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Guidance Explorer: enabling discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance

Several of our MVPs just recently “discovered” the Guidance Explorer project run by our very on patterns & practices team even though it’s been released for some time now.  Since this was a surprise to many of them, I figured it’d be good mention

Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - now in Russian

Folks in our Ukrainian subsidiary recently completed the translation effort for the wildly popular Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server . I'm not sure I have a strong Russian speaking following, but just in case, please take a look:

Team System guidance published to MSDN

You've heard me talk before about the Team System guidance that the patterns & practices team has produced. It's quite popular with the folks that have discovered it but we still have trouble getting the word out. So, I'm happy to announce that it's

My foreword

For the recently published Team Development with TFS guide , I wrote the following foreword which seemed worthy of posting here as well. Before we released Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS), we first used it to develop TFS. For

final version of Team Development with TFS now available

We hear on a regular basis that customers want our advice and guidance on how best to use Team Foundation Server. Given the power and flexibility of TFS, it's reasonable that folks would want us to point them down a proven path rather than leaving them

Performance testing guide

JD and his p&p team are on fire. In the space of two days last week, they released both the Beta1 of the TFS Guide and the Beta1 of the Performance Testing Guide . They both look great and are ready for your feedback to make them even better. JD writes

VSTS Guidance project update

I strongly encourage everyone to take a look at the VSTS Guidance project update recently posted by JD and the p&p team. It’s impressive! We embarked on this project after hearing from our customers that one of their top needs was more guidance on

Team System Guidance

J.D. Meier was recently telling me the way he distinguishes between product documentation and guidance...it's like the difference between the Owner's Manual and a Driver's guide. You need both but for different reasons. Traditionally, the product team

Check out the p&p Channel 9 interview

Edward Jezierski and Peter Provost spoke with Rory of Channel 9 recently . Pretty interesting to hear about the history of the patterns and practices team who are now part of the Visual Studio Team System team. We're working hard to bring our teams together

Thousands and thousands of software factories!

Over 100,000 to be precise. Take a look at Soma's recent announcement of this important milestone for the software factories initiative . It's exciting to see the growing interest in this portion of Visual Studio Team System. For those of you that aren't

Performance Testing Guidance Project

As I learn more about our customers through our various community activities , I'm realizing how important in depth guidance is to increasing the success of our customers and their overall satisfaction with our product. We're working hard to beef up these
 
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