Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson's Weblog

SDL Team Completes Agile + SDL Template for TFS 2008!

As some of you may have seen, Microsoft’s SDL team has completed their 2008 template! The SDL team...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 03/15/2010

TFS 2005 Compat Patch Now Available

I wanted to make sure all TFS users adopting 2010 saw this - This morning TFS released the GDR patch...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 03/15/2010

Using Microsoft Surface for Agile Planning

This came across my desk today and I thought it was interesting enough to share. Some of our MVPs in...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 03/15/2010

Setting up Enterprise SharePoint with TFS 2010

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,TFS 2010,Dashboards Many of you have talked with us about the new...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 02/16/2010

New Agile Guidance and CMMI Guidance

You may have already noticed in the Beta 2 version of Team Foundation Server that the Agile guidance...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 02/15/2010

How Microsoft Does Development

If you’ve been following us for a couple years, this is probably a talk you’ve seen before from...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 02/15/2010

New Visual Studio Process Template Certification Program

In this month’s newsletter, the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program announced the creation...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 02/05/2010

New Overview for all TFS Migration / Integration Tools

I assume most of our major enterprise customers are not all-Microsoft shops and/or are not running...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 07/14/2009

Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson

Technorati Tags: Personal Normally I like to post about Visual Studio VSTS and TFS related...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 06/29/2009

TFS Web Access – How Far Does it Scale?

Technorati Tags: VSTS,TFS,VSTS2008,TFS2008 This is one I’ve been meaning to post for awhile. If...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 06/17/2009

Free Hosted Trials Team Foundation Server

This cool update came across my desk last week. We are now providing free hosted trials of Team...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 06/16/2009

Compatibility for TFS 2010

Several of you emailed that the link to TFS 2010 Beta 1compatibility information was incorrect....

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 06/16/2009

TFS Beta 1 Information

Dev10 Beta 1 has shipped! We are really excited to have you trying our Beta and giving us feedback....

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 06/15/2009

Great TFS Videos

A customer asked me this morning for some demo videos to show TFS to his team. As I was pulling...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 04/14/2009

Team System Website Overhaul – What do you Think?

As I bet many of you have noticed, we’ve been systematically overhauling the VSTS website. You’ve...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 04/09/2009

TFS Redmond Product Team to be at the Down Town Seattle User Group April 8th

If you’re living in the greater Seattle area and are curious about any of the new TFS features...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 04/06/2009

Great Article from Jeff Levinson on why to Upgrade from 2005 to 2008

One of the questions I often get from customers is, what are the primary benefits of the upgrade...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 03/18/2009

New Team System Community Page(s) on MSDN

I’m happy to report that Team System posted a new community page to our MSDN site today! We hear...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 12/11/2008

How MSIT Does Development

MSIT is our internal IT department at Microsoft. I’ve had alot of interest generated from all the...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 12/10/2008

How We Use TFS at Microsoft – Additional Decks from PDC and TechEd EMEA

I’m just catching up on a few things from the Heathrow Airport. It seems there was alot of demand...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 11/16/2008

Agile Development with Visual Studio - Slides

If you’re curious to get an overview of Agile Development in Visual Studio, here are some slides...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 11/10/2008

How Microsoft Does Development (with VSTS)

This morning I am in Las Vegas giving one of the keynotes for VSLive! The conference organizers...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 10/14/2008

VersionOne Integration with TFS

VersionOne, like Rally, builds tools for Agile development. I think it is great that our customers...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 09/09/2008

Agile Tools Integration - Rally Announces Integration with TFS!

Many of you are no doubt familiar with Rally Software, who build a product for agile project...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 06/23/2008

Distributed Development Whitepaper

OK, thanks everyone for the feedback on the distributed development whitepaper. There was enough...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 06/11/2008

Have you ever wondered if there might be a cool way to predict your bug trends? I'm not sure this is...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 04/10/2008

Using VSTS for Distributed Development

One of the questions Soma was asked last year while he was travelling in Europe was, "how can VSTS...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 04/09/2008

VSTS Overview Followup - Does DB Refactoring use Dependencies?

Last week at VSLive! I was asked this good question: I was wondering how the dependencies for...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 04/08/2008

“I want to customize my process in TFS..”

Another question I am frequently asked is: "how can I customize the software development process(es)...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 04/04/2008

Using VSTS for Agile Development

Another question I often get asked is, "What features does VSTS have for Agile development?" This is...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 04/04/2008

SOX Whitepaper is published!

I am happy to announce that we finally have good guidance for our customers who have questions...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 04/03/2008

What's New in VSTS 2008 !

So today I am writing to you from San Francisco. This morning I gave a talk here at VSLive which was...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 03/31/2008

My First Blog Entry

This is my first blog and I'm pretty new to it. Please bear with me as I figure it out. I always...

Author: StephanieSaad Date: 03/21/2008