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Musings on Project Management, Work Item Tracking and Reporting from the TFS team
This blog is closing. This will be the last post.
Please see our new “Team Foundation Server team blog”, which contains postings from all of TFS. This...
Date: 03/01/2010
Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010: Part 6: Rich SQL Reporting Services Reports
I started this series with a set of topics and broke the first one down into sub topics to cover the...
Date: 02/23/2010
Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010: Part 5: SharePoint Foundation Dashboard
In my last post, I covered the topic on creating a team dashboard. Let’s look at the dashboard...
Date: 02/18/2010
Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 4: SharePoint Dashboards: Creating a team dashboard
In my last post, I covered customizing the SharePoint Server dashboard. The next topic is creating a...
Date: 02/02/2010
Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 3: SharePoint Dashboards: SharePoint Server dashboard customization
In my last post, I covered the out-of-the-box experience with SharePoint Server dashboard. Let’s...
Date: 01/07/2010
Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 2: SharePoint Dashboards: SharePoint Server dashboard
In my last post, I outlined the out-of-the-box reporting options available in 2010: SharePoint...
Date: 01/05/2010
Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 1: Introduction
This is the first chapter in the series on Reporting in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010. In this...
Date: 01/05/2010
TFS 2010 Beta2: Troubleshooting SharePoint configuration issues (TF249038).
In configuring the integration between Team Foundation Server and SharePoint Products, one of the...
Date: 11/24/2009
Compatibility Matrix for 2010 Beta 2 Team Foundation Server to Team Explorer 2008 and 2005
Table of Contents Principles Definitions Available Download Compat Matrix...
Date: 10/19/2009
Team Explorer 2005 & 2008 & 2010 Beta 1 Compatibility Matrix
Although many scenarios have been enabled in the VSTS Beta 1, there are a number of compatibility...
Date: 10/12/2009
Restarting the TFS Add-Inn (Excel 2007) Updated
· These instructions will help determine if the Team Add-In is disabled in Excel and will allow you...
Date: 08/21/2009
Customizing Work Item Link Types in TFS 2010
A long time ago (almost 2 years ago), I blogged about how to customize link types. Since the Beta1...
Date: 06/05/2009
Forward Compat GDRs for Team Foundation Server 2010!
TFS will be providing a General Distribution Release (GDR) to enable older versions of Visual Studio...
Date: 06/01/2009
SharePoint Integration in TFS 2010 Beta1
Last month, Brian Harry outlined some of the new features in the setup and administration experience...
Date: 06/01/2009
Team Explorer 2010 Beta 1 Compatibility
Although many scenarios have been enabled in the VSTS Beta 1, there are a number of compatibility...
Date: 05/18/2009
Team Foundation Server 2010 - Relational Warehouse and Cube Schema Changes
Team Foundation Server 2010 is a BIG release for us by all counts. We have made conceptual changes;...
Date: 05/16/2009
Previous State and State Change Count
Today I am going to look at two interesting fields in the Warehouse related to Work Items – Previous...
Date: 04/29/2009
Work Item rules workaround: Cannot close task unless Remaining Work is zero
In the last post in this series, Gregg blogged about restricting a bug such that only the creator...
Date: 04/24/2009
Work Item Rules Workaround: Only the creator of the bug can close the bug
In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about saving the resolved reason. (You’ve probably...
Date: 04/03/2009
CodePlex Tool: WIT Synchronizer
I just saw that Loic Baumann posted a tool on codeplex called WIT Synchronizer. It provides two...
Date: 04/01/2009
Work Item rules workaround: Saving the resolved reason
In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about securing a work item type. Another question...
Date: 03/31/2009
Work Item Rules Workarounds: Secure creation of a work item type
In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Deactivating a work item type. Here’s another...
Date: 03/31/2009
Work Item rules workaround: Deactivating a work item type
In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about forcing selection of reason. Let’s take a look...
