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Sunday, April 20, 2008 3:57 PM

How DevDiv uses TFS

Gregg Boer, a program manager on the TFS work item tracking team has started a series of posts outlining in good detail how we used TFS work item tracking within Developer Division to manage the Visual Studio 2008 project.  Based on the popularity
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Friday, March 28, 2008 8:31 PM

Update on DevDiv dogfooding of TFS

Matt Gertz, Developer Division's manager responsible for our internal development tactics and process, recently posted an article covering the broad post-VS2008 efforts to more broadly adopt TFS within DevDiv for future product development. As regular
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Monday, March 24, 2008 2:54 PM

Internal usage stats for Team Foundation Server

Joe Schwetz, the group manager of our TFS Solution Provider team, publishes a monthly report which updates us on the internal adoption of Team Foundation Server across the company. You've heard from me before about our internal dogfooding of TFS within
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:27 AM

Team System Web Access Power Tool released!

Brian's recently announced the availability of the the Team System Web Access Power Tool. We've been using it internally for the past 3-4 months and as with most dogfooding efforts, we've found and fixed a bunch of issues. I think you'll find this release
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:01 PM

TFS adoption at Microsoft

Frequent readers of my blog know full well that we take TFS dogfooding very seriously here. In fact, just this month we're celebrating 3 years of using TFS within the Team System team...pretty amazing. As you might expect, usage is taking off in other
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Monday, June 04, 2007 4:09 AM

Customizing TFS

As I previously mentioned , I've been collecting data from current TFS users to understand what sorts of customizations to TFS they are currently making in preparation for my upcoming TechEd talk. I've received quite a few responses (thanks to everyone
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 3:57 PM

Over 500 Million served

I'm old enough to remember when McDonald's would display the number (in millions and billions) of hamburgers sold on their signs . Since they now serve 54 million customers a day, the signs now just say "billions and billions". As a kid it was fun to
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Monday, March 05, 2007 6:57 PM

Managing Orcas Beta exit criteria by dogfooding TFS

I've written a few times about our usage of TFS while we develop newer versions of Visual Studio and TFS. It's one of my favorite topics so I'm excited about a recent update that we've made to our system to help us manage the end game of our beta release
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Saturday, March 03, 2007 2:58 PM

Reporting from Visio?!

When I first read Ameya's new post regarding using Visio as a reporting tool for TFS, I thought he must have lost his mind. However, after watching his two videos and how easy it is to provide an alternative view on data flowing from the Team Foundation
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:30 PM

TFS Server Manager

Brian has recently posted about a tool that he introduced to me way before we released TFS. I found it immensely valuable to really get a handle on what was going on with our dogfood server and how much usage it had seen recently. He's been plugging away
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Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:52 PM

Tell us what you think about reporting

The teams responsible for Team System reporting are interested in your feedback as they map out a course for the future. Reporting is one of the most powerful components within Team System. In fact, I use the reporting capabilities of the system on a
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Monday, January 15, 2007 1:58 PM

More details on managing work for Team System

I've been meaning to write a more detailed post describing the mechanics for managing work for Team System . Turns out Siddharth beat me to it with his article on Tracking Customer Value . Take a look, it's very informative.
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Sunday, June 26, 2005 9:03 AM

tasting fresh dogfood

As I mentioned before , we’re in the process of updating our internal version of VSTS with updated bits. We made good progress last week. For instance, Monday night we resolved all known dogfood blocking issues. I emphasize the word “known” because this
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:37 AM

refreshing dogfood

One of the big things we’re working on in Team System land right now is getting ready to update to the latest version of Team System for our internal use…we’re currently doing business on top of VSTS Beta2. As others (such as RickLa and JohnLawr ) have
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