The team foundation extensibility kit is available as of today! This goes with the December CTP release and includes quite a few things. For those of you following the work item extensibility it includes updated specs and updated witimport.exe for creating...

There are many types of individuals who will perform the oh so glamorous role of team foundation administrator. Who are these individuals who seek such fame and fortune? What are their primary issues and concerns? For team foundation, I have defined three...

For all you out there wondering how you are going to support your Unix, Linix, MAC, and yes Eclipse developers if you move to Team Foundation take a gander at Eric Sink's Blog http://software.ericsink.com/entries/allerton.html

I’m going to let the discussions drive my direction for this post. In here I cover Team Foundation Deployment Topologies . Again, I’m interested in your early feedback to help validate our assumptions. The primary team system server is the Team Foundation...

This is a continuation of my post Using Blogs to Drive Product Direction and is an experiment in getting customer feedback on product decisions through blogs. I’d like you to keep two things in mind. 1) Anything I post here is likely to change before...

Part of the job of a program manager is to make the tough calls balancing features, time-to-market, and available resources. Blogging seems to offer the potential for gathering near real-time feedback on trade-offs without conduct a survey, producing...

Last week I presented at Visual Studio Connections in rainy Las Vegas (Yes, rainy. Sadly, yet not surprising I can also report moderate losses). Several of you asked me for copies of these presentations and thanks to the help of Rob Caron you'll find...

The Visual Studio Connections conference is being held next week in Las Vegas, NV. There will be overviews and demos of the latest Visual Studio Team Foundation capabilities and other Visual Studio Team System capabilites next. You can find me presenting...

Visual Studio Team System is extensible. For work item tracking that means you have the ability to define your own work item types. One person’s bug is another person’s defect, requirement, feature, risk, issue, change request, or task. In...

Korby Parnell blogs that the checkin/checkout paradigm is broken here . “In the same way, I think that changing checkout to edit would lead us to reevaluate CHECKIN. Together, checkin and checkout are a dynamic and self-documenting duo. They...

The day I loose my linguistic nimbility will be the day I leave the software industry. You might ask what is linguistic nimbility? or LN for short. Well, linguistic nimbility consists off two skills. First, is the ability to determining the meaning of...

The software industries ability to produce acronyms and talk in jargon may only be matched by the military. One of our other abilities is using the same word to mean hundreds of different things. My favorites are object and project , closely followed...

I’ve been in the software tools industry for the majority of my career. It has been utterly amazing to me to see the rise of the importance of software development tools. In fact, when people ask me what I do, I say “software tools for software...

What an exciting day! Head to Visual Studio Team System for more information on the announcement at TechEd today. Microsoft will be releasing an extensible set of software development life-cycle tools that help software teams collaborate to reduce the...

Software development continues to increase in complexity with results being of higher quality and produced in less time. It is a recipe for disfunctional teams and stressed out individuals. To establish successful track records software teams turn to...