I've seen Test Driven Development work, so why not adjust it slightly and have the attendees (who own the requirements after all) drive the presentation? Today, at the in-between conference (a.k.a. …
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In many Agile development processes, there exists the idea of THE BACKLOG. This is particularly true in Scrum, the methodology that originated the idea. The recipe from Scrum is a Product Backlog …
Read more →Installing a TFS Production Server - Meeting Notes
I just had a meeting where we discussed setting up a TFS 2008 production server and I went through the system requirements with our system administrator. The focus was on groups needed in Active …
Read more →Rosario April CTP Available for Download
Now that Team Foundation Server 2008 is out, the Visual Studio Team System product team is totally focused on the next version, known as Rosario. If the current release rhythm continues, Rosario is …
Read more →Multiply your team's voltage by working in parallel
My final talk at VSLive! San Francisco this week was on one of my favorite topics - parallel development. In other words, dealing with the real-world situations where multiple developers are coding …
Read more →Should you Migrate to Team Foundation Server or just Integrate with It?
That was the topic of our discussion today at VSLive! San Francisco. Unfortunately, in the short amount of time (75 minutes) we didn't get too deep into all of the tools and techniques, but I did get …
Read more →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: …
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 …
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