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As Brian Harry noted in his Blog , Orcas SP1 will have the ability to email a list of work items from either a query or the results view in Team Explorer.  This is a feature that will have everyday application.  I personally love it as a PM...

Someone showed me this post , and I thought I would pass it along.

Before we talk about tracking progress, it might be useful to review the feature crew lifecycle as described in a previous post . The picture below will be a reference point for this post. The picture below shows the "Progress" tab of our "Feature"...

In an effort to gather your feedback very early on in the development process, we started publishing TFS specifications for the upcoming Rosario release. You might have already seen posts from Brian Harry announcing the availability. We have published...

Martin has put out a cool tool on CodePlex: Sticky Buddy !  It provides a WPF-based graphical view of work items by Area or Iteration.  It's really easy to see the user stories that are active & resolved in the active Iteration (Iteration...

In the previous posts , I spoke about how we used TFS to implement the process. In this post, I'll talk about how we went about planning a release. On the feature record, we had a "Planning" tab: Zooming in a bit: What we did is have...

Michiel sent in a question about this blog post that I thought I would answer to everyone. The question is: How do you create relationships between the work items? For example, Scenarios to Value Props, Value Props to Experiences, Experiences to Features...

In previous posts and I talked about out processes. Today I'm going to introduce how we implemented our processes using TFS.   In review, our process looks something like this. Read this post , for more information on the process. We used work items...

It is probably common knowledge by now that the history and html fields allow rich text input. Since there is no toolbar to edit rich text, I have seen users even compose text in editors like Microsoft Word and then paste it in the work item. But...

· These instructions will help determine if the Team Add-In is disabled in Excel and will allow you to enable it. Open Excel Select the Windows Menu Select Excel Options Go to Add-Ins Manage Add-Ins Select TFS and OK! Team Tool Bar should be back

One of the issues that Microsoft has to deal with on a very large scale is that while they are managing 1200 individual features, all of this works on a single code base. With all that activity going on, how do you maintain the quality of the code base...