A Primer on ALM in the Microsoft Stack
By now I you’ve likely heard the term ALM. For the uninitiated, here is the latest from Wikipedia.
Application lifecycle management (ALM) regards the process of delivering software as a …
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Visual Studio Team System Announcements today
Microsoft published more information today about Visual Studio 10 and .NET 4.0. Click here to read the Press Pass and here to read some additional information.
Oh, and for SA customers, some really …
Read more →Team Foundation Server for Microsoft Access developers
I was invited by INETA to speak at the Pacific Northwest Access Developer Group (a.ka. the Seattle Access Group). Now, Access developers are typically "teams of one", but I thought that any team …
Read more →Shelving is the June Cleaver of TFS Source Control
Ever notice that no matter what shenanigans Beaver would get into, June always believed everything was fine? No matter how many scotches Ward had after dinner, there was no problem, according to …
Read more →Microsoft joins Object Management Group (OMG)
Last week, Microsoft announced that they had joined the Object Management Group. OMG is the consortium responsible for many distributed, and object-oriented specifications. One of their sets of …
Read more →I'm sitting through the two-day Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Developers Conference this week and Rico Mariani gave his roadmap to Visual Studio extensibility. Here are some highlights of the …
Read more →VSTS Profiler Improvements in SP1
As you know, Visual Studio 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1 was released earlier this month. Most of SP1 was about bug fixes and performance, but it seems that the profiler team …
Read more →Kathleen Dollard in Boise tonight
Wow, two great speakers in less than a month. Last month, we had Kalen Delaney speaking at Boise's inaugural SQL Server User Group and tonight at the Idaho .NET User Group, Kathleen Dollard an INETA …
Read more →While at TechEd 2008 earlier this month I attended a presentation by Colin Bird where, among other things, he presented the next generation of the Conchango Scrum For Team System process template. …
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