Tag: ALM
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Building an Engineering Culture
In 2011, Marc Andreesen made an often quoted statement “Software Is Eating the World”. Now, about 11 years later I think we can all agree on the fact that this is true and every company has become a software company. Ok ok ok, I agree, there are some exceptions. The…
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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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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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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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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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Deleting (or destroying) a Global List with the TFS API
One of the most used features in TFS Work Items are Global Lists. We use global lists very frequently because it save a lot of time in maintaining list data amongst different Team Projects. What we also do very often is adding and removing items to and from a global…
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Hidden Gems in TFS 2012–Part 8 Related Work Items in a Build Report
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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SDN Talk – Continuous Delivery with 2012
At this year’s SDN event I talked about Continuous Delivery with Team Foundation Server 2012. My slidedeck is available for download at http://wp.me/aYgWl-8h. Thanks for attending!
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Moving source from one TFS to another
A while ago somebody asked me for an easy way to move source from one TFS to another. He struggled with that, because TFS kept asking for the old server. Even when he removed all the *.vssscc files and unbinded the solution with [Change Source Control] the old server popped…
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Reparent of a TFS Source Controlled Branch. Why and How !
When I first looked at the Source Control Explorer in TFS 2012, the thing I noticed first was the introduction of the “Reparent” Menu option in the context menu. I know that this is not new, It was there in Visual Studio 2010 as well only it was hidden away…
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TFS Source Control 2012–Workspaces Part 2
As promised in my previous post, in this post I will tell a little bit more about workspaces. When creating a new workspace (and I explained why you need to do that in my previous post) or editing an existing one, the dialog pops up. In 2012 it shows a…
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TFS Source Control 2012–Workspaces Part 1
Source Control is one of the oldest parts of Team Foundation Server and probably the most used one as well. Every version of Source Control introduced some new functionality. A short historical overview of the key adjustments TFS 2005 brought the first version. SQL Server based version control as a…
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Using WorkItemTrackingCacheRoot in your web.config files
I frequently build custom tooling against the TFS API. Sometimes Windows Applications but most of the time I build Web Applications. When building Web Applications it is no secret that your application runs under the credentials of the application pool. When accessing work items via TFS API from your web…
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Lessons learned in upgrading my TFS 2010 Build templates to TFS 2012
Awaiting the Visual Studio 2012 Launch I am preparing our builds to work on TFS 2012. In my previous post I described that I updated the references and imported some namespaces and then everything worked! Because there were some issues with our current builds, I decided to restructure our build…
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Upgrading your Custom Build Template to TFS 2012
In the past years I have been quite busy with customizing the build for both my own and also custom organizations. Today I was experimenting with the build definitions on my TFS 2012 Release Candidate installation. I attached a TFS 2010 Team Project Collection to my TFS 2012 Server as…
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Want to implement an ALM process? Focus on the output!
Want to implement an ALM process? Focus on the output! In my previous article “Implement TFS or ALM? Same or different?” , I talked about the differences between an ALM implementation and a TFS Implementation. Today I like to talk about the change process that is involved when an ALM…
The Road to ALM 