{"id":213,"date":"2014-12-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2014\/12\/17\/a-new-visual-studio-online-and-team-foundation-server-features-timeline\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:05:34","slug":"a-new-visual-studio-online-and-team-foundation-server-features-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/a-new-visual-studio-online-and-team-foundation-server-features-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server Features Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are always working on ways to communicate more effectively with customers about what we have done, what people like and don\u2019t like, what they want, what we\u2019re planning, etc.\u00a0 A year or so ago we added a Features Timeline page<\/a> to our News section<\/a> of visualstudio.com<\/a> as one step in that journey.<\/p>\n

The news section, for VS Online particularly, announces the new features that we\u2019ve deployed each sprint.\u00a0 The Features Timeline then maps those new features to the on-premises TFS release you can find them in.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an example snippet:<\/p>\n

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At the same time, it\u2019s all backward looking \u2013 stuff we\u2019ve already done and how you can get access to it.\u00a0 The best forward looking vehicle we have is UserVoice<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s great for submitting suggestions and voting on others but trickier to get a clear picture of the things we are planning\/working on.\u00a0 Many of the things we do are in UserVoice suggestions but some aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Today we updated our Features Timeline page with a new \u201cFeatures under development<\/a>\u201d section.\u00a0 The purpose of this section is to give you insight into some of the things we are working on.\u00a0 It is not, by any means, exhaustive \u2013 particularly not initially, but it provides a really nice, concise view of some of our key investments with links to UserVoice items, blog posts, etc to learn more about what the improvement actually is and provides you opportunities to comment before we even ship it.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a snapshot as I\u2019m writing this post.\u00a0 I suspect it will be different by the time you read this, as we hope to update it frequently.<\/p>\n

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In addition to providing you information about what we are working on, we are also trying to give some idea of when to expect it.\u00a0 The left hand column shows the rough timeframe that it will be available on VS Online.\u00a0 The right most column shows the TFS on-premises release we expect the feature in.\u00a0 We\u2019ll use TBD when we don\u2019t have enough confidence to give a timeframe yet.\u00a0 And \u201c\u2014\u201c means not relevant to that release vehicle \u2013 either because it\u2019s already available (Process Template customization in TFS is a good example) or because it won\u2019t be in the release vehicle (ISO 27001 certification for TFS, for example).<\/p>\n

Of course, one of the risks in doing this is plans change.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure the day will come when we decide to cancel something we\u2019ve been working on \u2013 or simply change the delivery timeframe.\u00a0 I\u2019ll ask that you bear with us when that happens.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t yet figured out how we\u2019ll communicate those changes but, the first time it happens, we\u2019ll figure out a way.<\/p>\n

Hopefully you find this to be useful information.\u00a0 As we\u2019re just starting to experiment with this, I certainly appreciate any feedback you have on how we could make it better.<\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/p>\n

Brian<\/p>\n

P.S. we are also considering doing something similar for Visual Studio but we decided to start experimenting with VS Online and TFS first.\u00a0 If that goes well, we may do it for VS as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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