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Musings on Project Management, Work Item Tracking and Reporting from the TFS team

This blog is closing. This will be the last post.

Please see our new “Team Foundation Server team blog”, which contains postings from all of TFS. This...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/01/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010: Part 6: Rich SQL Reporting Services Reports

I started this series with a set of topics and broke the first one down into sub topics to cover the...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 02/23/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010: Part 5: SharePoint Foundation Dashboard

In my last post, I covered the topic on creating a team dashboard. Let’s look at the dashboard...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 02/18/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 4: SharePoint Dashboards: Creating a team dashboard

In my last post, I covered customizing the SharePoint Server dashboard. The next topic is creating a...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 02/02/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 3: SharePoint Dashboards: SharePoint Server dashboard customization

In my last post, I covered the out-of-the-box experience with SharePoint Server dashboard. Let’s...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 01/07/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 2: SharePoint Dashboards: SharePoint Server dashboard

In my last post, I outlined the out-of-the-box reporting options available in 2010: SharePoint...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 01/05/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 1: Introduction

This is the first chapter in the series on Reporting in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010. In this...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 01/05/2010

TFS 2010 Beta2: Troubleshooting SharePoint configuration issues (TF249038).

In configuring the integration between Team Foundation Server and SharePoint Products, one of the...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 11/24/2009

Compatibility Matrix for 2010 Beta 2 Team Foundation Server to Team Explorer 2008 and 2005

Table of Contents Principles Definitions Available Download Compat Matrix...

Author: John Nierenberg_Bing Date: 10/19/2009

Team Explorer 2005 & 2008 & 2010 Beta 1 Compatibility Matrix

Although many scenarios have been enabled in the VSTS Beta 1, there are a number of compatibility...

Author: John Nierenberg_Bing Date: 10/12/2009

Restarting the TFS Add-Inn (Excel 2007) Updated

· These instructions will help determine if the Team Add-In is disabled in Excel and will allow you...

Author: John Nierenberg_Bing Date: 08/21/2009

A long time ago (almost 2 years ago), I blogged about how to customize link types. Since the Beta1...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 06/05/2009

Forward Compat GDRs for Team Foundation Server 2010!

TFS will be providing a General Distribution Release (GDR) to enable older versions of Visual Studio...

Author: John Nierenberg_Bing Date: 06/01/2009

SharePoint Integration in TFS 2010 Beta1

Last month, Brian Harry outlined some of the new features in the setup and administration experience...

Author: jontsao Date: 06/01/2009

Team Explorer 2010 Beta 1 Compatibility

Although many scenarios have been enabled in the VSTS Beta 1, there are a number of compatibility...

Author: John Nierenberg_Bing Date: 05/18/2009

Team Foundation Server 2010 - Relational Warehouse and Cube Schema Changes

Team Foundation Server 2010 is a BIG release for us by all counts. We have made conceptual changes;...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 05/16/2009

Previous State and State Change Count

Today I am going to look at two interesting fields in the Warehouse related to Work Items – Previous...

Author: nericson Date: 04/29/2009

Work Item rules workaround: Cannot close task unless Remaining Work is zero

In the last post in this series, Gregg blogged about restricting a bug such that only the creator...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 04/24/2009

Work Item Rules Workaround: Only the creator of the bug can close the bug

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about saving the resolved reason. (You’ve probably...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 04/03/2009

CodePlex Tool: WIT Synchronizer

I just saw that Loic Baumann posted a tool on codeplex called WIT Synchronizer. It provides two...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 04/01/2009

Work Item rules workaround: Saving the resolved reason

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about securing a work item type. Another question...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 03/31/2009

Work Item Rules Workarounds: Secure creation of a work item type

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Deactivating a work item type. Here’s another...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/31/2009

Work Item rules workaround: Deactivating a work item type

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about forcing selection of reason. Let’s take a look...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 03/24/2009

TFS Warehouse Work Item Tracking Compensating Records

Compensating Records What are compensating records? First a little background. Whenever a work item...

