Practical Process Improvement (Part 3)
In the last post in this series I discussed the process involved around the first part of the ideal bug process. In this post I will finish up the rest of the process and metrics for handling bugs. Fixed, unverified This state indicates the bug has
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MVP TV rescheduled
Unfortunately, the MVP TV session “Gaze Into the Crystal Ball: Reporting in Team System” session had to be rescheduled
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 the first beer… apologies, John). Very informal, yet filled with a lively assortment of
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
Easily Output the Built-in Team Build 2008 Properties
Anyone who was worked with MSBuild to customize Team Build knows the pains of debugging your build scripts and that many times it resorts to outputting property and item values out with the message task. There is also the major issue of just knowing what each built in property contains and not mixing
Log on as Service
You need to add the Log on as Service right to the TfsService account when installing Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008. (And for that matter, TFS 2005.) So, how do you do that? If you’re not an IT Admin type, it can be difficult to find. The best practice is to have the IT folks do this
Kick off TechEd with NWC at PreCon!
You know that Spring is finally here when TechEd is just around the corner! Microsoft TechEd 2008 Developers is the first week of June, registration is open, and the Session Catalog is posted