Gregg Boer's Blog

Kanban customizable columns, “under the hood”

(This blog post is also posted on the Visual Studio ALM Blog) Kanban customizable columns was made...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/04/2013

TFS/Agile PM: Configuring so your tasks are estimated in story points

I’ve had a few people ask: “What if I estimate my tasks in something other than hours, like ideal...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 09/24/2012

Team Foundation Service: Process template changes

With this latest Team Foundation Service update, we have updated the process template versions for...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 09/19/2012

TFS vNext: Configuring your project to have a master backlog and sub-teams

  One backlog to rule them all… One common practice we’ve seen our customers use is to have a...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 01/27/2012

Work Item Tracking Custom Controls

  (Many thanks to Hayder Casey, who provided this great write-up on work item tracking custom...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/30/2010

TF252031: A SharePoint site could not be created for the team project collection. (HRESULT: 0x80040E09)

Full error message: “TF252031: A SharePoint site could not be created for the team project...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/11/2010

What I think about the younger generation of software professionals

I have an opportunity to teach Software Project Management as a part of a University of Washington...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/10/2010

In 2005 and 2008 versions of TFS, the work item links control that displayed the links always showed...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/04/2010

(This is a re-post of information from the now deprecated blog: “Teams WIT Tools”) (3/2/2010:...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/01/2010

Names changed for core WIT fields, and implications thereof

In work item tracking, there are several system fields that always exist in every work item type....

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 02/25/2010

Resolving bugs using 2005/2008 clients on TFS 2010 RC

There is an issue where 2005/2008 clients connecting to a TFS 2010 RC server, with team projects...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 02/25/2010

SharePoint Integration Troubleshooting Guide

Attached to this blog post is a guide that can be used to troubleshoot problems with SharePoint...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 02/25/2010

Creating SharePoint Portals, Reports, and Upgrading Reports for an existing team project

In the Release Candidate, we have added the ability to do the following: · Create a SharePoint...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 02/24/2010