Brian Harry's Blog

Second annual Team System Conference in Germany

April 6, 2009 Apr 6, 2009 04/6/09

Brian Harry

Last year's German Team System conference was a big hit so the new tradition is continuing.  This year's conference will be May 5-7th.  The conference will include keynotes for prominent people in the industry, case studies from other companies (so you can learn from both their successes and their failures) and sessions on how to put...

ALM Catalyst workshops

April 6, 2009 Apr 6, 2009 04/6/09

Brian Harry

During the months of April, May and June, we are running a series of workshops on Application Lifecyle Management with Team system.  These workshops are not just about how to use the tools but ideas for improving your software development process.  There are four 2 hour workshops and each are offered about 4 times per month...

Another use for TFS Work Item Tracking

April 1, 2009 Apr 1, 2009 04/1/09

Brian Harry

Our user education (documentation) team recently changed the tooling and process for tracking documentation reviews.  They have a fairly daunting requirement to track reviews of hundreds of topics by dozens of people against a rigorous schedule.  We used to have a purpose build documentation review tool but no one ever liked it. ...