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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:31 PM

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 along these lines: “How can I save the resolved reason? I want to create metrics based on how bugs were resolved, but the value of the ‘Reason’ field is
Posted by sunder | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:44 PM

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 popular request: “Secure creation of a work item type”. For example, people say: “Only my Testers can create bugs” “Only my Business Analysts can create
Posted by Gregg Boer | 5 Comments
Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:38 PM

Building lightweight dashboards using Excel

TFS work items can provide a wealth of information that can be used for decision making and analysis, answering questions like: Are we on track? Is our bug debt growing or shrinking? What is our incoming/fix/close rate? and many others… One way of keeping
Posted by bamodio | 12 Comments
Attachment(s): Sample Dashboard.xlsm
Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:14 PM

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 Directory doesn't automatically get updated in all the areas in TFS. We had a tool to help address this issue that was available only through our Customer
Posted by sunder | 5 Comments
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 | 4 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
Posted by Gregg Boer | 3 Comments
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
Posted by Gregg Boer | 7 Comments
 
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