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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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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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The One Work Item check-in policy

Oct 7, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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Measuring the Business Value of a PBI

Oct 4, 2013 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m curious. What do you enter in the Business Value field? Take this PBI work item for example … According to MSDN you are supposed to type a number that indicates the relative business value of the …

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Story Mapping Software

Sep 11, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Updated 16 Sep, 2015 to freshen up the links A few weeks ago I ran a free, half-day Agile software requirements workshop in Boise. There were over 100 attendees and we had good conversations about …

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What’s new in the Visual Studio Scrum 2.1 Process Template?

Nov 28, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you’ve connected to the hosted Team Foundation Service lately, you’ve noticed a new version of the Scrum template is available … Being the curious type, I connected to the service with Visual …

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Implementing Scrum Using Visual Studio 2012

Jun 11, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Updated 6/12/2012 : Since my breakout session today was on the same topic, I thought I would just hitchhike onto this post from Sunday. My presentation and an updated ScrumRobot are available for …

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Which Scrum Team member should set PBI and Bug work item states?

Jun 8, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

This is a fairly common question, usually by teams new to Scrum. The Scrum Guide clearly identifies the roles and their responsibilities. Team Foundation Server does not. It only identifies security …

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