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How do You Prioritize Content Work? Here’s What We Did for Team Foundation Content

February 21, 2011 Feb 21, 2011 02/21/11
Allen Clark
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 ...

The Content Backlog for Team Foundation: It’s About What the Developer Does, not What the Product Does

February 15, 2011 Feb 15, 2011 02/15/11
Allen Clark
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 ...

Creating a Backlog of Content Work

February 7, 2011 Feb 7, 2011 02/7/11
Allen Clark
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 ...

VS ALM Library Updates on MSDN for January, 2011

February 3, 2011 Feb 3, 2011 02/3/11
Patrick-MSFT
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...

Significant Changes Made to Streamline the Content for Work Item Type Schema Reference

January 24, 2011 Jan 24, 2011 01/24/11
Kathryn Elliott
A move has been afoot to eliminate topics that no one is reading anyway. By consolidating content into a smaller topic set, we believe that you will more easily access the information that supports you in accomplishing your tasks. In the area of defining and customizing the definitions of work item types, this initiative has represented a...

Use schemas to edit work item types and process templates for Visual Studio Team Foundation

January 14, 2011 Jan 14, 2011 01/14/11
Esther Fan
Allen Clark has just blogged about making these schema files available on Code Gallery. You can drop the schema files in the Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 10.0XmlSchemas folder, and Visual Studio will validate your work item types or process template files using the appropriate schema. For more information, see ...

Using the Schemas to Edit Work Item Types and Process Templates for Team Foundation in Visual Studio

January 13, 2011 Jan 13, 2011 01/13/11
Allen Clark
I've just posted the Team Foundation schema files for process templates and work item types on Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/TFSchemas/Wiki/View.aspx?id=25933 . You can drop the schema files in Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 10.0XmlSchemas and Visual Studio will validate your work item types or process template files ...