As some of you may have seen, Microsoft’s SDL team has completed their 2008 template! The SDL team originally shipped a TFS template for doing the Secure Development Lifecycle activities (SDL) on top of TFS. You gave great feedback that you wanted to...

I wanted to make sure all TFS users adopting 2010 saw this - This morning TFS released the GDR patch for TFS 2005 users who want to connect to a TFS 2010 server. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22215e4c-af6f-4e2f-96df-20e94d762689...

This came across my desk today and I thought it was interesting enough to share. Some of our MVPs in France really are passionate about scrum. They wanted to use a digital surface for their team’s task planning. They are using TFS as the back end. So...

Technorati Tags: SharePoint , TFS 2010 , Dashboards Many of you have talked with us about the new Enterprise SharePoint (sometimes called “MOSS”) dashboards. I wanted to get a note out to you about the setup. I want to be completely honest with you. It...

You may have already noticed in the Beta 2 version of Team Foundation Server that the Agile guidance looks quite a bit different. The RC content is up and I wanted to call it out because it’s alot different than anything you’ll have seen before. I’d love...

If you’ve been following us for a couple years, this is probably a talk you’ve seen before from Brian Harry, Jeff Beehler, Joe Schwetz or any one of several other people here in Team Foundation Server. I was asked this morning for the deck from this year...

In this month’s newsletter, the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program announced the creation of a new TFS Process Template Certification Program to certify and promote high-quality process template partners. While we ship some of the most popular...

I assume most of our major enterprise customers are not all-Microsoft shops and/or are not running all-MS tools. Our goal is to make developers successful with the very best tools, not to lock them all to our tools. (Of course I want our tools to be the...

Technorati Tags: Personal Normally I like to post about Visual Studio VSTS and TFS related information. Feel free to skip this one as it’s not about the product. I thought I’d just address questions from folks who were asking about the name change on...

Technorati Tags: VSTS , TFS , VSTS2008 , TFS2008 This is one I’ve been meaning to post for awhile. If you’ve ever wanted specifics on how far TFS Web Access scales, Hakan Eskici published a great whitepaper detailing scale limits on 2008. Here’s a link...

This cool update came across my desk last week. We are now providing free hosted trials of Team Foundation Server through partnership with TeamDevCentral . This is a good low-cost way to test-drive TFS and evaluate the feature set yourself. The six-week...

Several of you emailed that the link to TFS 2010 Beta 1compatibility information was incorrect. Thanks for the quick feedback. Here’s the correct link: TFS Beta 1 Compatibility . I’ve also corrected the online post. Thanks! Steph

Dev10 Beta 1 has shipped! We are really excited to have you trying our Beta and giving us feedback. The TFS team has pulled together some really nice content to help you get ready for TFS 2010 and also delve into Beta 1. I’ve been reading through all...

A customer asked me this morning for some demo videos to show TFS to his team. As I was pulling together these links, I thought it might be info you’d value. Here is a short list of a few sites where you can find great video demos of TFS. This includes...

As I bet many of you have noticed, we’ve been systematically overhauling the VSTS website. You’ve probably noticed slow but steady changes over the past several months. Alot of you gave feedback that we needed better content here, and we agree. Thanks...

If you’re living in the greater Seattle area and are curious about any of the new TFS features planned for 2010, come find out! Chuck Sterling just reminded me that John, Ben and Matt will be doing an informal session of info and demos in downtown Seattle...

One of the questions I often get from customers is, what are the primary benefits of the upgrade from 2005 –> 2008. I know we have published alot on this from the product team, but it is always good to get an outside perspective. This article from...

I’m happy to report that Team System posted a new community page to our MSDN site today! We hear from our community that it’s been difficult to quickly find great community content. We have a fantastic and very active community. I hope this makes it easier...

MSIT is our internal IT department at Microsoft. I’ve had alot of interest generated from all the talks about their development process, and several people have asked me if we have any whitepapers with further details.   I checked in with MSIT, and...

I’m just catching up on a few things from the Heathrow Airport. It seems there was alot of demand for decks on this subject. I promised audiences to post copies of the decks for additional events this fall. Please hop right on your delete key and delete...

If you’re curious to get an overview of Agile Development in Visual Studio, here are some slides that may help. I gave a talk this afternoon at TechEd EMEA that covered the full set of Agile features in VS scaling from Visual Studio Express all the way...

This morning I am in Las Vegas giving one of the keynotes for VSLive! The conference organizers thought it would be really cool to talk about how Microsoft does development with VSTS. I get a ton of questions about this and I also know I like to pick...

VersionOne, like Rally, builds tools for Agile development. I think it is great that our customers can now use these for development! VersionOne supports several methodologies including the two most popular, Scrum and XP. I had a chance to learn about...

Many of you are no doubt familiar with Rally Software, who build a product for agile project planning and development. Several customers have talked with us about Rally and have been very complimentary of their tools. I'm very excited to report that...

OK, thanks everyone for the feedback on the distributed development whitepaper. There was enough feedback on this that I'm going to go look into getting a version of this released out to the community. Thanks! Steph