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The Forgotten Roles in an Agile Transformation

This post is provided by App Dev Manager Tuan Nguyen who spotlights the importance of Agile roles and contributions across the business.Most of the organizations I have been involved with that adopted Agile tend to treat non-developers as an afterthought. This is not surprising as Agile is usually driven by the IT department but it can be ...

Publishing and Managing your NPM Packages with VSTS

This post is provided by App Dev Manager, Andrew Kanieski who walks us though publishing and managing NPM packages with VSTS.Writing packages in the javascript world historically has been troublesome. The javascript community has been challenged with shifting and numerous standards for package development. In recent years the introduction of ...

Agile work in progress tracking: Are we there yet?

In this post, Premier Developer consultant Ilias Jennane explains Agile Work in Progress Tracking. In almost every engagement I have with customers seeking guidance on how to effectively run an Agile development shop, the question of work in progress tracking comes up. However, the question comes in different “flavors”, often ...

How to estimate the size of your TFS database backup files

This post is from Senior App Dev Manager, Chev Bryan who shares how to estimate the size of your TFS database backup files.(image) The most likely way to do this in my experience is to take a look at the most recent backup job. This can be done quite easily from a T-SQL script. Feel free to refine the bellow to suite your needs, but it should ...

Migrating TFS to a new data center

This post is provided by App Dev Manager, Steve Keeler who outlines an approach for performing TFS migrations to a new data center in a different domain and where there is limited or no connectivity between the current and target environments. Applies to: TFS 2013 | TFS 2015 | TFS 2017 - This article outlines an approach for performing ...

Closing the gap between TFS and Scrum

This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Alexei Govorine who covers the use of scrum with TFS and spotlights TFS Version Control, Dashboards, and Markdown.IntroductionScrum is one of the most used agile frameworks that helps people address complex problems while delivering products of the highest possible value. For additional ...

VSTS Private Agents with ARM

This post is provided by App Dev Managers, Mariusz Kolodziej and Francis Lacroix who discuss how to automagically deploy a VSTS Private Agent with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and some PowerShell.(image) My customers love to use VSTS to enable their DevOps capabilities, but in some cases they are not able to use the Hosted Agents due to ...

TFS automation – User management

In this post, Sr. Application Development Manager, Nandu Muralidharan introduces the TFS API set to help automate administrative tasks associated with managing users in Team Foundation Server. He also shares a set of helper components that he authored to assist developers in this space.   You can check out Nandu’s blog here. This is...