Author: Richard Hundhausen

The ProcessTemplateEditorPackage package did not load correctly

Feb 26, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Yesterday, while using Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013 to customize a process template, I ran into this error … As suggested, I checked the ActivityLog.xml, but it didn’t offer anything more …

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TFS 2013 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) fails with %TFSServerURLValidated% error

Feb 14, 2014 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Earlier this week I installed the Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools and went to run a BPA scan. It finished very quickly, giving me a couple of strange %TFSServerURLValidated% messages … …

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Unconfiguring Team Foundation Server 2013

Feb 13, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

This is an update to an older post that I had written for TFS 2010. Here are the steps to unconfigure TFS 2013 … Execute tfsconfig setup /uninstall:all. This should be done from the …

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Quality Enablement through Agile Testing

Nov 6, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thank you for attending last week’s Quality Enablement through Agile Testing event put on by Microsoft here in Boise. I hope you had fun exploring the testing tools in Visual Studio and Team …

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SharePoint 2013 support for Windows Server 2012 R2

Nov 6, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

UPDATE (14 March 2014) - As a few of you have pointed out, Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 is now available. Wanted to share a surprise impediment from earlier this week. …

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Tips to passing the Professional Scrum Developer 1 assessment

Oct 7, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Developer I (PSD I) assessment measures knowledge of how to build complex software products using Scrum, and allows people to validate this understanding. If you are …

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The One Work Item check-in policy

Oct 7, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thanks to my fellow Visual Studio ALM MVP Colin Dembovsky for building the “One Work Item” check-in policy that I was always too lazy to build. Judging by the title, it may sound like one of the …

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Measuring the Business Value of a PBI

Oct 4, 2013 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m curious. What do you enter in the Business Value field? Take this PBI work item for example … According to MSDN you are supposed to type a number that indicates the relative business value of the …

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Who wants to be a Professional Scrum Trainer?

Sep 24, 2013 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Registration is now open for our Professional Scrum Developer Train The Trainer (TTT) event in Stuttgart, Germany on December 2-6, 2013. This will be the last such event this year. We are looking for …

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