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New Radio TFS Episode on Adopting Team System with Steven Borg
A few weeks ago during the MVP summit, I had the wonderful experience of hanging out with Martin Woodward of Teamprise and RadioTFS
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Using Excel for Team System Reporting – Video
I created a short video to demonstrate how to use Excel 2007 to create a cumulative flow diagram (often called Remaining Work) that gets its data directly from the OLAP cube used by Team System (TfsWarehouse). The video is currently highlighted on our site, but you can see the whole thing on Vimeo.
VSTS 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Professional for ≈ $3000
If you are an active Gold or Certified Microsoft Partner with either a CDS (Custom Development Solutions) or ISV(Independent Software Vendor)/Software Soltuions Compentency then you have till the end of the year for a great discount on Team Suite. Between October 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008, active
TFS 2008 October Power Tools Released
The Novemberish October TFS 2008 power tools were released over the weekend so grab the download now! Windows shell extension for source control, powershell integration, team
Team Build Event in Portland
Steven Borg of Northwest Cadence (Microsoft Team System MVP) took a road trip to Portland to speak to a very interested audience about the new features of Team Build 2008, an inherent and powerful part of Visual Studio Team System 2008. There were a total of 68 students from 35 different companies
Practical Process Improvement (Part 2)
In my last post I talked about why metrics are important and what the goals are in using metrics. In this post I’ll talk about the bug process. How does your team handle bugs, how can you gather metrics on
Our Upcoming VSTS Events
Although you can always visit our website, and look at our Upcoming Events page to see a list of our upcoming events. However, here’s a quick summary of many of the events we’re either running
VSTS Training – Building Applications using Visual Studio Team System 2008
We’re running our VSTS 5-Day course again, here at our offices at Northwest Cadence on December 8-12, 2008. Get ready for a new year of VSTS productivity by learning the deep ins and outs of VSTS 2008! Here’s a brief blurb. To learn more, send an email to
Portland, OR: Enterprise Build Automation with VSTS 2008 Team System and Team Build
If you’re in the Portland, Oregon area, I’ll be speaking on Enterprise Build Automation. Drop by this free event and learn the characteristics of an Enterprise Build Automation tool, the process to follow, and how to set up automated builds across the entire organization. Code will be
Microsoft combines Development and Database Editions of Team System
Microsoft announced that if you own Team System Development Edition, you will automatically be able to download the Database Edition and vice versa. This is in preparation for there being only a Development version with the just announced Visual Studio Team System 2010 (this will include the Database
Team System 2008 March ‘08 Power Tools
Microsoft is finalizing the release of the Team System 2008 Power Tools and working hard to finish up SP1 which is due out a little later (the Power Tools are now available here).
More Rosario Specs released
Another group of Rosario specs have been recently published on the Rosario Specs website: · TFS Bug Submission Portal · Send Mail from TFS · Work Item Tracking Linking Your
Differences between VS2008 Editions
Rob Caron has put together a wonderful comparison chart between ALL the various versions of Visual Studio 2008. Everything from the Express Editions to Team Suite. And he breaks it down into specific features. I highly recommend taking a look if you’re trying to determine which version is right
Branching Strategies
I hope everyone had a happy new year and a safe holiday season. Now that I’m done with beginning of the year housekeeping I’m back to blogging. This is the second in a series of posts on branching strategies. Branch by Quality is the most complex and flexible branching strategy so this strategy
Branching Strategies
Any and all comments are welcome regarding this series of posts (okay, you can comment on other posts too). We woul appreciate any feedback pointing out alternatives to these strategies, whether they helped you or not and maybe your experiences dealing with branching strategies. This series of posts