June 2004 - Posts

• Usability testing - lessons learned

  One of the great things about developing products at Microsoft is the access to great tools. Usability testing is one of my favorite. Last week, the VSTS team ran a weeklong series of usability tests across the whole product to see what happens when you Read More... Posted Monday, June 14, 2004 5:13 PM by KeithRowe | 3 Comments

• Reporting

  On the long list of exciting new features in Visual Studio Team System is our very rich reporting system. We are building a single data warehouse with SQL Server that is hosted on the Team Foundation Server. All the tools are aware of this warehouse and Read More... Posted Friday, June 11, 2004 9:15 AM by KeithRowe | 8 Comments

• Methodologies - our process, your process, no process

  Since 1994, Microsoft has had an application development methodology called the Microsoft Solution Framework. While it's been available through Microsoft Consulting Services and in various MCSD trainings, we've never shipped it in a product. In Visual Read More... Posted Friday, June 04, 2004 10:33 AM by KeithRowe | 12 Comments

• What was that about Excel?

  When we started designing the project management features in VS Team System, we had a pretty idealized view of the world. Project managers would sit in their cubicles and grind away in MS Project. The resulting tasks would funnel into VS Team System to Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:48 AM by KeithRowe | 17 Comments