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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 Read More...
Posted 20 April 08 03:57 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 28 March 08 08:31 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 March 08 02:54 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 31 July 07 12:27 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 July 07 04:01 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 04 June 07 04:09 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 21 April 07 03:57 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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The many faces of quality
Brian's been compiling a great series of posts regarding managing quality which I would highly recommend reading. His latest post about community feedback provides a view in on how we think about this important aspect of our development process. People Read More...
Posted 21 April 07 02:59 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 05 March 07 06:57 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 03 March 07 02:58 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 25 January 07 02:30 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 18 January 07 02:52 by jeffbe | 3 Comments   
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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. Read More...
Posted 15 January 07 01:58 by jeffbe | 3 Comments   
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Managing work for Team System
Martin Woodward , one of our newest Team System MVPs , was recently asking me about how we manage work within our team and if I'd be willing to share our TFS work item types to give a real world example. Our dogfood usage of TFS is one of my favorite Read More...
Posted 17 October 06 03:13 by jeffbe | 6 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 26 June 05 09:03 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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