Full-fidelity history and data migration are mutually exclusive
If you have ever had to migrate data from any system that contains lots of data and especially history then you will have run into this problem. Effectively you have two choices: Upgrade with full history, correct dates and uninterrupted reporting Migrate with tip/full history with truncated dates and no past reporting This is also […]
Process Template Upgrade #7 – Rename Work Items and Import new ones
A little while ago I was looking into the best options for upgrading a process template but still keep your data intact, but there is still a little bit of ambiguity on how that is achieved. Although the original list had only #6 options lets look at the #7 option… Update 2013-06-18 Neno pointed out […]
Unit Testing against the Team Foundation Server 2012 API
I have been working a lot recently with the new Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview) that Microsoft is providing in Azure. I was building an application called TFS Field Annotate that allows you to spelunk a fields changes. One of the problems I ran into is how to Unit Test this. I have been doing […]
TFS Field Annotator
Do you make lots of edits to your TFS Work Items? Do you ever look at a field in the UI and think… last time I looked that was a 4? Why is it a 6? Who changed it? if you have, then the TFS Field Annotate is for you. Connect to TFS, select a […]
TFS Service Credential Viewer
If you want to connect to the Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview) API you are going to need some credentials in order to connect. That’s right, where do you expect to store your Live ID for connecting? Do you expect to add it to the windows credentials store? What about having the user manually add […]
You can’t stack rank hierarchical work items?
At the MVP Summit I was appalled by the number of people who asked questions about new features for supporting hierarchical tasks! I shared a disgusted look with Peter Provost and we had a quick (and I mean really quick) conversation that resulted in this post. it really comes down to one thing: You can’t […]
Visual Studio 11 Upgrade Health Check
With the launch of Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server Beta and the Go-Live licencing model you can go into production now. But what if you are not quite ready? Figure: Go-Live with Visual Studio 11 with our help With the success of the Scrum Health Check we are expanding the family of Health Check […]
Upgrading from TFS2010 to Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server in production
Upgrading from Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server to Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server beta is very easy and as we have seen, fully supported in production. Today I got the new bits and I an going to upgrade our Northwest Cadence production server. You need a couple of things before you get started: […]
I messed up my work items from Excel! What now?
When you do a lot of editing in Excel you will sometimes make mistakes. If you are in the unfortunate situation that ended up publishing back changes to 100+ work items that you did not want to change then you can be in a world of hurt. I have a customer who has done just […]
Is ALM a useful term?
I was asked this question by Robert Myers for a “paper” and I think that it is an important one. I started to answer in that little textbox that LinkedIn give you and I got a little carried away. I guess I am an writing mode >>Do you think ALM is a useful term? Yes, […]