Summary Page views continue to increase Ratings continue to be high (average 4.31 out of 5, compared to about 3 traditionally) Project management continues to have twice as many page views as the next area (also still administration) 4...

Last month, Beta 2 shipped, and we posted a corresponding update to the help content. Page views, ratings, and feedback have all more than doubled in October compared to previous months. Overall ratings remained higher than we had in VS2005 & VS2008...

You're probably using the RTM version of VS 2010 rather than the beta. If that's the case, see this post instead. If you are using Beta 2, read on... After you upgrade your server to Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 2, you have a wealth of new...

In September, we didn't have a lot of feedback, so I'm going with the flow and providing a very brief overview of that feedback. (Excuses, excuses). In fact, only three topics recieved ratings. Visual Studio Team System received two ratings with...

Summary Admin content is once again the most viewed section, although not by the historical 5:1 margin. The trend of high ratings for new content (using new approaches) continues. Details In August, there were almost 15,000 page views,...

Include your email when you leave feedback on help for project management in VSTS if you'd like a response. I can't guarantee that you'll get one, but I'd wager that you will.

As we write help for Team System, we try to hand topics off for localization as early as we can, but not too early. We don't want to incur the cost of relocalizing topics that we need to change. For example, if I hand off a topic that I've written about...

Summary The trends this month are good (or neutral). New content is getting high ratings; existing content is taking the low ratings. No new negative feedback on empty topics; one high rating on an "empty" navigation topic. Project...

Earlier this month, I sent this email internally summarizing the feedback we've recieved on the Beta 1 content for Team Foundation.

We published help content for Visual Studuio Team System 2010 Beta 1 that is substantially different from what we published in VSTS 2008. We're anxious to hear what worked well for you and what didn't. If you rate the topics that you read, we will use...

Do you customize the work items that you use with Team Foundation? Kathryn Elliot is looking for your input on what sort of documentation would be most helpful on her blog .

After you upgrade your server to Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1, you have a wealth of new features available. Generally, you don’t have to do anything except start using those new features. For example, you can use the new types of links between...

Since we mirror our topics from our content management system into TFS, we're able to use the TFS warehouse and Excel to easily create reports like this chart. We also link the topics to the the deliverables that describe the work that the product...

I've alluded to my plans to describe how we use TFS to plan, track progress, and do things like technical reviews. Brian Harry mentioned our tech review process in his blog post , so I'll write about that first. In the past, we've used an internal...

For a while, we were tracking our work by creating a backlog of scnearios, prioritizing them, then planning the top scenarios for our next iteratoin of work. We broke the scenarios down into tasks and tracked progress on those tasks over the course of...

Back in 2007, I wrote three articles on how the Team Foundation user education team was using work item tracking and reporting features to help manage our content work. http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/archive/2007/10/16/managing-documentation...