Joseph Bourne

Hosted Pipelines Announcements: VS 2019, Mojave, and more

February 27th, 2019

Hosted Agents in Azure Pipelines are getting a Windows Server 2019 image with VS 2019 installed, macOS agents are upgrading to Mojave (OS X 10.14), and we share a few upcoming road map items!

November extensions round-up: Actionable Insights for Agile teams and a widget for easy access to all teams in your project

December 1st, 2017

The round-up is back for November! I'm sorry for not posting in October. My wife and I welcomed our second child, a girl, into the world. I was at home spending time with them because they grow up so fast :) But now I'm back, and some really exciting extensions went live in the Marketplace this month. RippleRock, has entered the Marketplace w

Chef brings Habitat to VSTS, and Agile Extensions makes editing your backlog a breeze

September 29th, 2017

This month I have two extensions that I am excited about. Chef, who earlier this year released their core set of CI/CD tasks for working with Chef, is adding a new extension that connects VSTS with their app & container automation system, Habitat. Agile Extensions is also making an early splash in the Marketplace with the newest awesome ad

Amazon AWS and new NDepend pricing plans in August’s VSTS extension round-up

August 31st, 2017

Since the creation of the Marketplace, we have seen strong demand for tools to work with Amazon Web Services. I am so thrilled that this month the search for those tools comes to an end. In addition to Amazon releasing their AWS Tools, our partners at NDepend have recently lowered the prices on their static analysis tools for .NET code. This i

Human readable tests and build chaining in July’s VSTS extension round-up

July 31st, 2017

Our community of publishers continues to grow and the contributions they're making are great. This month I've got an extension for chaining build definitions together, and another that was written because people were searching for it in the Marketplace. SpecFlow+LivingDoc See it in the Marketplace here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.co

See the big picture with ProductPlan, and drag & drop your work items to plan your sprints with Sprint Drop Plan calendar in the June Team Services Extensions Round-up

June 30th, 2017

This month I've got two extensions to enhance how you plan. Whether you're sharing a product roadmap with partners, or planning a sprint for your engineering team, the Marketplace continues to have you covered. ProductPlan I am a big fan of communicating the big picture to my team and partners. It helps align everyone to the team goals an

Turn your infrastructure into code with Chef, and update your Assembly information with May’s Team Services Extensions Roundup

May 31st, 2017

May is coming to a close, and we've had more Team Services accounts installing extensions than any month since we launched the Marketplace. The ecosystem momentum we've seen this year is strong, and there are still so many exciting integration opportunities out there to go enable. For this roundup I've got two great extensions, and to start us

Team Services Extensions Roundup – April

April 30th, 2017

A 6 month high of 30 new Visual Studio Team Services extensions got added to the Marketplace in April. It was really hard to only pick two from such a big set so I encourage everyone to check them all out on the 'Recently Added' section of our Marketplace. There are two extensions I want to highlight this month. One is from a well known Visual

Team Services Extensions Roundup – March

March 31st, 2017

February didn’t hold the title of best month on record long – it’s already passed that title to March! A huge thanks to our publishers and customers who continue to grow the ecosystem of extensions around Team Services. This month I've got extensions in our Agile and Work Item space that are pretty new and really great. SpecMap See

Team Services February Extensions Roundup

February 28th, 2017

February is coming to a close and it has been the best month on record for the Team Services Extension ecosystem. We've set new records for customer installs and our community of publishers continues to grow. One of my favorite parts of this job is the relationship I get to build with our publishers. Seeing their investment in the platform a