Jeff Beehler's Blog

I've been working closely with customers for over two years now as they've planned their deployments of Team Foundation Server. With each one it seems that we invariably run into the same question: "How should I structure my team project?" Since this...

We recently posted two new Channel 9 videos for your viewing pleasure. Using Team Foundation Server to Visualize Change - One of the most powerful aspects of Team Foundation Server is the amount of raw data which gets collected behind the scenes while...

Based on the feedback that we've received on our upcoming chat , we decided to add another session later in the day to accommodate folks in other timezones. Of course it'll be on Saturday in many timezones around the world so hopefully folks will still...

“With Visual Studio Team System, we thought we were buying developer tools; what we got was a culture-changing tool.” “Rational was cumbersome and required too much specialized knowledge and time investment. Despite our best efforts, people simply...

To help us better align our Team Developer forums with our feature and how our customers use our products, we have created several new forums: Visual Studio Code Analysis and Code Metrics Visual Studio Performance Tools (Profiler) Visual Studio...

As we announced last month, the version of Team System that we're working on after Team System "Orcas" is known as "Rosario". While the details aren't locked down yet, we've made exciting progress towards making this release real. We've definitely been...

I'm speaking at TechEd 2007 in Orlando this coming June on the whys and hows of customizing TFS. As part of the early research I'm doing for the talk, I'm reaching out to the individual teams to understand what they've seen to date. I just heard back...

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the in the Visual...

As I've mentioned before , I watch over the community efforts within the Team System team. As part of that we monitor our blogging activity to ensure that we've got a good flow of information reaching the community on a regular basis. At the moment we...

I'm old enough to remember when McDonald's would display the number (in millions and billions) of hamburgers sold on their signs . Since they now serve 54 million customers a day, the signs now just say "billions and billions". As a kid it was fun to...

If you're a SharePoint user and haven't tried out the new version ( WSS 3.0 ), you're missing out. We switched our internal servers over at the start of the year and it's quite an improvement. They've made it easier to get started with new sites, to create...

Gregg's asking for your feedback on time tracking for software development projects...an issue that brings up all sorts of responses: You mention time tracking, and you get mixed emotions. Executives feel they need it. Developers and Testers hate doing...

One of my jobs on the Team System team is to work with the Rangers who are focused on accelerating adoption of Visual Studio Team System 2005 while we work on bringing Orcas and Rosario to market. I really enjoy this part of my job because it keeps me...

Brian's been compiling a great series of posts regarding managing quality which I would highly recommend reading. His latest post about community feedback provides a view in on how we think about this important aspect of our development process. People...

Hopefully by now you've had a chance to download Orcas Beta1 and try it out for yourself. I, for one, was just running the VPC version which includes all of Team System including TFS yesterday and it's pretty amazing to see it all come together. We've...