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Monday, June 09, 2008 4:35 PM

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 previous post , I talked about how we used TFS to implement the practice of Quality Gates. In this post, I'll talk some of the reports that were used to e
Posted by Gregg Boer | 6 Comments
Friday, May 23, 2008 6:55 PM

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS-Chapter 8 (Tracking Quality Gates)

In a previous post , I talked about how we tracked risks across multiple projects. In this post, I'll talk about how we tracked quality gates. Let's ponder this for a moment. Let's say at the beginning of the Orcas development cycle, someone very high
Posted by Gregg Boer | 3 Comments
Friday, May 16, 2008 10:44 PM

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 about how we tracked risks across multiple projects. First, let's look at the Progress tab of the Feature record. You'll see two fields related to risk. Risk
Posted by Gregg Boer | 7 Comments
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:45 PM

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 the fellow who created this report internally. Here was his response, which I'm passing on to you. (Thanks Doug!) NOTE: I've also attached the .RDL file
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Attachment(s): FC High Level Summary of Work.rdl
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:50 PM

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 filling a number of fields on a work item. Today, I'm going to show how our Program Manager in charge of managing all the projects for TFS used the information
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:53 PM

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 described in a previous post . The picture below will be a reference point for this post. The picture below shows the "Progress" tab of our "Feature"
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Friday, April 18, 2008 5:37 PM

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 talk about how we went about planning a release. On the feature record, we had a "Planning" tab: Zooming in a bit: What we did is have people enter an estimated
Posted by Gregg Boer | 10 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:03 PM

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 managing 1200 individual features, all of this works on a single code base. With all that activity going on, how do you maintain the quality of the code base,
Posted by Gregg Boer | 11 Comments
Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:51 PM

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

Introduction Many times, we have been asked: “How does Microsoft uses Team Foundation Server”. This series of posts will answer that question (at least in part), by taking you through the processes the Developer Division went through to develop
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:37 PM

Dependency Management

Microsoft is a big place with a huge number of software products in development and a number of those products have dependencies between each other. We've got a pretty rich & consistent process for managing bug across divisions -- but managing software
Posted by sbhatia | 6 Comments
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:38 AM

What improvements to subscriptions and notifications would you like to see?

I'm posting this on behalf of Matthew Moloney -- a PM intern who has joined us from Australia! He's got a query on what sort of improvements you'd like to see in the subscriptions & notifications space in a future release. ------ G'day everyone, I'm
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Friday, January 04, 2008 6:14 PM

FAQ #1: How do you display a field twice on the same WIT form?

Many times I get asked questions, either via forums, in person, email, whatever. Sometimes, I answer the question several times. What I'm going to start doing is posting FAQ entries on this blog as I encounter these questions. Hopefully, you'll find them
Posted by Gregg Boer | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:40 PM

Dashboard Creator - Update (v1.1)

In these four posts ( I , II , III , IV ), I introduced a Dashboard creator that I wrote using Excel+Macros. Many thanks to Ed Blankenship , who pointed out that the XLS file that I had uploaded had a phantom reference to a TFS Server, so when you tried
Posted by Gregg Boer | 2 Comments
Monday, October 29, 2007 5:52 PM

Managing Documentation Projects in Team Foundation Server, Part 3: Reporting Status

Here is the third and last post on a series of posts on managing documentation efforts using TFS. Full credit given to my friend Allen Clark, in our User Education group who provided all the content for these posts. Thank you very much Allen! You guys
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Monday, October 22, 2007 3:42 PM

Managing Documentation Projects in Team Foundation Server, Part 2: Tracking Work Items

Here's the second post on a series of posts on how we use TFS to managing our documentation process. Compliments of Allen Clark. ------ After our monthly planning meeting (discussed in my previous post), we copy the scenarios that we are going to address
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