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  • Tip: Team Member Management with Sub-teams in TFS2012 & TFS2013

    Do you work on a project that has multiple teams (aka. “subteams”)?  If you’re using Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS2012) or Team Foundation Server 2013 (TFS2013), you probably have those subteams all inside of a single TFS Team Project.  If you go to the Team administration page for your Team Project, it might look something…

  • PSF Scrum Training in Boston (11/11/2013–11/12/2013)

    Looking for Scrum training for you or your team?  Well, I’ll be teaching the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) course in Brookline, MA on November 11, 2013 through November 12, 2013.  (registration info) This 2-day course prepares students to effectively use Scrum through a combination of hands-on exercises and lecture.  Rather than coaching teams back…

  • PSF Scrum Training in Boston (11/11/2013–11/12/2013)

    Looking for Scrum training for you or your team?  Well, I’ll be teaching the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) course in Brookline, MA on November 11, 2013 through November 12, 2013.  (registration info) This 2-day course prepares students to effectively use Scrum through a combination of hands-on exercises and lecture.  Rather than coaching teams back…

  • Scheduling a Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) course in Boston for Fall 2013

    Readers of this blog can probably guess that I teach private Scrum classes to companies.  Well, I’m thinking about trying something new and offering a public course in Boston sometime this fall.  The course would be the 2-day Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) course and it would run somewhere in Boston, Brookline, or Cambridge.  This 2-day…

  • Load Testing with Visual Studio 2012 course is available at Pluralsight

    My third course for Pluralsight went live this morning!  Load Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Is your application slow? Do you want to make sure it *isn’t* slow? Want to know what happens when a lot of people start using you application? Well, Visual Studio 2012’s Load Testing tools can help you out. Performance testing…

  • How to upgrade TFS2008 Conchango projects to TFS2012 Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum

    I recently finished up a huge Team Foundation Server migration and Scrum training project for a well-known, global accounting firm.  They were running Team Foundation Server 2008 (TFS2008) and wanted to upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 3 (TFS2012.3).  They had approximately 175 Team Projects and about 100 of those projects were using the…

  • Validation & Extraction Rules for Visual Studio 2012 Web Performance Tests

    (Update August 5, 2014: The latest version now has the ability to do math as part of your web performance and load tests.) I’ve been doing a lot of work with Visual Studio 2012 Web Performance Tests and as part of that, I’ve written a handful of custom Validation Rules and Extraction Rules.  I think…

  • Radio TFS Episode 63: Conchango to TFS2012 Scrum upgrades

    I was a guest on Radio TFS today and we talked a lot about the recent work I did upgrading a customer’s TFS2008 Conchango projects to TFS2012.2 Scrum.  Here’s a link to the episode. -Ben   — Do you have a pile of Conchango projects that you’d like upgraded to Team Foundation Server 2012 or…

  • Fix: ASP.NET Web Deploy ‘ERROR COULD NOT CONNECT TO REMOTESVC’ error

    I was playing around with deploying an ASP.NET application to a server using Web Deploy in Visual Studio 2012 and I go this annoying little error.  I’d fill out the dialog for publishing via Web Deploy and when I’d click “Validate Connection” it would run and eventually fail.  The problem turned out to be “user…

  • Fix: ASP.NET Web Deploy ‘ERROR COULD NOT CONNECT TO REMOTESVC’ error

    I was playing around with deploying an ASP.NET application to a server using Web Deploy in Visual Studio 2012 and I go this annoying little error.  I’d fill out the dialog for publishing via Web Deploy and when I’d click “Validate Connection” it would run and eventually fail.  The problem turned out to be “user…

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