Author: Richard Hundhausen

Get ready for the launch of Visual Studio 2013

Sep 12, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Visual Studio 2013 will launch on November 13. You can join the festivities virtually from your workstation or mobile device. Watch the keynote speech live or at a later time. You can also hear how …

Visual Studio

Story Mapping Software

Sep 11, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Updated 16 Sep, 2015 to freshen up the links A few weeks ago I ran a free, half-day Agile software requirements workshop in Boise. There were over 100 attendees and we had good conversations about …

Scrum Tools Azure Boards

Exporting TF Status to Excel

Dec 14, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

You can use TF.EXE STATUS to display information about pending changes to items in one or more workspaces. I use this prior to migrations to see what users have files checked-out and locked, and they …

TFS SQL Server

What’s new in the Visual Studio Scrum 2.1 Process Template?

Nov 28, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you’ve connected to the hosted Team Foundation Service lately, you’ve noticed a new version of the Scrum template is available … Being the curious type, I connected to the service with Visual …

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Removing TFS bindings from solutions and projects

Oct 10, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When you try to open a solution that is under Team Foundation Server Version Control for a TFS that you don’t have access to, you will receive the message "The solution you are opening is bound to …

TFS Visual Studio

Upgrade your Sprint Retrospective Meetings

Aug 14, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Tired of asking each other "how the Sprint went"? Try one of these alternate Sprint Retrospective activities to change the pace a bit: Retrospective Timeline Happiness Histogram Mad, Sad, Glad The 4 …

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Implementing Scrum Using Visual Studio 2012

Jun 11, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Updated 6/12/2012 : Since my breakout session today was on the same topic, I thought I would just hitchhike onto this post from Sunday. My presentation and an updated ScrumRobot are available for …

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Which Scrum Team member should set PBI and Bug work item states?

Jun 8, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

This is a fairly common question, usually by teams new to Scrum. The Scrum Guide clearly identifies the roles and their responsibilities. Team Foundation Server does not. It only identifies security …

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Scrum Fundamentals Workshop in Boise

May 2, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thank you for attending the workshop yesterday. You can find the presentation link below. It was three hours of packed information (and a packed room). I believe we had around 90 people in the …

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