July 2004 - Posts

• The Makings of Visual Studio Team System Work Item Types

  Visual Studio Team System is extensible. For work item tracking that means you have the ability to define your own work item types. One person’s bug is another person’s defect, requirement, feature, risk, issue, change request, or task. In Read More... Posted Friday, July 30, 2004 4:33 PM by brianwh | 2 Comments Filed under: Work Item Tracking

• The Checkout/Checkin Model is Antiquated with a capital "A"

  Korby Parnell blogs that the checkin/checkout paradigm is broken here . “In the same way, I think that changing checkout to edit would lead us to reevaluate CHECKIN. Together, checkin and checkout are a dynamic and self-documenting duo. They are Read More... Posted Friday, July 30, 2004 3:44 PM by brianwh | 5 Comments Filed under: Software Configuration Management