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September pricing and licensing changes

September 1, 2015 Sep 1, 2015 09/1/15
Brian Harry
I want to update you all on the pricing and licensing changes we’ve been working on over the past year.VS Online Basic usersThe new, less expensive, tiered pricing model I announced a couple of months ago goes into effect Sept 1st (today).  In addition, we are finalizing the licensing documents to include an on-prem TFS CAL with ...

VS Online/TFS Feature timeline – the UserVoice version

August 28, 2015 Aug 28, 2015 08/28/15
Brian Harry
As a follow up to my post yesterday on the Feature timeline refresh, I took a few minutes this morning to walk through our UserVoice site and summarize how the work we are planning over the next several months relates.  This is a different granularity cut (because it’s based on UV suggestions) that what I published yesterday. I’m not...

Features timeline refresh

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15
Brian Harry
With the TFS 2015 release behind us and a lot of planning for our next phase of work completed, it’s time to do a major refresh of our Visual Studio Online Features Timeline.  If you aren’t familiar with this page, I encourage you to check it out.  It not only gives you a peek ahead to things we’re working on, it ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 26th

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15
Brian Harry
This week we are rolling out our sprint 87 work.  Nothing earth shattering this sprint but some nice project management improvements.  Also we’ve added first class SonarQube support now with custom tasks for executing SonarQube and publishing the results for your build.  You can read more on this week’s VSO release ...

SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS available for Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN subscribers

August 12, 2015 Aug 12, 2015 08/12/15
Brian Harry
Managing requirements is an incredibly important part of the software development process for everyone.  Different teams approach the problem very differently – from very lightweight/informal ways to very formal and documented ways.  The needs of your business and the culture of your organization will determine what’s ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 7th

August 10, 2015 Aug 10, 2015 08/10/15
Brian Harry
This week we are rolling out our Sprint 86 work.  You can read details on the VSO release notes.  Included is the next set of work to improve our Agile planning experiences and availability of a NuGet package for our TFS/VSO SDK.  The NuGet package is a big step forward in making it easier to work with.  You no longer have ...

Included CALs and Tiered Pricing

July 27, 2015 Jul 27, 2015 07/27/15
Brian Harry
I have to say that when I wrote my post last week on TFS and VSO related licensing and packaging changes, I didn’t think I’d be writing another one quite so soon.  But I found out that we’re disclosing the next set of changes this week to help people plan, even though they don’t go into effect for another month. ...

Self forming teams at scale

July 24, 2015 Jul 24, 2015 07/24/15
Brian Harry
I want to share with you all a strange thing that we do.  It’s unorthodox but has been very successful for us. Teams change.  People come.  People go.  People move around.  Reorgs happen.  This is a fact of life, particularly in any large organization, and something managers spend a fair amount of time on – ...

Visual Studio Online Update – July 17

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Brian Harry
I told you a week or so ago it would come quickly :)  We’re deploying our Sprint 85 work now.  As always, it will take a few days for it to make it across the entirety of the service. You can find the details on the new capabilities in the release notes. I think you’ll be pleased to see a whole bunch of new Agile planning ...

Visual Studio Online Update – July 7

July 13, 2015 Jul 13, 2015 07/13/15
Brian Harry
I’m a bit late on this post.  It’s been a busy week of travel. Last week we began deploying our sprint 84 release.  Because of the logistics around finalizing our TFS 2015 release, it was delayed a bit.  Sprint 83 is actually the last sprint that went into TFS 2015 RTM and we wanted to keep it live on the service ...