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Capacity vs. Velocity: My team just completed a discussion - at times a rather passionate discussion - about what work items we should be tracking in TFS. Sanjeev , our PM, argued in favor of tracking everything we do - except meetings. I, lead dev and agile purist that I am, Read More...
Posted 03 April 07 04:11 by aridle | 4 Comments
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VSTS Guidance: A few years ago, patterns & practices published a book entitled Team Development with Visual Studio .NET and Visual SourceSafe . The book offered solid advice for teams developing software atop .NET using Visual Studio and Visual SourceSafe. It covered Read More...
Posted 30 March 07 10:35 by aridle | 2 Comments
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Team System Roadmap: Also announced recently, for those who missed it, was our Team System Future Releases Roadmap . The roadmap contains detailed information about the upcoming Visual Studio Orcas release, as well as a high level discussion of Rosario (the Team System release Read More...
Posted 28 March 07 11:46 by aridle | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Acquires TeamPlain: In case you missed it, Microsoft announced this week the acquisition of DevBiz Business Solutions, makers of TeamPlain Web Access for Team System. Brian Harry has all the details . The best part? Existing Team Foundation Sever customers can download and Read More...
Posted 28 March 07 11:40 by aridle | 0 Comments
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Be Careful What You Wish For...: A few months ago, I ranted about TFS Process Templates. Now, I'm a member of the team responsible for building these templates for future versions of TFS. Funny how that works! At the moment, the team is closing down work on Orcas and starting to think Read More...
Posted 24 March 07 01:33 by aridle | 0 Comments
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It happens every time...: <RANT> It happens every time I start a new project. Team Foundation Server makes me choose a process template when I create a new Team Project. But, since I’m not happy with any of the process templates I’ve tried so far (MSF Agile, Conchango Scrum, Read More...
Posted 19 July 06 10:33 by aridle | 1 Comments
Filed under Agile, TFS
Continuous Integration: This week, I spent some time learning Team Build and configuring a build server for Continuous Integration (CI). I’ll tell you more about that experience in a separate post. But, before I go there, I want to make sure everyone is on the same page. For Read More...
Posted 11 November 05 07:10 by aridle | 0 Comments
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TFS Beta 3 Refresh: Today is the day! Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are now available for download by MSDN subscribers. And, Team Foundation Server is releasing Beta 3 Refresh to stay in sync with the RTM bits. Since most of us in patterns & practices have already Read More...
Posted 28 October 05 12:09 by aridle | 0 Comments
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Installing TFS Beta 3: I alluded to the fact that it took us a couple of tries to get the TFS Beta 3 install right in a prior post . Here’s the full story… If at first you don’t succeed… To begin, we chose to implement a dual-server deployment, because we anticipated the most Read More...
Posted 26 October 05 09:52 by aridle | 0 Comments
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Piloting TFS Beta 3: A few weeks ago, Microsoft released the third beta of Team Foundation Server (TFS). If you are not familiar with it, TFS is an integrated suite of enterprise software development tools, including source code management, work item tracking, build automation, Read More...
Posted 17 October 05 04:47 by aridle | 0 Comments
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