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ITNAmerica / Microsoft Software + Services Case Study (plus Team Foundation Server)
One of my clients just got featured in a Microsoft case study about Software + Services. ITNAmerica is based in Portland, Maine and provides flexible transportation options for seniors who are no longer able to drive. The Microsoft case study features the scalability and flexibility features of ITN’s SOA-based architecture and their success with Microsoft’s…
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Scrum Developer Training at Microsoft Mountain View, 11/2/09 – 11/6/2009
And in other Team Foundation Server 2010 news… Microsoft has teamed up with Ken Schwaber (scrum.org), the Scrum Alliance, and Accentient to create a course aimed at Scrum teams called the Scrum Developer course. This 5-day course teaches teams and individual developers how to effectively implement Scrum using Team Foundation Server 2010 and Visual Studio…
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Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 Installation Guide
You may have heard that Microsoft released the Beta 2 build of Team Foundation Server 2010 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 a few days ago. You can download the bits from here. If you’re interested in installing Team Foundation Server 2010, I’d like to offer up the alpha version of our installation guide. (PDF, HTML) …
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Beantown Meeting on Thursday, 10/1/2009: James Phillips on SCRUM and Team Foundation Server"
Hi All — Beantown .NET is going to be meeting on Thursday, 10/1/2009. This month we have James Phillips coming to present “SCRUM and Team Foundation Server”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers – better yet, bring your boss. It is not required to RSVP for our…
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A User Interface for VsDbCmd: Deploy/Import Your Database Schema Without Installing Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition
There’s an underappreciated feature in Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition (DbPro) and that’s VsDbCmd.exe. If you’re using DbPro to manage your database schema during development, you’re doing it with Visual Studio installed on your desktop. When you need to deploy changes to production, you do a Database Comparison between your project and your production database…
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Team Foundation Server Branching & Merging Blog
Bill Heys, one of the co-authors of the TFS Branching Guide 2.0 has started up his own blog. Not surprisingly, he’s talking a lot about Branching & Merging with Team Foundation Server. Read up. -Ben
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Some misconceptions about Team Foundation Server & Team System
I’ve gotten a bunch of ‘feedback’ lately from the community about Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). Out of these ‘discussions’ it seems like there might be some misconceptions about VSTS & TFS. Misconception #1: “TFS is just a source control repository” or “TFS is an expensive source control solution” Since…
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My Mistake + Here’s Why I Like Team System
Well, we all make mistakes from time to time and this weekend I made a good one. I’ve written a few posts lately on why I think small businesses need Team System. This weekend I got a comment from Ben Scheirman on my post about the cost of Team System licensing. Ben’s comment was in…
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Small Companies Need Team System 2008: The Licensing Discussion
A few weeks back, I wrote a post suggesting that small companies need Team System just as much – if not more – than big companies. In the comments for that post, I got some feedback about how pricing makes it hard for small organizations to adopt Team System. This one comes from Dave: It…
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My $0.02: Small companies need Team System (VSTS) just as much as big companies.
As you may have noticed, the world economy has been a little under the weather lately. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the economy fits together with VSTS’s mission. Specifically how, as Brian Randell says, “Team System is all about increasing the predictability of success”. Team System has been pitched more at large- and medium-sized…