Video: New with Visual Studio 2013: Manage portfolio backlogs to understand the scope of work
New with Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to manage portfolio backlogs to help you understand the scope of work that you have to do.
Modelling Teams in Team Foundation Server 2013
Do you know what to do with Areas, Iteration, Teams, Source Control, and Security when modelling Teams in Team Foundation Server 2013?
What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server Preview
Steve Ballmer just announced the Visual Studio 2013 Go-Live preview at the Build summit not more than an hour ago so get Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server while its hot! Remember that this Preview is covered by a Go-Live licence and is fully supported for production use.
Release Management with Team Foundation Server 2012
Northwest Cadence has been working hard with customers to improve their release management in Team Foundation Server 2012. While on the surface it looks like TFS 2012 has little in the way of support for release management, you would be wrong. There are many features in Team Foundation Server, many of them added in TFS 2010 that can aid you in creating a release management strategy.
Working within a single Team Project with Team Foundation Server 2012
Working within a single Team Project with Team Foundation Server 2012 provides a lot of benefits. There are however many design consideration for working within a single team project and we need to consider all of the complexities that is entails.
The Insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy
The insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy perpetrated by teams that don’t step up their practices in concert with their planning and don’t really want to make it work anyway. You can fail doing Kanban, XP or Merese and SSADM just as easily. The goal of Agile is to have you fail sooner and for it to cost less.
Standard Environments for Automated Deployment and Testing
Standard Environments in Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server make it possible to have an automated deployment of your software to a development or QA environment. You can then have a bunch of automated tests run in those environments, collecting data all the while.
Continuous value delivery with modern business applications
I have talked before on the new normal for software development as part of the Visual Studio 2012 launch events and Microsoft in itself is not immune to this change.
Professional Scrum Foundations in Alameda, California
Professional Scrum Foundations is my favourite course to teach as it balances fun and learning with practical experience.The Professional Scrum Foundations course is from Scrum.org and, over two days covers all of the core concepts of Scrum.
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 […]