In this post, Application Development Manager, Chris Mason discusses the challenge of keeping documentation up to date in this fast moving DevOps world. In addition, he spotlights DocFX and writes a build task extension which integrates it into your build pipeline. Overview We talk a lot about DevOps today and it represents a major strateg...
In this post, Application Development Managers, Sheldon Ledbetter and DeWayla White, share a few of their favorite things about TFS 2017. Thinking about moving to Team Foundation Server 2017? Here are just a few highlights regarding improvements to the latest release: One of the first things you’ll notice is the collection page has been i...
In the latest article on his blog, Premier Developer consultant Ilias Jennane discusses how to scale the Agile software development process for large organizations using Visual Studio Team Services. When the Agile Manifesto was written about 16 years ago, it had a simple goal and that is to uncover better ways of writing software. Source: htt...
Senior Application Development Manager, Robert Shanks, highlights some of the challenges with Agile transformation beyond development teams and spotlights how our team can help. As an Application Development Manager (ADM), I’ve have the opportunity to work with teams at varying stages of their Agile transformation. For the sake of discussion, Ag...
In this post, Premier ADM Mike Lapierre covers techniques to rollback bulk editing changes with TFS test cases. I was assisting a customer recently who was working on many TFS test cases, using Excel for bulk editing. The Excel integration is great for editing regular fields but it can’t handle HTML fields like the description or the test steps...
In a recent post from his blog, Premier ADM Shawn Gaul puts a metaphorical spin on Technical Debt with Steve St. Jean and Marty Donovan. This series demonstrates how a metaphor can be used to change the way you look at this problem and thereby help to understand ways to overcome it. With that change in perspective, we’ll look at ways...
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are a great asset to the VS ALM community, providing important guidance and sharing knowledge from real world experience. Premier Developer’s own Kevin Mack and Steve St. Jean team up with the Rangers to spotlight SonarQube integration and deployment with Azure. Technical Debt is a growing problem for many developmen...
There has been a lot of chatter about the roadmap and direction of Application Insights in relation to HockeyApp. Senior Application Development Manager, Brian Swiger, sums it up. In Summary: App Insights originally shipped with a set of SDKs for mobile platforms that pushed telemetry data into the App Insights pipeline. It is these SDKs th...
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Ilias Jennane explains about navigating through the Dev Ops journey. You have probably started to hear all the noise about DevOps. Most likely you fall into one of the following categories: Regardless of which phase of that journey you’re actually in, there are few pilla...
DevOps promotes the collaboration between developers and other IT stakeholders to optimize software delivery. For many organizations, it’s a challenge for teams to come together with the right mix of priorities and expectations. Application Development Manager, Dave Harrison, shares five of his favorite DevOps books. DevOps as a movement is ga...
