Tag: Tools

We Open Sourced Our Digital.ai Agility to Azure DevOps Migrator

Aug 7, 2026 • 5 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If your organization is still tracking work in Digital.ai Agility, formerly VersionOne, and you have decided to move to Azure DevOps, the decision was the easy part. The migration is where it gets …

Azure DevOps Azure Boards Tools MVP

Can You Automate Copyright Registration From an Azure Pipeline?

Jun 26, 2026 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Short answer: not the whole thing, and you shouldn't want to. You can automate the tedious, deterministic part of registering your source code with the U.S. Copyright Office, but the filing itself …

Azure DevOps Development Tools WhoOwnsTheCode

Marketplace Extensions Worth Installing on Day One

May 13, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The Azure DevOps Marketplace boasts more than 1,200 extensions across all the services. That's a lot to wade through, and most teams either ignore it entirely or install a dozen shiny things they …

Azure DevOps Tools Scrum

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 …

Scrum Tools Azure Boards

Migrating Areas and Iterations from TFS2008 to TFS2010

Feb 14, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I ran into a migration today where the client had scores of Area nodes in their TFS 2008 team project that they wanted migrated over to their new TFS 2010 team project. My usual "Well, if you …

TFS Tools

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 …

Development SQL Server Tools Visual Studio ALM Azure Boards Azure Test Plans Testing

Team Foundation Build and FinalBuilder

Nov 29, 2008 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When looking at FinalBuilder and Team Foundation Build side by side, the obvious breakdown in features and advantages looks like this. <li>Team Foundation Build provides a complete build …

TFS Visual Studio Tools Testing

Version Control with 2008 SP1

Jun 25, 2008 • 1 min read • David Starr

I am a simple man. All I ever wanted was drag and drop for source control. That folder chooser dialog was a bear. Now we will get it with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Thank goodness. From the web site: …

Tools Development Visual Studio ALM

Are you aware of Aware Server?

Jan 24, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last week I had a chance to meet some of the brains behind gridGISTICS - a .NET development company in Atlanta that gets it. Not only are they up to speed on the latest .NET 3.x technologies, but they …

Visual Studio Tools Development