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Use Excel to Create Repetitive Work Items

Feb 24, 2015 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Teams often ask me for any shortcuts to periodically creating the same work items, such as for each sprint or release. In other words, they want to create the same Product Backlog Item or Task (but …

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Promoting a PBI to a Feature (Epic)

Jan 29, 2015 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

For Scrum Teams using TFS 2013 to create and manage their Product Backlog, they may want to take advantage of the new Agile Portfolio. This “higher level” backlog allows a team or …

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Team members in the Readers group can create work items!

Nov 17, 2014 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Watch out. This could happen to you and your team. Let’s assume you have a single team project with three teams (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato) … Next, let’s assume you have Jake, a …

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Using the Kanban Board to Implement a Definition of Ready

Nov 14, 2014 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

More and more teams are adopting a Definition of Ready (also known as DoR or Readiness Criteria) to avoid starting work on PBIs that are ill-defined, such as those that do not have clearly defined …

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What’s New in the Visual Studio Scrum 2013.4 Process Template

Nov 14, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Many Visual Studio and .NET announcements were made this week. A minor one was the RTM of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4. This update included improvements and bug fixes to Team Foundation Server 2013. …

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A unique load testing experiment

Oct 21, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Most of the guidance you’ll find about Visual Studio Ultimate Load Tests suggests that they are only for load testing Web Performance tests. Actually, they can be used to load other types of …

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Develop.Idaho 2014 Videos Published

May 9, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Updated 20 May: Added presentations (but no videos) from the "Business of Software" track. It took a few extra days to get these produced and published, but they are now on YouTube for your …

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What's New in the Visual Studio Scrum 2013.2 Process Template

Mar 24, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I noticed today that the process templates in Visual Studio Online are showing a “.2” suffix in their names. I’m not exactly sure when this update occurred, but am pretty sure it’s related to Visual …

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Free TFS 2013 Webinars in March and April 2014

Mar 17, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I noticed that Microsoft Customer Service & Support (CSS) is offering a number of great webinars in the coming days on various TFS and ALM topics … TFS Release Management Tool (19 March …

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