Our friends at our partner RippleRock are running a free one day hands-on training course on running scrum with Team Foundation Server 2012. The course will be held 24th May 2013 at the Microsoft Campus in Reading. Sign up can be found here: https://msevents...

I’m really pleased to be taking our popular Application Lifecycle Management with VS2012 workshops out to some new venues across the UK. I hope that these will prove as popular as our London, Reading and Edinburgh events and give me a chance to...

If you’re interested in gaining industry recognized accreditation and becoming a Certified ScrumMaster, and would like to see how to apply this knowledge to the use of Team Foundation Server 2012 then RippleRock have put together an interesting...

An area that I am often asked about relates to the Scrum process template and in particular how the Task work item only measures a single unit of time, Remaining Work. I personally quite like the focus that having only one measurement has on an Agile...

On the 24 th April we are hosting a development focussed day as part of our free online Tech Days event. The sessions are short bite sized sessions for you to watch from the comfort of your own desk, with an agenda as below… Day One, Wednesday...

The Visual Studio testing tools are now in their second major iteration and many organisations are already using them to help integrate the development and testing efforts in their projects. Many large organisations have historically been using the HP...

For anyone interested in testing on the Microsoft platform you may well want to check out a Meetup organised by nFocus, one of our Gold ALM Competency Partners. The Meetup is ideal for those looking to use Visual Studio to test, or are targeting testing...

My team will be presenting a couple of sessions at this years DevWeek conference (4th-8th March, London) around our ALM tools. I’ve just been made aware of this special offer open until the 15th February that can save some money on your registration:...

One of the new features coming in the next update wave for Team Foundation Server (TFS2012.2) and for Team Foundation Service (available now) is the ability to work with manual test cases from the web through a new web based Test Hub. Why? you may...

Wow, last week was quite a week for Visual Studio ALM with quite a few important announcements… GIT support in TFS and Visual Studio Firstly Brian Harry announced our support for GIT ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/01/30/git-init-vs.aspx...

My team are putting on some more Application Lifecycle Management events in February and March. These are essentially an end to end demo running through Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012. We run them as relatively small and informal sessions...

The new Agile Task Board is an excellent way of working in a Sprint, visually keeping track of tasks on either a per PBI basis, or on a user-by-user basis. If you’ve not seen the board in action before I recommend you check our own Giles Davies...

TFS 2012 has improved the way that it handles iterations to allow data for iteration start and end dates to be included as metadata in-line with an iteration path. Recently I was working with a customer upgrading from TFS2010 to TFS2012 wanting...

After the success of the online Tech Days run last year we have decided to ensure this year’s includes a developer day. We’re really keen to get your views of what you would like to see in the content to ensure that we cover areas that...

Microsoft has teamed with Pluralsight to create a custom 12-month training subscription for MSDN subscribers around the world. The Pluralsight starter subscription contains 25 online training courses, including five Visual Studio 2012 courses. You...

The first Update for Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server is now out. This includes new features in four main areas: Windows Development SharePoint Development Agile Teams Continuous Quality Soma’s put a great summary together so take a look...

RippleRock are one of our closest partners in the UK when it comes to facilitating Agile practices with Team Foundation Server. Colin Bird is the founder of RippleRock but formerly, as Conchango's CTO, he was responsible for their Agile consulting services...

The new Page Inspector in Visual Studio 2012 really helps with a common problem – where does something I can see in my web application’s UI actually come from? Where in my source code will I need to look? Page Inspector provides integrated browser diagnostic...

This post draws on an interview with my Boss’ Boss, Anand Krishnan, and provides a good overview of the opportunity App developers have with Windows 8 . I won’t repeat the contents here but it covers the projected size of the Windows 8 market, the developer...

Team Foundation Service is now released! Here’s my summary of the key links and information: Announcement Does the URL change from <myname>.tfspreview.com? Yes, that will continue to work, but your account will now be available at <myname>...

You may have clearly identified the new capabilities that you’d like to use in TFS 2012, but if you need some assistance in helping to demonstrate the benefits of upgrading then you might be interested in the presentation that Graham Pembery has put together...

I’ve just updated my Design Patterns UML Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2012. I’d noticed that the version I’d put together for the Beta was not installing correctly in the RTM version so this fixes that. I’m not sure exactly what the problem was...

We’re putting on some more Application Lifecycle Management events in October and November. These are essentially an end to end demo running through Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012. We run them as relatively small and informal sessions and...

nFocus , one of our UK Gold Partners, and specialists in quality assurance and testing, are running two Visual Studio 2012 launch events specifically focussed on the testing tools. These free, half day events will include a lot of demonstrations of the...

The guys at Pinewood Technologies have started a Scrum User Group for the Heart of England. The very first one is taking place on Monday 22nd Oct, from 7pm – 9pm at the Pinewood Technologies offices in Birmingham. More details are available here and join...