I think one of the greatest challenges for a project manager is to have a realistic view of how much time team members can really spend on their scheduled tasks. Unplanned activities can put a big dent in projects leading to all sorts of fire fighting;...

What is a Team Project and how does it map to the real world. That's a big question. I ran across this interesting post from Peter Bauwens : http://peterbauwens.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/planning-team-projects/ He's done some good thinking on how...

Last post, I talked about how to filter on link types. Here’s an example: < Control Type =" LinksControl " Name =" UniqueName "> < LinksControlOptions > < WorkItemLinkFilters FilterType =" includeAll " /> < ExternalLinkFilters...

In Whidbey, and Orcas, the work item links control that displayed the links always showed all the links. For Rosario, we made a design decision based on the fact that whoever is designing a work item form, may want to display certain link types separately...

With Rosario, you can define multiple link types. This allows for you to customize link types to match your processes. This blog post is a primer in how to do that. Quick-start guide on creating a new link type: Here's how to create a new link type...

Have you ever wanted to provide access to your TFS data to an external set of users, for example, contractors or customers, but wanted to restrict access to the data. I mean you want transparency, but not COMPLETE transparency. I just answered a forum...

As a follow up to Gregg's post on querying on links and creating tree queries, I'd like to introduce you to managing work item hierarchies in Microsoft Excel. Creating work item hierarchy There are a few ways you can get started with creating hierarchies...

The enhanced query builder in Rosario offers the ability to query on links. This gives you the ability to ask the system questions like: · Give me all the Scenarios and any Bugs that might be linked to them. · Give me only the Scenarios that have...

What’s new in work item tracking in Microsoft ® Visual Studio ® Team System code name “Rosario” Traceability is a big push with Rosario. To that end, we have improved the linking functionality is work item tracking, in Rosario. Before Rosario, there...