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Tell us what you think about Project Management and Eventing

I'm Dan Kershaw, the other Program Manager on the Work Item Tracking team (Gregg's counter-part).  I joined the Team Foundation Server team almost 2 years ago (initially working on admin and operations) mainly because this product looked ground-breaking, and had the capability to change the way companies do appliction lifecyle managment.  Even better, now the product is out there, we're really starting to see the impact it can make, which is truely exciting.  However we constantly strive to improve the product, and extend it in areas where we hope we can provide real customer value.

My main focuses are similar to Gregg's:  Enabling teams to more easily manage and track the progress of their projects.  I'm also interested in making improvements to our eventing sub-system (subscriptions, notifications, alerts etc), so folks on the project can always stay up to date on the important events that are going on.

If you have any feedback on what you'd like to see improved, or something new in either Project Management or in the eventing sub-system, please let us know,  We'll be very interested to hear what you think.

 

Published Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:26 PM by dkershaw

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# re: Tell us what you think about Project Management and Eventing

Friday, March 16, 2007 12:51 PM by ChrisTullier

One thing I always hear from clients is that they want more control over project alerts.  Out of the box there are 4 basic events.  They want to be able to do things like only send email notifications when I get assigned a new work item, only when I get assigned to a specific work item type, only when a task is assigned to me and enters a particular work flow state or has a particular reason for entering that state (like a regression on a QOS requirement).  A simple business rules engine would do nicely.  By being able to generically set conditions on any work item field TFS could fill any of these scenarios.  It should be easy to use like the work item query builder.  This would fill a gap currently filled by custom code that hooks into the work item eventing system (which is quite easy to use by the way, thanks for that).

# re: Tell us what you think about Project Management and Eventing

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:46 PM by ChrisTullier

After some poking around I found this tool that saves alot of time doing subscriptions.  http://blogs.msdn.com/narend/archive/2006/07/26/679440.aspx

# re: Tell us what you think about Project Management and Eventing

Monday, April 23, 2007 12:13 AM by sgryphon

With TFS now extending from just development to encompass the entire lifecycle from requirements through to test, you should probably consider it's competitive position against other tools, e.g. requirements management.

For example, you might want to submit it to the INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) Requirements Management Tools Survey (http://www.paper-review.com/tools/rms/read.php) so we can see how it compares against other requirements management tools.

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