Author: nericson Date: 03/20/2009

Work Item Rules Workarounds: Force selection of Reason

In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Closing down an iteration. Let’s take a look...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/17/2009

Work Item rules workaround: Closing down an iteration

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about validating area path. Let’s take a look at...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 03/10/2009

Building lightweight dashboards using Excel

TFS work items can provide a wealth of information that can be used for decision making and...

Author: Ben Amodio Date: 02/12/2009

Work Item Rules Workarounds: Validating Area Path

There are many times when we get asked how to implement seemingly basic scenarios with the work item...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 02/07/2009

Conchango releases Task Board Beta!

Conchango has been working on a cool Task Board application for folks using their Scrum template....

Author: Siddharth Bhatia MSFT Date: 10/03/2008

New Power Tool for handling display name change in TFS

In an earlier post, Dan had posted the details on how a display name change in Windows or Active...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 07/17/2008

How Microsoft/Dev Div uses TFS - Chapter 9 (Transparency in Reporting)

I apologize for not getting this post out sooner. I was not feeling well most of last week. In a...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 06/09/2008

Using TFS, Excel, and Agile to deliver on time and on budget

We just finished our first real sprint using TFS, Excel, and the Agile process. One of the things...

Author: Larry Bynum Date: 06/04/2008

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS-Chapter 7 (Tracking Risk)

In the previous post, I talked about tracking progress across multiple projects. Here I'll talk...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 05/16/2008

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 6 (Addendum)

In my previous post, some people asked how we went about creating the report I talked about. I asked...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 05/14/2008

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 6 (Tracking multiple projects)

In a previous post, I talked about the electronic status report. Basically, our status report was...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 05/06/2008

TFS Send Mail for Team Explorer

As Brian Harry noted in his Blog, Orcas SP1 will have the ability to email a list of work items from...

Author: John Nierenberg_Bing Date: 04/30/2008

LINQ to WIQL

Someone showed me this post, and I thought I would pass it along.

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 04/30/2008

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 5 (Tracking Progress)

Before we talk about tracking progress, it might be useful to review the feature crew lifecycle as...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 04/29/2008

New Rosario specifications available

In an effort to gather your feedback very early on in the development process, we started publishing...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 04/25/2008

TFS Sticky Buddy from Martin Hinshelwood

Martin has put out a cool tool on CodePlex: Sticky Buddy!  It provides a WPF-based graphical...

Author: Siddharth Bhatia MSFT Date: 04/22/2008

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 4

In the previous posts, I spoke about how we used TFS to implement the process. In this post, I'll...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 04/18/2008

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 3 (Addendum)

Michiel sent in a question about this blog post that I thought I would answer to everyone. The...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 04/17/2008

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 3 (Implementing the Process)

In previous posts and I talked about out processes. Today I'm going to introduce how we implemented...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 04/14/2008

Rich text in work items

It is probably common knowledge by now that the history and html fields allow rich text input. Since...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 04/09/2008

Restarting the TFS Add-Inn (Excel 2007)

· These instructions will help determine if the Team Add-In is disabled in Excel and will allow...

Author: John Nierenberg_Bing Date: 04/03/2008

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 2 (Feature Crews)

One of the issues that Microsoft has to deal with on a very large scale is that while they are...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 04/03/2008

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 1 (Our Process)

Introduction Many times, we have been asked: “How does Microsoft uses Team Foundation...

Author: Gregg Boer - TFS Product Team Date: 03/27/2008

FAQ #8: Is there a way to clear a field when another field changes?

Another question posed recently on an internal alias. The answer from Naren Datha:...

Author: Siddharth Bhatia MSFT Date: 03/24/2008

FAQ #7: Can I combine a list of valid TFS users and a fixed list to present as an option for an "Assigned To" field?

This question came in on an internal alias. The answer from Naren Datha: <ALLOWEDVALUES...

Author: Siddharth Bhatia MSFT Date: 03/23/2008

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