by Martin Hinshelwood
Over on the Northwest Cadence blog we are doing a big push on Visual Studio 11 (dev11) content. I and my colleagues will be delivering content on Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server & Visual Studio Team …
by Martin Hinshelwood
We often speak about the basics of scrum and rarely get into the problems and I wanted a session that represented the “next steps” after deciding that this Scrum thing was a good idea. I will, hopefully, be hitting this …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I recently ran into an odd problem at a customer where the local computer accounts of a computer joined to a domain started showing the SID periodically. For those not in the know, this is BAD. WARNING: I did not …
by Martin Hinshelwood
The Process Template governs nearly all aspects of how the team interacts with Visual Studio and TFS (e.g., the structure and flow of work items). Whether a team has a well-established development process or needs to define one, proper template …
by Martin Hinshelwood
How Visual Studio helps teams explore, understand, maintain, and uphold their project’s architecture. Introduction to some basic architecture & design concepts and common trouble spots for teams. This post is part of a series of Visual Studio ALM webcasts that …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), AKA Test Professional, is a new testing system that team can use to create manual and Automation test quickly. The real advantage and strength of MTM is the integration with TFS and Visual Studio 2010 and …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Branching Merging and Build are two parts of the overall software development cycle. In the Branching and Merging session, we cover industries standard approaches to branching and merging, the pros and Cons of the standard approaches, and how each strategy …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Intellitrace was built in response to the #1 and #2 demands from TFS 2008 customers: help us find bugs faster so we can fix them faster. As a configurable “flight data recorder” for all aspects of debug and test, it …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Its hard for developers to work with testers and its hard for testers to work with developers. There are many tools out there to help teams break down those barriers between them and I really like both the features and …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This session shows the Day in the Life of a project using TFS from the context of a Developer, Tester, and Program Manager. The purpose of this session is to give a clear picture of how someone in the role …
by Martin Hinshelwood
A high-level overview of ALM and how the features in Visual Studio 2010 support ALM. This presentation touches on all the features shown in the rest of the deeper-dive sessions. If attendees don’t know which other sessions they want, watching this presentation …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Over the last year I have delivered a variety of high-level overviews of Visual Studio ALM and the features that are available within it. These are all high level overviews even when talking about specific topics, and I have occasionally …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I get a lot of questions about the role of the Project Manger in the world of Scrum and there is usually a lot of hemming and hawing from consultants and Scrum coaches that want to take the touchy-feely approach. …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been working with one of my colleagues, Bryon, over the holidays in order to install both TFS and Lab management at a customer. Now that customer has some awesome hardware, but insisted on a physical TFS server. The …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been told time and again in the office that Scrum is an inflexible platform for developing software as it is way too prescriptive. This is far from reality and represents an invalid interpretation in the rules of the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
There has been a subtle but targeted change in the wording used as part of Scrum. There has bee a move away from commitment towards forecasting what will be completed. Why is this happening and what does it mean to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Sometimes when you setup TFS you find that your users, or just some of them, are being prompted for credentials. While manageable this is annoying and is not really related to TFS. This is an Active Directory thing and yes, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This week I was at the ALM Summit in Redmond. There was a very interesting talk from David Starr of Scrum.org going over the recent changes in Scrum. These changes are, I think, designed to battle the things that have …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Over the last few years the product team has been putting their finishing touches on a backup module for the Team Foundation Server Administration Console. Why you might ask do you need another way to backup? Surely you can just …
by Martin Hinshelwood
It is finally here… just a short time ago Google enabled the ability to have Google Profiles and by extension Google+ on your customer Google Apps domain. However, you first need to enable it before you can use it. Google …