{"id":3561,"date":"2011-12-08T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2011\/12\/08\/december-refresh-of-the-team-foundation-service\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T13:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:22:01","slug":"december-refresh-of-the-team-foundation-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/december-refresh-of-the-team-foundation-service\/","title":{"rendered":"December refresh of the Team Foundation Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we are updating the Team Foundation Service<\/a> (running on Azure) with a new build.\u00a0 You can read more about the features in the new update on the Visual Studio ALM blog<\/a>.\u00a0 The process of updating all of the accounts is ongoing as I type this.\u00a0 It will take most of the day and maybe into tomorrow to finish updating them all.\u00a0 In the meantime, you\u2019ll see much of the new UI but if your account hasn\u2019t yet been updated, you won\u2019t see all the features.<\/p>\n

We started the service in April of this year and ran a private pilot program for several months.\u00a0 Then, at the BUILD conference in September, we announced it and made available a bunch of registration codes for people to try it out.\u00a0 Since then the service has continued to grow.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been giving out new registration codes at conferences (I gave out several hundred in Europe over the last couple of weeks) and people have been sharing the \u201csocial codes\u201d they get when they sign up for an account.<\/p>\n

All in all, the feedback has been good \u2013 meaning both that people seem to like it and that they have good ideas on how we can improve it.\u00a0 As part of transitioning from just building an on premises product to also building a cloud service, we\u2019ve been changing the way we think about developing and releasing software.\u00a0 Since the build conference, we\u2019ve managed to get to a cadence of weekly updates to the service.\u00a0 For now these updates are just bug fixes and operational improvements but it\u2019s significant that we\u2019ve gotten the development, QA and release cycle down to updating every week.\u00a0 Our larger updates, like this one, are less frequent.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been updating the service about every 3 months since we launched it in April with significant new feature work.<\/p>\n

Of course, \u201csignificant\u201d takes on a different meaning when you are talking about a few month\u2019s worth of work rather than a couple of years \"Image<\/a>.\u00a0 We are now trying to transition our \u201cmajor\u201d update cycle to monthly.\u00a0 I won\u2019t promise that we\u2019ll have major new features every month but we\u2019re going to try to move to a cadence where we have new features show up in more months than not.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see.\u00a0 This whole exercise is a bit of a learning experience for us and it\u2019s been both fun and exciting.\u00a0 At the last couple of conferences I\u2019ve spoken at, I\u2019ve started to share some of our learnings from moving to delivering a service.\u00a0 Sometime in the next few weeks I\u2019ll try to write up a blog post about it.<\/p>\n

By tomorrow afternoon I\u2019ll be posting another registration code that new people can use to get an account.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

As always, we look forward to your feedback.<\/p>\n

Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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