May 18, 2011
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Visual Studio ALM at Microsoft TechEd 2011
Lots of exciting stuff, so check out the session videos on Channel 9:
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Apr 18, 2011
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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 the ef...
Apr 6, 2011
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Visual Studio ALM Hands-On Labs
The Developer & Platform Evangelism group recently published the following ALM hands-on labs as part of the Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 training course (click to download) on MSDN:
Mar 15, 2011
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VS ALM March 2011 Library Updates and New VS SP1 Content
This month's continuous publishing release of the MSDN Library includes content for the release of VS 2010 SP1.VS2010 SP1Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 has been released. In this release we addressed some of the most requested features and top voted issues from our customers. Library UpdatesWe've also continued to work on VSALM content that ...
Mar 7, 2011
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Live Meeting events about the ALM tools in Visual Studio
Microsoft UK is hosting a free Live Meeting event series about the following topics: and many other events through June. For more details, click here.
Feb 21, 2011
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How do You Prioritize Content Work? Here’s What We Did for Team Foundation Content
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 story....
Feb 16, 2011
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Want to better understand relationships between Team Foundation Server work items?
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:
Feb 15, 2011
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The Content Backlog for Team Foundation: It’s About What the Developer Does, not What the Product Does
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 thinking d...
Feb 7, 2011
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Creating a Backlog of Content Work
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 pink sa...
Feb 3, 2011
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VS ALM Library Updates on MSDN for January, 2011
Even though it's February. But it is a new year, and this one is going to be different. For example, yesterday:What does this have to do with MSDN Library updates? Nothing, really; we just don't get to make these comparisons very often. What is new in the MSDN VS ALM Library:Team Foundation Administration: Planning and Tracking Proj...