All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business.
If you were buying a car, or a TV, you as the purchaser would do your best to understand the product that you are buying, the quality tradeoffs, and the capabilities. So why is so much of software opaque to the business? Why does the business have a fire-and-forget mentality and little interest in understanding […]
Can the Definition of Done change per Sprint?
I was asked this question today and I think there is a clear answer, however it may change depending on the context of the question. “During each Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team plans ways to increase product quality by improving work processes or adapting the definition of “Done”, if appropriate and not in conflict with […]
Applying Professional Scrum (APS) Course with Certification
The Applying Professional Scrum (APS) course is a 2-day course that teaches Scrum by experiencing what it’s like to build software using the Scrum framework. Working in a series of Sprints, students break into Scrum Teams fulfilling all of the roles on a team to build a software application, simulating real-life problems.
Branch Policies for TFVC
Have you looked enviously at the Branch Policy feature for Git in TFS or VSTS? Are you stuck on TFVC? How would you implement Branch Policies on TFVC? Find out…
Issue [ TFS 2013 ] Value cannot be null. Parameter name: key
When customising your process template work item tracking gives you an “ArgumentNullException: value cannot be null. Parameter name key” exception with no more details.
Visual Studio 2013 and TFS 2013 are released, get yours now! Oh and Windows 8.1…
Microsoft just made both Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 available for download on MSDN and on http://visualstudio.com. This release includes Visual Studio 2013, .NET 4.5.1, and Team Foundation Server 2013 as well as making Windows 8.1 available on Windows Update.
PowerShell TFS 2013 API #2 – Adding to a GlobalList
Using the TFS 2013 API along with a little PowerShell we can add a ‘team field’ to our global list.
PowerShell TFS 2013 API #1 – Get TfsCollection and TFS Services
Have you ever wanted to use PowerShell to interact with the TFS 2013 API? Well I have been working through a few scenarios and wanted to get them to you so that I can get some feedback.
Creating a custom Activity for Team Foundation Build
You can be creating a custom activity for Team Foundation Build in a few simple steps. There are always advanced steps but this will get you started.
Customise the colours in Team Foundation Server 2013 Agile Planning Tools
If you want to customise the colours in Team Foundation Server 2013 Agile Planning Tools you need to download and edit the Process Configuration file that tells TFS how to configure many of the features in the Web Access.