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So tell us what you think... about the MSF guidance

Recently I've been talking with the MSF team about the future of the MSF guidance in Team System. Two themes have come up: firstly, how to make it better, more focussed, more relevant. And secondly, how to make the MSF guidance "enactable", in other words to have it appear in the right places in the shell, when you need it, to help the team's efforts.

To get this right, we really need to hear from you. We'd love to have your feedback on what you think about the MSF guidance today, and what needs to be improved or fixed.

If you have 5 minutes to spare, please take our "MSF guidance experience" survey and let us know what you really think.

Start the survey here.

 

(When I say 'MSF guidance', I mean these HTML pages that you can access from the Team Explorer tree and also in your browser)

 

 

Published Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:17 AM by andrewdelin

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# Techy News Blog » So tell us what you think… about the MSF guidance @ Monday, September 24, 2007 1:48 PM

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# Influence the future of MSF guidance @ Monday, September 24, 2007 1:57 PM

Andrew Delin, a colleague of mine, who is working on the next generation of the Microsoft Solutions Framework,

Grigori Melnik: Thoughts on Agile Software Engineering and Beyond

# re: So tell us what you think... about the MSF guidance @ Monday, September 24, 2007 2:02 PM

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gmelnik

# Influence MSF guidance @ Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:33 PM

My colleague, Andrew Delin, is making the process of developing software real for development teams.

Don Smith

# re: So tell us what you think... about the MSF guidance @ Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:52 PM

I don't find the MSF guidance all that useful other than to provide a high-level overview of a "process".  Someone new to MSF isn't going to have all the artifacts discussed in the MSF guidance and the guidance provides no detail about what should be in those artifacts.  Artifact terms are likely subjective and a team new to MSF would not be able to map their existing artifacts to the MSF artifacts without that detail.  That assumes a team is correctly producing artifacts; but again, they can't tell if they don't know what detail should be in the artifacts.  for example "Functional Specification" is very vague.  A team producing a "functional specification" what doesn't have the detail necessary for MSF isn't going to get the benefit of using MSF.

If the members of the team have to go find a reference on MSF to implement an MSF process, the guidance has failed.  In other words, if the team needs to be knowledgeable about MSF to make use of the guidance, they have no need for the guidance.

Peter Ritchie

# Help impact the future of MSF @ Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:04 PM

Andrew's got his head to the grindstone focusing on what the future picture of MSF guidance looks like

My Technobabble

# Please give us your thoughts on MSF @ Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:48 AM

In many ways, the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) is at the very center of Team System. It goes beyond

Jeff Beehler's Blog

# Please give us your thoughts on MSF @ Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:54 AM

In many ways, the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) is at the very center of Team System. It goes beyond

Noticias externas

# re: So tell us what you think... about the MSF guidance @ Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:01 PM

The guidance should be 'How' to get a work item completed and should complement the Description which is 'What' to get completed. So ideally the guidance should display with each work item and there should be a way for the person creating the work item to select a particular step from the process and be able to associate it with the work item, so that the person asigned to can use that information to get the work item completed. The possible choices of the guidance selection could be based upon the work item type. This should be in addition to the way guidance is laid out now so that once people get used to the guidance then the associating guidance to a work item part could become optional.

dchitnis

# Links: patterns and practices links @ Friday, October 12, 2007 5:23 PM

I did a quick round-up of some key patterns & practices team links and figured I'd share: MSDN patterns

J.D. Meier's Blog

# Patterns & practices - links @ Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:18 AM

J.D. Meier's Blog has an entry on patterns and practices links I did a quick round-up of some key patterns

Walter Stiers - Academic Relations Team (BeLux)

# Enquête sur les méthodologies MSF @ Monday, October 15, 2007 10:27 AM

Suite à une réorganisation de nos équipes de développement, l'équipe MSF fait maintenant partie de l'équipe

Visual Studio Team System

# e a chi interessano i processi ... @ Friday, October 19, 2007 5:52 PM

e a chi interessano i processi ...

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