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Team Alerts in Team Foundation Server 11

Feb 10, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Team Alerts are just one of the many new features coming in the next version of Team Foundation Server. They simplify the creation and management of alerts that impact that entire team. For example, …

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Thought for today: TFS build agents are like shared, network printers

Jan 23, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here’s your thought for the day: Think of Team Foundation Build build agents like shared, network printers in a large enterprise. Each printer can be assigned one or more tags such as laser, ink, …

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Run Visual Studio 11 ALM VMs on a 32-bit operating system

Jan 9, 2012 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Like most Microsoft ALM geeks, I downloaded the Visual Studio 11 ALM VM the day Brian Keller posted it. One of the first things I realized is that the VM is for 64-bit operating systems only. This is …

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Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group: VS11 and Scrum

Oct 20, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was in town this week delivering a Professional Scrum Developer Train-The-Trainer (TTT) event. Last night I gave a presentation to a full room at the Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group on using …

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Microsoft launches Team Foundation Service Preview

Sep 14, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

There are many, many new and cool technologies and products being introduced, announced, and launched at //Build this week. One of these is close to my heart: the Visual Studio Team Foundation …

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A Scrum comparison of the MSF/Agile and Visual Studio Scrum templates

Aug 3, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

While it’s possible for a Scrum team to use the MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 process template to implement Scrum, it makes more sense to use the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template, …

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Emergent Architecture Presentation at TechEd 2011

Jun 1, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

UPDATE (3 June 2011): Watched the recorded presentation on Channel 9. I finally got my (final) Emergent Architecture (DPR308) presentation posted. I had a couple of people tell me that the deck they …

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Would You, Could You With TFS?

May 27, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As you know Team Foundation Server 2010 supports most (but not all) Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) activities as the busy diagram below (from InCycle Software) suggests: In addition to …

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Visual Studio Technical Learning Center at TechEd 2011

May 24, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I wanted to post a short video of the Technical Learning Center (TLC) at this year’s Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, GA. The TLC is the place to see Microsoft product demos, talk with industry …

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