Author: Rene van Osnabrugge
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Release Management with InRelease
Originally posted on Jasper Gilhuis: In this post I will highlight the latest addition to the Visual Studio product suite, InRelease. This Release Management tool, which was recently acquired by Microsoft, is meant for bridging the gap between Development and Operations by providing a clear, repeatable, automated deployment procedure. This…
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Use Advanced search when TFS does not find text in work items
Alert: Editing the TFS Collection database is tricky and should be done with extreme care!! Recently I migrated a whole bunch of work items from a StarTeam repository. To keep some of the initial history, I added a some summary in the description field of the work item. This looked…
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Delta-N wins Western European ALM Partner Award
This week I attended the Western European ALM Partner Summit in my role as Business Unit Manager of the ALM unit within Delta-N. The summit was 2 days and was held in Haarlem. The summit is meant for partners who are active in the ALM space and provide them with…
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Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 10 Editing multiple work items at the same time (Bulk Edit) Updated for TFS 2012
In this series of blog posts I like to highlight some features of TFS/Visual Studio that people seem to overlook. In my day to day job I often see that people don’t know about certain feature that are available in Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio or some of the Powertools.…
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Overview of Visual Studio 2013 RC posts
Visual Studio 2013 has just launched. In the meanwhile a great number of bloggers and MVP’s have written great posts about the new features in the VS 2013 RC I will update this post with the latest links. Make sure you keep posted! Updated: 1-10-2013 Here you find an overview…
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Application Lifecycle Management: an introduction for SharePoint people – part 1
My colleague Yuri Burger started this great series on ALM from a SharePoint perspective. This is definitely worth the read if you are busy with SharePoint and ALM.
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A starters guide to Git for TFS GitWits…
When I started my development career way back in 1999, the first Source Control System I ever used was Visual SourceSafe. After a few years I switched to SVN for a while and I liked that. The, in 2005 came Team Foundation Server and I embraced it, including the Source…
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 4) – Sprint
This is the fourth part of the series TFS as perfect tool for Scrum. The series is based on my session that I presented at Microsoft TechDays. You can find more introduction in part 1 The agenda for this series is: 1. Introduction in Scrum and TFS 2. Using TFS…
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Hidden Gems in TFS 2012–Part 9 Image compare in TFS Version Control
In this series of blog posts I like to highlight some features of TFS/Visual Studio that people seem to overlook. In my day to day job I often see that people don’t know about certain feature that are available in Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio or some of the Powertools.…
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Using Local workspaces – Promote Excluded changes with TFS 2012 API
Since the introduction of Local workspaces in TFS 2012 I use them where I can. I really like the concept of local workspaces as it gives me much more flexibility when working with my files. (read more about Server and Local Workspaces in my previous post(s)) Local workspaces are also…
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Teams without Areas–Fixing the reports
As I described in my post about TFS backlog grooming there are several ways to deal with Team in Team Foundation Server 2012. The approach Microsoft uses Out of the Box, is putting a team into the Area Path. The approach I describe in my post puts the team as…
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 3) – Sprint Planning
This is the third part of the series TFS as perfect tool for Scrum. The series is based on my session that I presented at Microsoft TechDays. You can find more introduction in part 1 The agenda for this series is: 1. Introduction in Scrum and TFS 2. Using TFS…
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 2) – Product Backlog Grooming
This is the second part of the series TFS as perfect tool for Scrum. The series is based on my session that I presented at Microsoft TechDays. You can find more introduction in part 1 The agenda for this series is: 1. Introduction in Scrum and TFS 2. Using TFS…
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Keep track of your Team Projects Process Template Version
The company I work for (Delta-N), is a service company. We built software for various customers and we do so by means of projects. It should not surprise you that we maintain all our development projects in Team Foundation Server and, since we use TFS since the first version (TFS…
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Another year as Visual Studio ALM MVP
Yesterday I received it. The “Congratulations 2013 Microsoft MVP!” email. And I must say…I felt relieved. Last year I received the MVP award for the first time so it was my first full year as MVP. In the beginning it felt strange…What Now? What do they expect of me? But…
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Top 10 of things every TFS Administrator should do
I spent a fair amount of time on different social media channels like Twitter (@renevo)and LinkedIn and I noticed an interesting thing. Every time someone posts a Top 10 of things or tips it receives a lot of positive comments. It is a fact. People like lists and I tend…
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 1) – Introduction in Scrum and TFS
This year I was invited again to present at Microsoft TechDays. This event is held every year in the World Forum in The Hague. This year I spoke about why TFS is the perfect tool for Scrum. My session was about how to use TFS as tool for Scrum. I…
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TechDays Netherlands 2013–TFS as perfect tool for Scrum
Today I presented at TechDays Netherlands in the World Forum in The Hague. My session subject was “TFS as perfect tool for Scrum”. My session was about how to use TFS as tool for Scrum. I talked about the different stages of Scrum, and what TFS can do in these…
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How to set up networking for your Hyper-V (TFS) machine
Since a few months I am the happy owner of a great laptop with SSD. Because I am running Windows 8 I can have the possibility to use Hyper-V on my local machine and that’s….Let’s say….GREAT !! Now that I have this possibility, I run my TFS demo machine on…
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Speaking on Techdays 2013
This year I will be speaking again on the largest dutch developer event. Microsoft Techdays 2013. I will do 2 sessions. A full day pre-conference about Scrum. What is it, How can you apply it and what is the role of a tool like TFS within Scrum. The second day…
The Road to ALM 