Thoughts on ALM, Azure, and Agile by Walter Myers III

For a long time I have wanted to get around to writing precise instructions on how to modify the out of the box MSF for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement process templates with respect to the SharePoint sites they generate...

It’s late on a Sunday night and I couldn’t sleep, so I thought I would crank out a blog post discussing my observations on decomposition of coding tasks with Team Foundation Server (TFS). When I deliver training on TFS 2008, I always offer my commentary...

I ran into a problem doing a split install (separate App Tier and Data Tier) of Team Foundation Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 while running the configuration wizard, allowing the wizard to install SharePoint. It seems if you use a different service...

I'm sure some are wondering if they will be able to connect to Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 from the existing Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer. The good news is "yes," you can, but as of current you will have to provide the full construction of the...

Since installing the latest Office 2010 Beta, I noticed new contacts in Outlook 2010 showing up on my mobile phone that I sync with Outlook. Some were names I didn't recognize that consisted of an email address only, while some consisted of an email name...

A customer asked me the following question a couple of days ago: "To install SQL Reporting, you must have the SQL Engine installed on that server anyway. What are the license implications of having SQL Reporting installed on our TFS box? If that...

Yes, you can, but this is not recommended. Although the TFS 2008 documentation requests that the account used to install TFS must be an admin on the data tier, there is a way to circumvent this. The recommended approach is that if, for administrative...