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Correspondents have asked how we determine the order of listings for our monthly updates. The answer, as always, is cookies. Here are the updates for May: Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, SQL Server Building the Application Team Explorer Everywhere Team Foundation Server and Project Server Integration Feature Pack You ...

The right side of our blog now features Facebook and LinkedIn communities that focus on VS ALM and Team Foundation Server where you can find news, discussion, and other useful content. I also added other resources and a list of blogs about VS ALM and Team Foundation Server.

Lots of exciting stuff, so check out the session videos on Channel 9:    

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...

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:                     

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 ...

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.   

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....

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:

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...