A Naming Convention for Test Cases
A single PBI with five acceptance criteria can produce five or more Test Case work items. Multiply that across a forecast of eight PBIs and you're staring at 40-some test cases in a Sprint. Without a …
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Shared Queries Every Scrum Team Should Create
Work item queries are one of the most underused features in Azure Boards. They let you view, filter, and sort your work so you can decide what to act on, and they can power charts on dashboards and …
Read more →TFS 2013 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) fails with %TFSServerURLValidated% error
Earlier this week I installed the Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools and went to run a BPA scan. It finished very quickly, giving me a couple of strange %TFSServerURLValidated% messages … …
Read more →I have just finished delivering a Team Foundation Course today, and we had some great discussions around TFS Administration, upgrading, adoption etc.
As usual, there is a whole pile of questions that …
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 →Upgrade TFS 2005 to TFS11 Beta
This is one journey to upgrade TFS 2005 to TFS11
Key points if you are in a hurry You only get one chance at the upgrade, on the initial install. You need to do this as two upgrades TFS2005 –> …
Read more →Scrum Power of 3 imbalance – Scrum Master as Product Owner
The question was recently posed to me – What conflicts occur if the Scrum Master is also the Product Owner? This can be seen as a workaround for not getting a dedicated Product Owner, which is …
Read more →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 …
Read more →New Scrum one pager by the VS ALM Rangers
The Rangers have published an update to the quick reference stack, and one of my favourites is the Scrum chart. Download the full pack here.
The pack is broken down by headings
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Planning …
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