John Lawrence (MSFT)

Earlier this week I posted a link to the hilarious Visual Studio Team System Song . To continue the amusement, JeffBe managed to track down the translation for me - it's fantastic. My favorite line has to be "Flower of hope ever so blossoming"... ...

I just thought I'd send out a quick reminder that we're doing a Team Foundation chat this morning in a couple of hours time - see you there! Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Public Chat Chat with members of the Team Foundation...

We had a minor firestorm today as we saw major performance degredation trying to create new Team Projects on pretty speedy server configuration. We all panicked for a while until a few folks remembered we'd seen something like it before and checked the...

I mentioned yesterday that Howard van Rooijen is working on Team Foundation process templates for Scrum Methodologies. Today he has posted details of the Work Item Types - if you've used Scrum, I highly recommend that you take a look and give him some...

I just spotted this on Etienne's blog - Joel Semeniuk has announced that an alpha version of his VSTS Process Template Editor is now available on a GotDotNet workspace here . There are blog articles about customizing process templates by hand - and...

This looks really exciting. A lot of folks I know are working using Scrum methodologies (including folks here at Microsoft) so it's great to see the work that Howard is doing with Colin Bird , Stuart Preston , Susie Kablean to implement Scrum methodologies...

Brian just posted a really long post about some work we're doing to estimate how many users you can support on a Team Foundation Server . The quick summary - we've been too conservative so far, and it looks like we'll actually be able to increase the...

I just found this through one of my Feedster subscriptions - it's hilarious! Visual Studio Team System Song I've got no idea what these guys are rapping about in the flash animation so if anyone can translate for me I'd love to know!

A Channel 9 video that Robert Scoble and Sonal Pardeshi came and filmed in my office is now online at Channel 9 . We chatted a lot about how we manage our source code/build/bug tracking processes we use internally, how we've been using Team Foundation...

We're having a webcast next Friday to talk about Beta 3 and anything else you want to find out about Team Foundation. We'll have experts from across the group joining us - I'm planning to be there too - so please come, hang out, ask some tough questions...

I can't believe that anyone reading my blog doesn't also read Rob Caron's but just in case, we've got a really important survey that we'd like you to answer in order to gather more information about your experiences of setting up Team Foundation Server...

James Dykes - a developer in the UK who I've been working with closely - has started a blog about his experiences using Team Foundation . He's actually done some of the most extensive Work Item Type customization I've seen so far - it's been impressive...

The recent earthquake tragedies must have been on my wife's mind heavily, because last night she woke me up at 4am because she was convinced she had been woken up by a tremor which had lasted for several minutes. I spent the next 15 minutes in a semi...

A couple of posts today from Jeff Beehler and John Bristowe have pointed out that the Go Live license VS2005 has now been updated to include Team Foundation Beta 3Team Foundation Beta 3 . The Go-Live FAQ is still out of date though, so I thought I...

I now have the latest dogfood data courtesy of Brian Harry . Now that Whidbey is pretty much finished, we've seen some reduction in our weekly number of users from other VS teams - although overall file count and work item counts have continued to...