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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
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
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:07 PM

LINQ to WIQL

Someone showed me this post , and I thought I would pass it along.
Posted by Gregg Boer | 2 Comments
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"
Posted by Gregg Boer | 7 Comments
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 | 11 Comments
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:44 PM

Rich text in work items

It is probably common knowledge by now that the history and html fields allow rich text input. Since there is no toolbar to edit rich text, I have seen users even compose text in editors like Microsoft Word and then paste it in the work item. But looks
Posted by sunder | 8 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 | 13 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
Posted by Gregg Boer | 12 Comments
Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:34 PM

Project Server or Team Foundation Server? Project Server AND Team Foundation Server!

I have been cross posting at this blog as well as at http://blogs.msdn.com/ameyab . Going forward, I will be posting my blog posts at http://blogs.msdn.com/ameyab only. I will post a link to my TFS specific blog posts on this blog. Two reasons for doing
Posted by Ameya | 1 Comments
Friday, February 22, 2008 8:38 PM

Demo - tutorial: Building a TFS report using Report Designer

I gave a talk to an internal team sometime last year on building TFS reports. The talk was recorded and I rediscovered that video a few days ago. I did a couple of report-building demos during the talk. Here's one of them:       Ameya Bhatawdekar
Posted by Ameya | 3 Comments
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