I know, the title is crap but I just don’t know how to call it properly. Let me just give me the real life example. I have this pretty straightforward Product Backlog But I also have this feature hierarchy. Within the features I prioritize my Backlog items. The features also are ranked from most important to less […]
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Order your VSTS Product Backlog based on the order within your Feature Backlog
December 30, 2016 
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Build fails when associating work items
March 16, 2015 Comments Off on Build fails when associating work items
Recently I ran into a strange problem. I modified a work item type definition and added a field. So far, so good. The field could be edited and everyone was happy. But after that, my build failed. As you may or may not know you can choose to associate work items during a check-in (read […]
Continue reading Making a Work Item Read Only when it has a certain state
February 12, 2015 Comments Off on Making a Work Item Read Only when it has a certain state
I am busy at a customer with implementing some security rules on work items. As you might or moght not know the work item security is quite limited. My scenario is as follows: Only users in group XYZ kan make a state transition from [Draft] to [Approved] When the item is in the state [Approved] […]
Continue reading Bulk destroy Work Items from Team Foundation Server
January 14, 2015 3 Comments
WARNING: Destroy work items is a irreversible action so use with caution and at your own risk! Lately I am quire busy with all kinds of migration work to Team Foundation Server. This means a lot of testing, modifying and re-testing. Because the target Team Project has quite some modifications and custom work it is […]
Continue reading Printing work items with Team Foundation Server
June 30, 2014 7 Comments
With the introduction of TFS 2012 Web Access we lost the possibility to print work items from the web. The experience wasn’t great in the first place but now it disappeared. Also in Visual Studio we do not have great printing possibilities. For some teams this is a big issue. They like TFS but also […]
Continue reading Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 11 Sharing work the easy way
January 13, 2014 Comments Off on Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 11 Sharing work the easy way
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. Some features are available as […]
Continue reading Use Advanced search when TFS does not find text in work items
October 10, 2013 3 Comments
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 something like this: Originally Created […]
Continue reading TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 4) – Sprint
July 11, 2013 1 Comment
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 for grooming your Product Backlog […]
Continue reading TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 3) – Sprint Planning
May 6, 2013 14 Comments
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 for grooming your Product Backlog […]
Continue reading TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 2) – Product Backlog Grooming
April 7, 2013 7 Comments
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 for grooming your Product Backlog […]
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- Knowledge Driven Culture
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- Aligned Autonomy in Practice
- Building an Engineering Culture
- Embrace chaos to achieve stability
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Using Personal Access Tokens to access Visual Studio Online
- Changing the product backlog in TFS 2012
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Use Visual Studio as your Diff and Merging Tool for local files
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 3 – How to set up my reporting environment and structure
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
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