What's your VSTS worst practice?
For those of you who joined me at VSLive! this week in San Francisco, I had fun sharing many worst (or un-preferred) practices I've run into over the years. My talk broke them down into several areas: …
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I am currently in Jacksonville, North Carolina to teach a 3 day Team System class to the U. S. Marine Corp. To get here, I took 3 planes today with the last one loaded up with Marines on their way to …
Read more →Because of the decentralized control model of Agile software development methodologies, there is a living debate on the role of a Product Owner, particularly in Scrum which defines the term. Here are …
Read more →TFS Global Lists Cannot Be Deleted
Seriously. They can’t.
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=259259&SiteID=1 You may delete specific values, but not the list itself. This means you can effectively "zero …
Read more →Lightweight Scrum Process Template Updated
Mike Azocar, a fellow Team System MVP, reports:
We released LWS version 2.1 today. This version includes a new process guidance and SharePoint template as well as many work item …
Read more →Having just inherited a TFS installation to manage, I received a request to add some values to a global list. I got a little nervous about this when I saw that the server had many (MANY) global lists …
Read more →Martin Woodward has done his magic again! For those of you who don't know Martin, he is the primary developer of Teamprise, a fantastic suite of client applications that gives Java developers …
Read more →FinalBuilder 6.0 to integrate directly with Team Foundation Build
Last year I posted a note about how to integrate VSoft Technology FinalBuilder with Team Build. I really like FinalBuilder and think it's easy to use, compared with having to hand-jam the XML of …
Read more →Installing Team Edition(s) on your Team Foundation Build server
It's generally known that if you want to run any tests, code analysis, or database project build/deployment that you need to install one or more Team Edition of VSTS on your build server. What's not …
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