NDC London 2014: Why TFS no longer sucks and VSO is awesome

I was in London last week to do a talk on why TFS no longer sucks entitled “Second Look, Team Foundation Server & VSO”. I had a tone of preparatory work to do too make the demos smooth. The great god Murphy was however not smiling, but he was not angry. Some errors occurred, but no blue screens. […]
Create a Portfolio Backlog hierarchy in Team Foundation Server 2013

There are many reasons that you would want to Create a Portfolio Backlog hierarchy in Team Foundation Server 2013 not least of which is modelling your existing processes.
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.
TFS 2012 Agile Planning Tools Issue – nested tasks makes the parent task disappear

You should use nested PBI’s and never nested Tasks when you are using the Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server Agile Planning Tools and here is why. At some point you take your “Product Backlog Item” and break it down into sub items as part of your development process. This is part of the creation […]