Jeff Beehler's Blog

Over 100,000 to be precise. Take a look at Soma's recent announcement of this important milestone for the software factories initiative . It's exciting to see the growing interest in this portion of Visual Studio Team System. For those of you that...

A few weeks back my buddy Etienne tagged me and it's been on my list of things to do to respond. Then, earlier this week, Buck listed me on his tag . Then, this morning, Brian did the same and I figured I better get off my butt before it happens a fourth...

I'm not sure if size matters, but if it does, Martin's laying claim to the World's Smallest TFS as compared to Dave Glover's system . Wonder if anyone can beat that? It also makes me wonder who's got the largest...I'm thinking it might be our own internal...

Brian has recently posted about a tool that he introduced to me way before we released TFS. I found it immensely valuable to really get a handle on what was going on with our dogfood server and how much usage it had seen recently. He's been plugging away...

Edward Jezierski and Peter Provost spoke with Rory of Channel 9 recently . Pretty interesting to hear about the history of the patterns and practices team who are now part of the Visual Studio Team System team. We're working hard to bring our teams together...

Richard has some important news to share about SourceSafe support on Vista and he asked that I help direct my dozen readers (hi Mom!) to his blog which is precisely what I'm doing. Please read: Clarifying SourceSafe support on Vista SourceSafe on Vista...

My buddy ET has been working with us on TFS for as long as I can remember...in fact I think he was able to install early builds of TFS before most of the rest of the team could figure it out. So it struck me as a bit funny to hear that he hadn't used...

I've been meaning to write a more detailed post describing the mechanics for managing work for Team System . Turns out Siddharth beat me to it with his article on Tracking Customer Value . Take a look, it's very informative.

The teams responsible for Team System reporting are interested in your feedback as they map out a course for the future. Reporting is one of the most powerful components within Team System. In fact, I use the reporting capabilities of the system on a...

As I learn more about our customers through our various community activities , I'm realizing how important in depth guidance is to increasing the success of our customers and their overall satisfaction with our product. We're working hard to beef up these...

I'm a big fan of the work item tracking features in TFS since I use them (and the resulting data in for reports) on a daily basis. Because of this, I was excited to see that Siddharth and Ameya have made initial posts to a new blog focused just on these...

Maybe this is old news to you. Certainly Rob and Brian have posted about it before. But since I'm still hearing people ask about what's in Team System and wanting to try it out without downloading and installing the whole thing, I'll add my $0.02. So...

Take a look at the newly created Version Control blog for which Chandru (one of the devs on the team) has provided the first post . I'm hoping we'll see many more in the future...I know that team is heads down on fixing bugs for Orcas at the moment so...

If somehow you missed it, VS2005 SP1 was released last month. You can read more about that here . This week's news is that we've now published a list of the most noteworthy bugs fixed in this service pack which you can read here . Brian Harry has also...