My First Blog Entry

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This is my first blog and I'm pretty new to it. Please bear with me as I figure it out. I always appreciate feedback. J

I thought people might be interested in some more information about Visual Studio Team System, especially around our future development plans, and some detail on some particular topics like agile and distributed development. I talk about these things a lot in briefings and conference talks. I got asked Wednesday if I have a blog where this information can just be looked up, thus eliminating the step of actually needing to talk with me. I'm not sure what that means, but I liked the blog idea. J

By now Visual Studio Team System has been in the market long enough that I'm going to assume you know a little bit about it, or you wouldn't have found this blog. If you want to learn more about Team System, MSDN has a nice overview of the suite: https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/bb933734.aspx. I am a Group Manager in Visual Studio Team System. I was one of the founding members of the Database Edition and a member of the planning team for the VSTS 2008 and Rosario releases, today I run the development team that delivers Agile solutions on top of VSTS, the VSTS Process Team.

I myself love Team System. I genuinely think the people here work very hard to build a tool that you will love and we can use ourselves. There is really no mystery to how we are doing software development here – we listen very very hard to our customers, and then try to prioritize and build what you need as rapidly and efficiently as we can. I'd love to share more information with you and always like to hear comments.

Thanks!
Steph

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2008
    how did you created this blog. i am also trying to create one. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2008
    Any thoughts on creating a really simple, no extra fluff XP process template for TFS 2008?  I know there is one on codeplex, but the author admits it is just the MSF Agile template slightly modified.

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2008
    I have been working with Stephanie for several years now and so I was super excited tickled to see that

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2008
    Hi Stephanie! Great to see that you've begun to blog! Jeff (the other Jeff)

  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    April 08, 2008
    Hi We are currently developing our own process template. One of the biggest issues we have faced is the limitations within the template designer. We have had to develop our own web services that are hooked to TFS notification subscriptions that do things like auto-adding of tasks for our "Change Request" work item and enforcing of rules that the rules engine does not support. In case we have completely missed something, would you tell us how you would enforce that a datetime field in a workitem when intially entered contains a date greater than 48hrs in the future? This is one of our requirements. Thanks BG

  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2008
    Stephanie,     Congrats on starting the blog. It's exciting to see you joining in the team system space. I can't wait to read your insights here, and mabye you could join in a podcast over at www.radioTFS.com

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2008
    yes you are right Steph we need these Templates ASAP 1- "Basic" Template (just Bugs and Tasks) 2- XP Template but when do you think it will be available ? :)