TFS & Visual Studio ALM – by Neno Loje

(formerly Team System, VSTS)

Entries Tagged as 'Project Management with TFS'

Available Check-In Policies for Team Foundation Server 2012

October 15th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Version Control, Tools and Utilities, Visual Studio Online

Shipping as part of Visual Studio 2012: Builds – Requires that build was successful (CI builds) and therefore build breaks must be fixed before a new check-in. Changeset Comments Policy – Requires that user provide comments on check-ins. (new in VS 2012) Code Analysis – Requires that Code Analysis is run before check-in. [More] Work […]

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Scrum Release Burndown chart: No data available

March 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Project Management with TFS, TFS Reporting

Problem The Release Burndown (from the VS Scrum 1.0 template) stays empty and shows "No data available". How to fix Make sure to specify Start / End Date on the corresponding Sprint work item. Wait until the warehouse is refreshed (or invoke it manually). (Thanks thanks to Ruiz Yi for his post on MSDN Forums)

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Workflows of MSF Agile and CMMI Process Templates for TFS

January 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments · 1531, Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, TFS Process Customization

When trying to decide which of the two MSF Process Templates – Agile vs. CMMI Process Improvement – for TFS is the right starting point for your company, it helps to compare the work item types and its workflows. You can download the full guidance from: MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance MSF for […]

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Ways to access Team Foundation Server

October 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Project Management with TFS, Team Explorer, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2005, TFS 2008, TFS Clients, Third-Party Solutions, VSTS

Pick your favorite tool for your task/job: From Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2008: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer (+ SP1) Visual Studio 2005: Visual Studio Team System 2005 Team Explorer (+ SP1) older Visual Studio versions and VSS clients: via MSSCCI-Provider* (includes Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic, MS […]

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Using TFS to develop custom SharePoint applications

October 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2008, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, Training and Learning, VSTS

Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications Summary: Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server to support SharePoint application development, and provide an integrated development environment and single source code repository for process activities, integrated progress reporting, and team roles. (12 printed pages) Author: Microsoft Corporation, September 2008 Link: […]

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How Microsoft uses Team Foundation Server internally

August 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, TFS Administration, VSTS

A good read: Applying Value Up at Microsoft by Sam Guckenheimer(also available as 60-minute-webcast)(see also: attached image about Scenarios, Value Props, Experiences, Features) Managing work for Team System by Jeff Beehler Internal TFS Usage: Tracking Customer Value by Siddharth Bathia Dependency Management by Siddharth Bathia How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS – Chapter 1 (Our Process) by […]

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Using images in description fields

August 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Project Management with TFS, Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS Work Item Tracking, VSTS

Requires: The use of HTML description fields in stead of the default description field. Team System Web Access (TSWA) to insert the pictures.   Steps: Use a HTML fields for your descriptions instead of plan text fields(might need to copy the old descriptions programmatically). Add the image you want to use to the work item’s […]

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FIX: An unexpected error occurred while trying to add a web part to a project portal in TFS 2005

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Downloads, Issues and Hotfixes, Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2005, TFS Administration, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication

Due to a lot of requests about this pretty common problem. Steps you did: You browsed for a web part: You selected one and hit “Add”: You got the error message: “An unexpected error occurred.” This is a know issue with WSS 2.0 and a hot fix [1] can be requested at Microsoft which corrects […]

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Known Work Item History Limitations for Links & Attachments

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2005, TFS 2008, TFS Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting TFS

They are two major problems when looking into the history with regard to links. 1. No clue what has changed:If you remove an attachment and add a completely different one the history will indicate that there was a change (revision gets in incremented by 1), but it won’t tell you what has changed since TFS […]

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V-Modell XT Generator creates TFS Process Templates

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Downloads, Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), Project Management with TFS, TFS Process Customization, Tools and Utilities

Microsoft Germany [1], The Center of Software Concepts at the Technical University of Munich [2] and Zühlke [3] released the V-Modell XT Generator [4] that creates process templates for working with the V-Modell, which is a process modell widely asked for by German customers working for the public sector. It is available via Codeplex. Congratulations […]

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