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 …
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Tagging Team System Work Items
I expect some people to see this and say, “Hey, that’s clever.” I know that others will read this and think, “What a hack.”
Whichever side you fall on, there is little …
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 →Because of the decentralized control model of Agile software development methodologies, there is a living debate on the role of a Product Owner, particularly in Scrum which defines the term. Here are …
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 …
Read more →Having just inherited a TFS installation to manage, I received a request to add some values to a global list. I got a little nervous about this when I saw that the server had many (MANY) global lists …
Read more →Team System just made the keynote demo
10:35 AM (Los Angeles)
A fictitious developer, from the fictitious company "Fourth Coffee" is demonstrating the new, agile development features in Visual Studio 2008. She's showing off how to manage …
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