According to Microsoft’s official definition, Team Rooms, like chat rooms, “provide teams with a space to discuss work in progress, ask questions, share status, and clarify issues that …
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Use Excel to Create Repetitive Work Items
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 …
Read more →The One Work Item check-in policy
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 …
Read more →Who wants to be a Professional Scrum Trainer?
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 …
Read more →I have just finished delivering a Team Foundation Course today, and we had some great discussions around TFS Administration, upgrading, adoption etc.
As usual, there is a whole pile of questions that …
Read more →Running nUnit in a TFS11 build on 64 bit server
Overview In TFS/VS 11, frameworks other than MS Test are supported, which is cool. Peter Provost mentions them here. OK, so you start to use this great new feature, queue up a team build and the …
Read more →TFS2010 Build output to a Custom Folder Structure
How to output TFS2010 build output to a subfolder The scenario that exists is that I need to build a more detailed tree structure in the build output. I was looking for the least intrusive means of …
Read more →Thought for today: TFS build agents are like shared, network printers
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, …
Read more →Top 5 Reasons to use VS Database Projects
There is a traditional resistance to using database projects – the production system is the reference point, and I have a backup, so what is the problem, right?
Since the GDR2 was released, this …
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