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The Forgotten Roles in an Agile Transformation

October 9, 2017 Oct 9, 2017 10/9/17

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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

October 4, 2017 Oct 4, 2017 10/4/17

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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?

August 28, 2017 Aug 28, 2017 08/28/17

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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

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17

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This post is from Senior App Dev Manager, Chev Bryan who shares how to estimate the size of your TFS database backup files.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 get you ...

Migrating TFS to a new data center

August 8, 2017 Aug 8, 2017 08/8/17

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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

July 2, 2017 Jul 2, 2017 07/2/17

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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

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17

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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.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 security ...

TFS automation – User management

May 27, 2017 May 27, 2017 05/27/17

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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...

Monitoring, and Why It Should Come First In Your DevOps Strategy!

May 20, 2017 May 20, 2017 05/20/17

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Senior Application Development Manager, Dave Harrison, spotlights the importance of instrumentation and metrics as the backbone of your DevOps movement. Monitoring has long been the secret sauce of DevOps. How else do we get feedback on our priorities, and actual metrics – not guesses – on which features are in use? What’s often ...

Using web.config transforms and Release Manager – TFS 2017/Team Services edition

April 28, 2017 Apr 28, 2017 04/28/17

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Senior Application Development Manager, Marcelo Silva, previously posted on Using Web.Config transforms and Release Manager. That post was done on TFS 2015 and using the now “old” architecture of Release Management. This post will follow the same idea of deploying an application to Azure (App Service), but this time using Visual ...

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