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Visual Studio 2010 ALM Guidance from the Rangers

May 12, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Now that Visual Studio 2010 has launched, teams are discovering just how much capability is included within those .iso files. MSDN does a good job of explaining what the buttons do, but you really …

Visual Studio Community Testing

Is Annotate good for Scrum teams?

May 10, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As you know, you can use the TFS Annotate command to learn which team member made a particular change to a particular file. It can also show you who wrote each line of code in a file and when. This …

Scrum Visual Studio

Test-Driven Test-Driven Development (TDTDD) = a chicken and egg dilemma

May 10, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Weird thought for today: if unit tests are just code, then shouldn’t you write tests before you write that code? Test-driven-test-driven-development (TDTDD) if you will. But then where would it stop. …

Development Testing

Application Lifecycle Management interview at the Visual Studio 2010 launch

May 5, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

At the Visual Studio 2010 launch a few weeks ago I was interviewed, along with David Starr, about ALM. I just found the recording online. Here are the steps to get to it: 1. Go to …

Visual Studio Conferences

New Scrum one pager by the VS ALM Rangers

May 5, 2010 • 1 min read • Simon Reindl

The Rangers have published an update to the quick reference stack, and one of my favourites is the Scrum chart. Download the full pack here. The pack is broken down by headings Start Here Planning …

Scrum Preferred Practice Visual Studio Development Testing

Getting to Done with VS2010

Apr 23, 2010 • 5 min read • Simon Reindl

One of the most critical aspects of any project is when have you got to done. This is one of the central principles of Scrum, as it is the contract between the team that is going to produce something, …

Scrum Preferred Practice Visual Studio Azure Boards Testing

Visual Studio 2010 Presentations at DevConnections

Apr 16, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thank you to everyone who attended my talks at DevConnections in Las Vegas this week. I enjoyed meeting you and showing you the new capabilities in Visual Studio 2010. VVS01 - Agile Database …

TFS Visual Studio Conferences

Professional Scrum Developer training commences

Apr 10, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The first PSD training books have arrived at their destination, ready for class to begin on Monday … in Brazil! We wish Giovanni Bassi good luck with his class next week. He is running the first PSD …

Scrum Visual Studio

Manually Processing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Warehouse and Analysis Services Database

Apr 8, 2010 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

There are many reasons and times that you will want to manually process the TFS 2010 Data Warehouse and Analysis Services databases. The primary reason is that you are impatient and want to see your …

TFS