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Team Foundation Service Preview – Get Started with Agile Planning Tools

UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. **  This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. Here we walk quickly through the entire cycle of Agile planning: Create a backlog, plan a sprint, set capacity for your team, and ...

Northwest Cadence ALM Presentations on Agile Development using Visual Studio ALM–all over the USA!

Steve Borg, Martin Hinshelwood and the boys at Northwest Cadence are going to have their name from Northwest Cadence if they keep doing all these free presentations all over the US!As I have said before these two MVPs are the best ALM trainers on the planet and the fact you can get their classes free is a phenomenal value!(image) In - Person ...

What’s New in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview

This post provides an overview of most (but I don't promise ALL!) of the new tools, features, and enhancements available in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: For a tutorial that illustrates several of these new features by following a fictitious team as they incrementally adopt Visual Studio as its ...

Getting Feedback on Working Software with Visual Studio 11

How often have you built the software that your users asked for, but not necessarily what they wanted? One of the determining factors between success and failure of software projects is getting the right feedback, at the right time, from the right individuals. In Microsoft Visual Studio 11, we have enabled feedback deeply throughout the ...

Installing the Advanced Configuration of TFS 11 from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim

I am posting walkthroughs of the the various TFS install wizards for the upcoming version of TFS previewed at the BUILD Conference in Anaheim this week. Installation of TFS 11 is very similar to installation of TFS 2010. You can use the install guide for TFS 2010 to review the current guidelines for install. And you can find the late breaking ...

Learning about the Team Foundation Service Preview

UPDATE Feb 16 2012: All the videos referenced in this blog post have been re-recorded with the latest version of Team Foundation Service Preview. While the links remain the same, the videos pointed to by those links have been updated in-place.   As you may have read by now, today is an exciting day.  At the BUILD conference we just ...

VS ALM Library Updates on MSDN for June 2010

Well the days are getting shorter, there's a nip in the air, and the clouds are building up again. But oh what a summer it was! Last Tuesday, if I remember correctly. However, we didn't let all those hours on the beach keep us from updating the ALM Library. Here are the results. Manual Configuration of MOSS 2010 for TFS 2010 ...

VS ALM Library Updates on MSDN for April 2011

Normally, I use this space to discuss the important stuff: me, and the weather in the Pacific Northwest. But not this time. This time it's all about the writers. They are all fine people. Even though, except for one glorious day last Saturday, it has only been above 55 degrees twice since Febuary 1, and no one seems to understand ...