Last month I wrote a post describing a cool, streamlined, web based Agile project management solution we are building. Over the next week or so I’m going to write a series of posts covering another area we’ve been working on. We call the scenario “Developers are Raving Fans”. In the 2010 release of Team Foundatio...
stpSoft recently released additional support for Team Foundation Server with their Requirements Definer product. Check it out here: http://www.stpsoft.co.uk/definer/index.html. And make sure to watch the videos - they do a good job of showing the flow from creating a user story through flow definition, requirements, test cases, storyboa...
A while ago we got some feedback from customers that something about our licensing of Team Foundation Server’s use of SQL under an MSDN subscription didn’t make sense. We’ve just fixed it. Let me start by explaining status quo. When you purchase TFS, you get a license to use SQLServer Standard Edition along with your TFS (bu...
Mike Fourie just published a bunch of workflow activities/actions for TFS builds. It’s a great set of extensions that makes TFS builds even more powerful with less work. You can get them on CodePlex here: http://tfsbuildextensions.codeplex.com/releases/view/67138 Check them out… Brian
I’m criminally late in blogging about this and for that I apologize. Several months ago, the Microsoft platform evangelism team came to me and said they wanted to create a really good OData sample that would show people all the stuff you can do with OData and how easy it is. They told me that they thought creating an OData ...
If you follow my blog, you know that I talk a lot about collaboration and the impact it has on the success or failure of modern software projects. In a recent post on Agile Project Management, I closed with a brief mention about feedback loops being a major initiative for us in our next release. Here I want to expand on that a bit. Let’s look ...
When we first started designing Team Foundation Server, one of our mantras was “Your process, our process or no process”. What we meant by this was that TFS can play an important role in helping you automate your development process. Many teams already have a well establish process and aren’t particularly interested in changing it. TFS can be co...
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about some announcements we made at TechEd on the next version of Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management. We did a pretty good overview demo and released a white paper that gave a pretty good overview of the work we are doing. It was not, by any means, complete. There’s a lot of stuff...
Last week, we released a cumulative update for TFS 2010 SP1. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=bca68e8d-4612-48cd-9418-1b973d41073f. The KB article is in the process of being published and should be available soon. *UPDATE* - This update prereqs SP1 and should be installed on TFS applicatio...
It’s been a looong time since I published a detailed look at TFS dogfooding. I used to do them every month but then the server got so big and the reports monotonous enough that I decided to stop. I’ve had a number of queries about it in the past few months, so I figured it was time to do an update. I’ll start by talking about DevDiv. It’s mor...
