Tag: Azure Boards

Apr 11, 2012 • 3 min read • Simon Reindl

Tracking waste in TFS Overview Tracking waste and gathering the empirical data is one of the most effective ways of convincing people for the need to adapt. This needs an Estimated Effort field, as …

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Create Yesterday’s Work Items Today

Apr 8, 2012 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Team Foundation Server 11 has made it even easier to create a work item with a date prior to today. Awesome. So, why would you want to do this? Work with me here … Maybe you are importing …

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TFS2010 Build output to a Custom Folder Structure

Feb 29, 2012 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

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 …

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Team Alerts in Team Foundation Server 11

Feb 10, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Team Alerts are just one of the many new features coming in the next version of Team Foundation Server. They simplify the creation and management of alerts that impact that entire team. For example, …

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A Scrum comparison of the MSF/Agile and Visual Studio Scrum templates

Aug 3, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

While it’s possible for a Scrum team to use the MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 process template to implement Scrum, it makes more sense to use the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template, …

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Professional Scrum Developer Questions asked at TechEd 2011

May 18, 2011 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Q. We are implementing Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) as part of our ISO certification. How does Scrum fit into the ISO world? We are also adopting 3M’s (our parent company) Lean Six Sigma …

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Debugging a Dysfunctional Team

May 18, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

UPDATE (3 June 2011): Watch the recorded presentation on Channel 9. Yesterday I gave a talk at TechEd on Dysfunctional software development teams. We primarily focused on people dysfunctions, but …

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Top 5 Reasons to use VS Database Projects

Dec 10, 2010 • 4 min read • Simon Reindl

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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Upgrading TFS to 2010

Nov 12, 2010 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

At TechEd Europe 2010, I had the privilege to work on the VS2010 Ultimate booth. It was great to meet so many folk, and find out how different people were using TFS and VS2010. One recurring question …

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