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TFS Best Practices

The Microsoft Patterns and Practices team, in concert with the TFS team and a panel of customer reviewer has just released a terrific document on TFS Best Practices.  This is distinct from the TFS help on MSDN in the sense that it is not "How-to" guidance but is conceptual information and recommendations for how to use TFS to fit your development process.

The release is in "Beta" now and we are taking feedback for further improvements.  Please look it over and give us any feedback you have.  It's pretty long (hundreds of pages) but it's organized well and you can go straight to the guidance you need.

Brian

Published Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:50 PM by bharry

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# re: TFS Best Practices

Friday, June 22, 2007 1:01 PM by bhackerson

Can you comment on best practices for deploying process template changes to existing projects?  This is one of our key challenges right now.  I'm focused primarily on work items, and preserving traceability via the Links.

Thanks!

# re: TFS Best Practices

Monday, June 25, 2007 10:59 AM by bharry

I don't think we have much written up about this but it would make a great topic though.  I wish we had some really simple a great tools for doing this.  We don't have any way to just update the template that a project uses.  You can update all of the individual pieces though.  Work item types can be updated with WITIMPORT.EXE and WITEXPORT.EXE.  That's what we recommend doing for now.

Brian

# re: TFS Best Practices

Monday, December 17, 2007 6:46 PM by mcowan

Is this the latest version or should I be looking at something newer?

My company (Healthnotes.com) purchased TFS (prior to bringing me on as QA Manager) and implemented it incorrectly. The web interface, SharePoint integration, workflow and performance are all buggy or broken.

I am taking the time to standup a parallel TFS installation, set it up correctly, use a standard workflow and make the case to migrate away from the custom (and I do mean custom) workflows.

Anyways, thanks for all the hard work, your blog has been very helpful so far.

Michael

# re: TFS Best Practices

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:11 AM by bharry

Yes, the link above is to the latest version.

Brian

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