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February 2011 - Azure DevOps Blog

Samples that extend UML diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

February 25, 2011 Feb 25, 2011 02/25/11
Esther Fan
Alan Wills has created several samples that let you extend UML diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate in the following ways: Link model elements to diagrams, files, and other items Color classes based on their stereotype Align shapes on a diagram Draw bidirectional associations and omit empty Operations sections on ...

How do You Prioritize Content Work? Here’s What We Did for Team Foundation Content

February 21, 2011 Feb 21, 2011 02/21/11
Allen Clark
Once we identified most of the items (stories) in our backlog, we started to prioritize them. In our first pass, we adapted a technique that Mike Cohn teaches called Theme Scoring . I say adapted because we didn't identify a small number of themes and rank them using this technique. Rather, we identified our criteria and applied that to each ...

Want to better understand relationships between Team Foundation Server work items?

February 16, 2011 Feb 16, 2011 02/16/11
Esther Fan
You can create a dependency (DGML) graph to see links between work items by using the Work Item Visualizer available on MSDN Code Gallery for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. This tool can help you: Analyze the hierarchy of your work items more easily. Perform basic risk/impact analysis when creating or editing work items. ...

The Content Backlog for Team Foundation: It’s About What the Developer Does, not What the Product Does

February 15, 2011 Feb 15, 2011 02/15/11
Allen Clark
In the past, we managed our work by defining the topics that we need to write, and then estimating and prioritizing the work to write those topics. Before VS2010, that worked really well. We documented the features that the product team created. As they created new features, we added topics to the backlog. However, for VS2010, we started ...

Creating a Backlog of Content Work

February 7, 2011 Feb 7, 2011 02/7/11
Allen Clark
I have posted a couple of series on how we plan content work for Team Foundation, one in 2007 Planning the Sprint Tracking Work Items Reporting Status and the other in 2009. How we Track Content Work Managing Technical Reviews in TFS and SharePoint Reporting Progress Well, it's an odd year. That means the ...