by Martin Hinshelwood
A few weeks ago I headed out to the Scrum.org offices in Boston to participate in training to become an Engagement Manager for Agility Path. I was talking to my father about it when I got back and was surprised …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was asked by current customer to come up with a solution, within TFS, to allow an entire division to work together in delivering software for a bank. This divisions made up of over 10 teams than work on many …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was recently asked to speak at ALM Days in Dusseldorf and more specifically to create a talk on Metrics and KPI’s for Quality. As I have been working a lot recently with evidence-based management.
by Martin Hinshelwood
While naked ALM Consulting can help you install and configure TFS you may want to take advantage of the upcoming TFS Upgrade Weekend from Microsoft for free.
by Martin Hinshelwood
With the release of Visual Studio 2013 we now have release management built right into the product that we can use to build a scalable release pipeline. It’s not perfect but it does hit the spot.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Have you seen how easy it is to install Release Management 2013 and configure it with with Visual Studio 2013? See Martin install and configure the new Visual Studio 2013 Release Management Server, Client, and Deployment Agent all in under …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Unless you have been living under a rock you might have noticed that Microsoft has added a Release Management tool to its Visual Studio product line. I have been playing with it for a while now and I think I …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Last week I was onsite with a customer who was trying to do automated release and test with Lab Management. I showed him a better way by execute Tests with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Have you ever tried to move your Active Directory domain to another server? Its not as easy as it looks. Here is some of the things that you need to do and look out for,
by Martin Hinshelwood
Installing TFS 2013 from scratch is easy and take only minutes, even for an advanced install. See Martin show both a Basic and Standard Single Server install within an Active Directory domain.
by Martin Hinshelwood
As a consultant I am onsite at a different customer every week and as I use my own laptop for most engagements I need to be able to change the Release Management Server that I connect to from the thick …
by Martin Hinshelwood
With the addition of the new Release Management Client for Visual Studio 2013 to the Visual Studio ALM roundup many folks are going to be giving it a go. If you might remember some of my post during the preview …
by Martin Hinshelwood
When you try to add a group from Active Directory in the Release Management Client in Visual Studio 2013 you get an unhandled exception.
by Martin Hinshelwood
As my first engagement as naked ALM Consulting in the UK I got to work with the fantastic team at DFDS Seaways and teach the Professional Scrum course from Scrum.org.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, that’s me started ALM Consulting in Scotland, UK & Europe as naked ALM Consulting – Martin Hinshelwood. As I write this I am on a train on my way to my first engagement in the north of England is …
by Martin Hinshelwood
When customising your process template work item tracking gives you an “ArgumentNullException: value cannot be null. Parameter name key” exception with no more details.
by Martin Hinshelwood
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 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Using the TFS 2013 API along with a little PowerShell we can add a ‘team field’ to our global list.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Now that I have had two months with the Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook I thought that it would be a good idea to give you an update. You can check out Part #1 & #2 below however in …
by Martin Hinshelwood
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.