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Practical Process Improvement (Part 4)

Practical Process Improvement (Part 4)

By Jeff Levinson • on November 14, 2008

In the previous two posts (Part 2 and Part 3) I covered an ideal bug process and the metrics you gather from the process. In this post I’ll

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TFS Reporting Session at Seattle Code Camp

TFS Reporting Session at Seattle Code Camp

By Shad Timm • on November 6, 2008

I will be giving a talk on reporting with TFS at Seattle Code Camp on Sunday, November 16 from 2:45pm to 4:00pm. Metrics that Matter: Reporting with

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Team System

VSTS 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Professional for ≈ $3000

VSTS 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Professional for ≈ $3000

By Shad Timm • on November 14, 2008

If you are an active Gold or Certified Microsoft Partner with either a CDS (Custom Development Solutions) or ISV(Independent Software Vendor)/Software

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Practical Process Improvement (Part 3)

Practical Process Improvement (Part 3)

By Jeff Levinson • on October 31, 2008

In the last post in this series I discussed the

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FUQ

Why is the Estimated Work field not available in TFS Reports?

Why is the Estimated Work field not available in TFS Reports?

By Steven Borg • on October 28, 2008

The Estimated Work field is used to maintain the estimate for a Task work item in the MSF for CMMI Process Template.  However, if you’re creating

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TFS

TFS 2008 October Power Tools Released

TFS 2008 October Power Tools Released

By Shad Timm • on November 11, 2008

The Novemberish October TFS 2008 power tools were released over the weekend so grab the download

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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

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Requirements are not dead.

Hearing many of my fellow agilists talk, you’d think requirements management, and even requirements themselves, have shuffled off their mortal coil.  Unless, of course, they are provided on a 3×5

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MVP TV rescheduled

Unfortunately, the MVP TV session “Gaze

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The Microsoft Borg

I’m heading to Portland to give a presentation on

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AgileBUG - The Agile Beer Users Group

Tonight I attended the Agile Beer Users Group, or AgileBUG for short.  It was a loose get-together hosted by John (who’s last name was quickly forgotten after

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