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Slides from “Software Testing with VS2013 and TFS2013” at Visual Studio Live Orlando 2013
I spoke at VSLive Orlando 2013 last month and did a talk called “Software Testing with Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013”. Software Testing with Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 both have a major focus on testing and quality. There are the…
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Slides from “Real World Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2013” at DevTeach Vancouver 2013
I spoke at DevTeach Vancouver 2013 last month and did a talk called “Real World Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2013”. Real World Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2013 You’ve got Team Foundation Server 2013 and you’re looking to do Scrum. Ok. Great. Now what does that mean? What does TFS2013 actually do to help…
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Tip: Streamline PBI management in a multi-team Scrum Backlog with TFS2012 & TFS2013
Ok. So you’re doing Scrum and you’re using Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS2012) or Team Foundation Server 2013 (TFS2013) to plan and manage your work. If you’re like a lot of companies, you’ve got more than one Scrum Team working on different features. Team Foundation Server does a good job of managing multiple teams inside…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Great new feature of TFS Test Hub – “Run using client”
I’ve been part of an on-going discussion with some other Microsoft MVPs and Visual Studio team members about some headaches with Microsoft Test Manager 2012 (MTM 2012) and Microsoft Test Manager 2013 (MTM 2013). As much as I like MTM, it can be a little frustrating to use. On the other hand, Microsoft has been…
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Updated Team Foundation Server 2012 Warehouse Utility
A couple years ago I wrote a utility to help manage rebuilding the Team Foundation Server 2010 data warehouse. I finally got around to upgrading it to work with Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS2012). In addition to working with TFS2012, the new version is a lot smarter about some of the changes related to Team…
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Slides from Git & Team Foundation Server 2012 talk at Fairfield Westchester .NET
As promised, here are my slides from the talk I did last week at the Fairfield Westchester .NET user group on Git & Team Foundation Server 2012. Thanks again to Martin Woodward at Microsoft for his help with the presentation. Git, Team Foundation Server 2012, and Visual Studio 2012 Want distributed version control in Visual…
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TechEd New Orleans 2013: “Scrum Under a Waterfall”
Just wrapped up speaking at Microsoft TechEd New Orleans 2013. As promised, here are the slides from the Scrum Under a Waterfall talk that I did this afternoon. Thanks to everyone who came and for all the great questions. Scrum Under a Waterfall It would be so easy if everyone at our companies just used…