Project Management – What is SCRUM"
This was the last part of our small Series about Agile Project Management
In the preparation of this article, we discussed several ideas, how to introduce Scrum to you. In search of inspirations we have found the introduction video from the Scrum alliance.
In the end, this is a pretty short 80-seconds introduction to Scrum, which we would like to show to you, instead of reinventing the wheel again.
In addition to the video we would like to share more information:
Scrum is very good when it comes to establishing agile methods into an organization. By providing a simple approach it can easily be picked up and enhanced. Also Scrum is very well known and there are lots of experienced Scrum Coaches in the outside world of Covestro.
Scrum is a framework which provides a basis of 3 roles, 4 activities and 3 artifacts, which will now be explained in detail.
Each Scrum implementation is different though. Depending on the project or the organization there will be additional roles or activities. Scrum focuses on communication and collaboration by discussing requirements and short feedback cycles, which is the most important thing to keep in mind.
In the following we want to explain the different roles, activities and artifacts. Furthermore we want to provide you a check list what you have to prepare for your first Scrum project.
User Stories
A simple method to describe requirements, by a user's perspective, with only one or a few sentences. Usually a user story consist of Who? What? And Why?
e.g.: "As a user I want to be able to back up my data in order to recover it in case of an error."
User stories are constantly refined and extended during the project. They are the basis for discussion about the features. This will help to get a clear understanding of the requirements.
Sprint
An iteration of Scrum which is usually between 1 and 4 weeks long. Or in other words: This is the timeframe, in which work is planned continuously. Once the duration is set it should not be changed during the project though.
Artifacts
Artifacts provide information about the product, the requirement and the progress. The scrum team permanently works with the artifacts. For instance, an artifact is the list of requirements which are known so far.
Activities
Activities are mostly meetings which are part of each sprint. (The sprint itself can be seen as an activity too) By discussing and/or working with the artifacts during the activities, the project progress and obstacles become transparent.
Definition of Done
A project specific agreement which defines when a user story is completed.
This was the second part of our small Series about Agile Project Management. Look out for the next part which we are going to publish soon called "Agile Project Management – Agile Project Management in real Life"
While trying to synchronize a new device with an Exchange mailbox, you receive an error with your new mobile phone partnership.
The Exchange Server 2010 Default Throttling Policy is configured to accept 10 ActiveSync devices per mailbox only.
You can validate this setting by using EMS
Get-ThrottlingPolicy def* | Select Name,EASMaxDevices
Use a scheduled PowerShell script to delete old ActiveSync Device partnerships that have not been used for a defined period of time.
Find the most recent version on TechNet Gallery and Github, following the links provided in the Links section.
Modifiy the script path variables to fit your requirements. The variables are configured in the ### BEGIN Variables section.
Steps being executed:
<# .SYNOPSIS Remove Exchange Server 2010 ActiveSync Device Partnerships Sebastian Rubertus / Thomas Stensitzki THIS CODE IS MADE AVAILABLE AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK OF THE USE OR THE RESULTS FROM THE USE OF THIS CODE REMAINS WITH THE USER. Send comments and remars to: support@granikos.eu Version 1.0, 2015-04-09 .LINK More information can be found at http://www.rubertus.net/Blog/tabid/85/EntryId/41/Scripted-removing-of-ActiveSync-Device-Partnerships.aspx .DESCRIPTION THis script removes ActiveSync device association from user mailboxes that have been inactive for more than 150 days. .NOTES Requirements - Exchange Server 2010 - Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 Revision History -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 Initial community release .EXAMPLE Remove-ActiveSyncDevicePartnership #> ### BEGIN SnapIns ------------------------------------------------------------- # Add Exchange SnapIn if not already loaded if ( (Get-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null ) { Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ( (Get-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null ) { Write-Host "Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin could NOT be loaded!" -ForegroundColor Red Write-Host "Verify that the Exchange 2010 Management is installed on this computer!" -ForegroundColor Red } } ### END SnapIns --------------------------------------------------------------- ### BEGIN Variables | EDIT