Date: 03/24/2009
TFS Warehouse Work Item Tracking Compensating Records
Compensating Records What are compensating records? First a little background. Whenever a work item...
Date: 03/20/2009
Work Item Rules Workarounds: Force selection of Reason
In our last post in this series, Sunder blogged about Closing down an iteration. Let’s take a look...
Date: 03/17/2009
Work Item rules workaround: Closing down an iteration
In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about validating area path. Let’s take a look at...
Date: 03/10/2009
Building lightweight dashboards using Excel
TFS work items can provide a wealth of information that can be used for decision making and...
Date: 02/12/2009
Work Item Rules Workarounds: Validating Area Path
There are many times when we get asked how to implement seemingly basic scenarios with the work item...
Date: 02/07/2009
Conchango releases Task Board Beta!
Conchango has been working on a cool Task Board application for folks using their Scrum template....
Date: 10/03/2008
New Power Tool for handling display name change in TFS
In an earlier post, Dan had posted the details on how a display name change in Windows or Active...
Date: 07/17/2008
How Microsoft/Dev Div uses TFS - Chapter 9 (Transparency in Reporting)
I apologize for not getting this post out sooner. I was not feeling well most of last week. In a...
Date: 06/09/2008
Using TFS, Excel, and Agile to deliver on time and on budget
We just finished our first real sprint using TFS, Excel, and the Agile process. One of the things...
Date: 06/04/2008
How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS-Chapter 7 (Tracking Risk)
In the previous post, I talked about tracking progress across multiple projects. Here I'll talk...
Date: 05/16/2008
How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 6 (Addendum)
In my previous post, some people asked how we went about creating the report I talked about. I asked...
Date: 05/14/2008
How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 6 (Tracking multiple projects)
In a previous post, I talked about the electronic status report. Basically, our status report was...
Date: 05/06/2008
TFS Send Mail for Team Explorer
As Brian Harry noted in his Blog, Orcas SP1 will have the ability to email a list of work items from...
Date: 04/30/2008
LINQ to WIQL
Someone showed me this post, and I thought I would pass it along.
Date: 04/30/2008
How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 5 (Tracking Progress)
Before we talk about tracking progress, it might be useful to review the feature crew lifecycle as...
Date: 04/29/2008
New Rosario specifications available
In an effort to gather your feedback very early on in the development process, we started publishing...
Date: 04/25/2008
TFS Sticky Buddy from Martin Hinshelwood
Martin has put out a cool tool on CodePlex: Sticky Buddy! It provides a WPF-based graphical...
Date: 04/22/2008
How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 4
In the previous posts, I spoke about how we used TFS to implement the process. In this post, I'll...
Date: 04/18/2008
How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 3 (Addendum)
Michiel sent in a question about this blog post that I thought I would answer to everyone. The...
Date: 04/17/2008
How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 3 (Implementing the Process)
In previous posts and I talked about out processes. Today I'm going to introduce how we implemented...
Date: 04/14/2008
Rich text in work items
It is probably common knowledge by now that the history and html fields allow rich text input. Since...
Date: 04/09/2008
Restarting the TFS Add-Inn (Excel 2007)
· These instructions will help determine if the Team Add-In is disabled in Excel and will allow...
Date: 04/03/2008
How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 2 (Feature Crews)
One of the issues that Microsoft has to deal with on a very large scale is that while they are...
Date: 04/03/2008
How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 1 (Our Process)
Introduction Many times, we have been asked: “How does Microsoft uses Team Foundation...
Date: 03/27/2008
FAQ #8: Is there a way to clear a field when another field changes?
Another question posed recently on an internal alias. The answer from Naren Datha:...
Date: 03/24/2008
FAQ #7: Can I combine a list of valid TFS users and a fixed list to present as an option for an "Assigned To" field?
This question came in on an internal alias. The answer from Naren Datha: <ALLOWEDVALUES...
Date: 03/23/2008