{"id":10904,"date":"2008-09-26T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2008\/09\/26\/vsts-demos\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:22:30","slug":"vsts-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/vsts-demos\/","title":{"rendered":"VSTS Demos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking a lot lately about how to demonstrate the value of what we are doing in our Rosario release.&nbsp; There is so much and there are so many ways to talk about it.&nbsp; The first idea I stumbled across was what I call &#8220;Wow!&#8221; demos.&nbsp; The goal would be to create a set of demos that show how Team System enables people to solve a really hard problem that lots of people face.&nbsp; They would not be &#8220;feature&#8221; focused demos.&nbsp; They would focus on the problem and the solution and cut across any feature areas that are involved.&nbsp; By design they would not show every feature of the product (after all, there are plenty of features that don&#8217;t make people say &#8220;Wow!&#8221; when they see them).&nbsp; I imagine creating 3-5 minute demos that highlight the value (and I&#8217;ve sketched out an initial draft of a set of demos).\nThe more I thought about it though, the more I realized that there&#8217;s a need for more than this.&nbsp; Because, to accomplish what I&#8217;m trying to get, you can&#8217;t show features deeply.&nbsp; So I stepped back to create a broader taxonomy of demos and came up with this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wow! Demos &#8211; described above<\/li>\n<li>Feature Demos &#8211; depth demos in particular feature areas that particularly enable to you see the differences between the new version and the previous version.&nbsp; They demonstrate the full capability of features.<\/li>\n<li>How To Demos &#8211; tackle the problem of taking the myriad of scenarios and show step by step how to do each one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I was presenting this taxonomy in a team discussion the other day and someone pointed out that we already have tons of &#8220;How To&#8221; demos.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve just been purusing them and they look pretty good so I wanted to share them.\nThere are a ton of videos on a &#8220;How do I&#8221; <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vsts2008\/bb507749.aspx?wt.slv=topsectionsee\">page<\/a> on MSDN.\nThere is a new phenomenon called &#8220;<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotfs.com\/\">Radio TFS<\/a>&#8221; with some really great drilldowns, demos and interviews.\nThe team is now working on demos in all 3 categories and I hope to start posting them in the coming weeks.&nbsp; That along with a CTP update so you can try it out yourself will make for a terrific way to see what&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking a lot lately about how to demonstrate the value of what we are doing in our Rosario release.&nbsp; There is so much and there are so many ways to talk about it.&nbsp; The first idea I stumbled across was what I call &#8220;Wow!&#8221; demos.&nbsp; The goal would be to create a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-10904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I have been thinking a lot lately about how to demonstrate the value of what we are doing in our Rosario release.&nbsp; There is so much and there are so many ways to talk about it.&nbsp; The first idea I stumbled across was what I call &#8220;Wow!&#8221; demos.&nbsp; The goal would be to create a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}