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?
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 …
Read more →Implementing Scrum Using Visual Studio 2012
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 …
Read more →Which Scrum Team member should set PBI and Bug work item states?
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 …
Read more →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 …
Read more →Create Yesterday’s Work Items Today
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 …
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 →Team Alerts in Team Foundation Server 11
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, …
Read more →A Scrum comparison of the MSF/Agile and Visual Studio Scrum templates
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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