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Scaled Agile Framework: Visual Studio Online process template updates

May 15, 2015 May 15, 2015 05/15/15
Gregg Boer
We are very excited to provide built-in support for the Scale Agile Framework using our existing Scrum, Agile, and CMMI templates. Some time ago, we published a whitepaper: Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs, which detailed how to use TFS to support SAFe practices. In support of that ...

Visual Studio Online Process Customization

May 4, 2015 May 4, 2015 05/4/15
Aaron Bjork
It's been a long time coming, but I'm excited to let you know that process customization for Visual Studio Online (VSO) is right around the corner. In this post I want to take a few minutes to explain our roadmap and what you can expect over the next few months. Private Preview We’ve heard loud and clear that customers desire ...

Agile project management futures…

January 21, 2015 Jan 21, 2015 01/21/15
Aaron Bjork
UPDATED: Jun 12, 2015 Well, we've almost made it through everything I originally put into this post.  The Kanban metrics are the one things we're still waiting on.  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UPDATED: Mar 11, 2015 Back with another update as we knocked a few more items...

Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs whitepaper

September 11, 2014 Sep 11, 2014 09/11/14
Gregg Boer
EDITED: 6/20/2018. See below. We are pleased to publish the following whitepaper: Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs. The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, is gaining popularity among organizations looking to scale Agile practices to the enterprise level. SAFe is a comprehensive framework...

Microsoft’s journey to Cloud Cadence

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14
Importer
Last week the Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer keynoted the Agile 2014 Conference.  In his presentation he went through our teams changes/learning's to adopt a DevOps workflow.  Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend as we had several conferences here in Redmond/Seattle but luckily we can check it out online here: ...

Sample Chapter: “Scrum, Agile Practices, and Visual Studio” from the book “Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Edition 3”

March 3, 2014 Mar 3, 2014 03/3/14
Importer
I am lucky enough to get to work with the authors of, Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback,  Sam Guckenheimer and Neno Loje on a regular basis. So when they mentioned the possibility of posting on the ALM Blog one of their chapters as a sample I instantly said YES!!  Unfortunately getting back and ...