by Martin Hinshelwood
Most software teams and their organisations are kalabule (cowboys) in an industry epidemic of lies and deceit. Find out if you are Kalabule or a Professional at Agile in Africa as we dive into what it means to be a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
VSTS Sync Migration Tools allow you to bulk edit data in TFS & VSTS. You can bulk edit work items in place, or even migrate Teams, Backlogs, Tasks, Test Cases, and Plans & Suits to a new TFS or VSTS …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Both as a 1 hour ScrumPulse and a team based workshop for the Dutch ALM UG I did sessions entitled Scaling Professional Scrum with Visual Studio Team Services. I showed how to use Team Services in the scope of multiple …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have had quite a few requests from folks that want to use the full capabilities of VSTS or TFS but really need to have the code published in Github as it is Open-Source. Well I build a few Open-Source …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Since Github is the place to keep your Open Source code I thought that I would migrate some of my CodePlex repos to GitHub. However it is a little more difficult than it looks on the surface.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Do you want to save a file it should be instantly replicated to all your PC’s, and the cloud. What about file history and an infinite recycle bin! That will survive a nuclear strike, or a cup of coffee!
by Martin Hinshelwood
I recent ran into a problem where my OneDrive files were taking up too much space on my main drive and preventing Windows 10 updates on the Insider Program. This works for both OneDrive consumer application and the new OnDrive …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Last year I attended Agile In Africa, an event that I would list as the most fun event I have ever attended.
by Martin Hinshelwood
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…
by Martin Hinshelwood
To implement good DevOps strategies you need to get planning and organisation out of the way of people so that they can focus on delivering value. The value of Scrum is cutting through the chaos and reducing the risk, side …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you get a “Access denied: Project Collection Build Service does not have write permissions for orchestration plan” message then you may have run into a TFS 2015 RTM bug.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Just a week or so ago I was at Microsoft Future Decoded event in London to talk about the new Release Management tools that will be made available at Connect() and that might make it in to TFS 2015 Update 2. …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Once you have Professional Scrum Teams you can focus on enhancing the communication lines that are a necessity of Scaling Software Delivery. Nexus is a framework for using Scrum to scale Scrum from Scrum.org and Ken Schwaber.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Are you doing mechanical Scrum? Also called flaccid Scrum, amateur Scrum, or by-the-book Scrum; all are equally ineffective. If you are not able to ship twice the features in half the time that you used to, then you are probably …
by Martin Hinshelwood
TAG:Ever since TFS 2005 shipped we have been asking ourselves why, oh, why, can’t we rename a Team Project. As each version of the product shipped we hoped beyond hope that this would change and we would get rid of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Microsoft just announced the availability of TFS 2015 and with Go-Live you can install TFS 2015 in production today and be fully supported. I just completed first production successful upgrade for a customer from TFS 2013 to TFS 2015, they …
by Martin Hinshelwood
With the availability of a fully supported version of TFS 2015 I will be upgrading my customers production TFS server to TFS 2015 so that they can get all of the goodies.
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you are setting up to run Team Foundation Server’s vNext build system that Microsoft is previewing on VSO you may hit a “Unable to load task handler PowerShell for task VSBuild with version 1.0.1” error when you try to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
With the release of Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP you should be starting to plan your upgrade strategy. It’s going to be a tough one but you should get ready to upgrade to TFS 2015 now. Mainstream support for TFS …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Using the Build vNext capabilities and demands in VSO is one of the new cool features of the vNext build system being developed by Microsoft on VSO.