ACCORDING TO YOUR NEEDS ---------------------------- # ScriptPath $scriptPath = "C:\Scripts\Remove-ActiveSync-Devices\" # Logfile $logfile = "C:\Scripts\Remove-ActiveSync-Devices\Logs\$(get-date -format yyyy-MM-dd___HH-mm-ss)___Logname.log" ### END Variables ------------------------------------------------------------- ### BEGIN Functions ----------------------------------------------------------- Function Log { Param ([string]$logstring) Add-content $logfile -value "$(get-date -format yyyy-MM-dd___HH-mm-ss) $logstring " } ### END Functions ------------------------------------------------------------- ### BEGIN Main ---------------------------------------------------------------- # Create a new log file Write-Host Write-Host "Script started, creating Log File." Log "Script started." Write-Host # Query User Mailboxes and Device Statistics Write-Host "Querying User Mailboxes, please wait a few seconds..." -ForeGroundColor green Log "Querying User Mailboxes." Write-Host $Mailboxes = Get-Mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails UserMailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -WarningAction SilentlyContinue $NumberOfMailboxes = $Mailboxes.count Write-Host "Number of Mailboxes: $NumberOfMailboxes " Log "Number of Mailboxes: $NumberOfMailboxes " Write-Host # Iterate each User Mailbox ForEach ($Mailbox in $Mailboxes) { $MailboxAlias = $Mailbox.Alias Write-Host Write-Host "=================================================================================" Write-Host Write-Host "Getting ActiveSync Devices from user $MailboxAlias..." Log "Getting ActiveSync Devices from user $MailboxAlias. " $AllDevicesFromSpecificUser = Get-ActiveSyncDevice -Mailbox $MailboxAlias -Result Unlimited -WarningAction SilentlyContinue | Get-ActiveSyncDeviceStatistics -WarningAction SilentlyContinue $AllDevicesFromSpecificUserNotSynchronizedSince150Days = Get-ActiveSyncDevice -Mailbox $MailboxAlias -Result Unlimited -WarningAction SilentlyContinue | Get-ActiveSyncDeviceStatistics -WarningAction SilentlyContinue | Where {$_.LastSuccessSync -le (Get-Date).AddDays("-150")} Write-Host $CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUser = $AllDevicesFromSpecificUser.Count $CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUserNotSynchronizedSince150Days = $AllDevicesFromSpecificUserNotSynchronizedSince150Days.Count If ($CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUser -lt 5) { Write-Host "User $MailboxAlias has only $CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUser ActiveSync Devices. Nothing to delete!" -ForegroundColor Green Log "User $MailboxAlias has only $CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUser ActiveSync Devices. Nothing to delete!" } If (($CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUser -gt 4) -and ($CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUserNotSynchronizedSince150Days -gt 1)) { Write-Host "User $MailboxAlias has $CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUser devices. $CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUserNotSynchronizedSince150Days have not synced for more than 150 days." -ForegroundColor Red Log "User $MailboxAlias has $CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUser devices. $CountAllDevicesFromSpecificUserNotSynchronizedSince150Days have not synced for more than 150 days." ForEach ($Device in $AllDevicesFromSpecificUserNotSynchronizedSince150Days) { $DeviceType = $Device.DeviceType $DeviceFriendly = $Device.FriendlyName $DeviceID = $Device.DeviceID $DeviceFirstSyncTime = $Device.FirstSyncTime $DeviceLastSuccessSync = $Device.LastSuccessSync Write-Host Write-Host "ActiveSync Device 2 delete Properties: " Write-Host "-------------------------------------- " Write-Host "Type : $DeviceType " Write-Host "Friendly Name: $DeviceFriendly " Write-Host "ID : $DeviceID " Write-Host "Last Sync : $DeviceLastSuccessSync " -ForegroundColor Red Log "Removing Device $DeviceType with ID $DeviceID ..." Write-Host Write-Host "Removing Device $DeviceID ..." -ForegroundColor Red $Device | Remove-ActiveSyncDevice -WarningAction SilentlyContinue } } } # Script finished Write-Host Write-Host "Script finished!" Write-Host Log "Script finished!" ### END Main ------------------------------------------------------------------
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In den letzten Jahren haben sich die Themenschwerpunkte der großen Microsoft Konferenzen mehr und mehr hin zu Cloud-Themen verschoben. Die Einfachheit einer Migration von lokal gehosteten Exchange Server-Postfächer hin zu Exchange Online wird immer wieder hervorgehoben. Ebenso werden neue Möglichkeiten geschaffen, um möglichst einfach eine Hybrid-Anbindung mit Exchange Online zu etablieren.
Themen rund um den stabilen und sicheren Betrieb einer lokalen Exchange Server Organisation haben auf diesen Konferenzen keinen Platz mehr. The REAL Exchange Experience möchte dem Bedarf an Themen für den Betrieb von Exchange Server in der lokalen IT-Infrastrukur Rechnung tragen.
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