ALM Rocks!

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released a set of videos, Scaling Agile Across the Enterprise, where the Developer Division talks about how they moved from a more waterfall process to a more agile process. I found the videos interesting and enlightening for a variety of reasons. Microsoft used to  [ Read More ]

If you work heavily with Visual Studio 2013, and are a keyboard junky, then I have a great resource for you.  Check out the complete list of Visual Studio 2013 Keyboard Shortcuts.

I’m thrilled to have been selected to deliver a pre-conference session at TechEd 2014 in Houston.  My good friend Brian Randell and I will be talking about “From Code To Release: DevOps for Developers”. Click the link above to read the abstract. I’ve been lucky enough to speak at TechEd  [ Read More ]

What does a well-maintained Team Foundation Server Look Like? Running a high scale TFS Server VS 2012.4 and TFS 2012.4 RC 4 is available Top 5 reasons to use Team Foundation Service (by Brian Keller) Visual Studio 2013 shortcuts in Windows 8.1 Monitoring Web Applications – Continuous IntelliTrace DevOps –  [ Read More ]

Readers who remember Team System Rocks will remember I used to have a lot of videos up around the 2005 and 2008 releases.  In an effort to get back to my roots, I’m going to start releasing videos again, focused on VS/TFS 2013.  Normally I strive for 3-5 minute short  [ Read More ]

It thrills me to welcome Northwest Cadence as a sponsor to ALM Rocks!. Northwest Cadence was the brain child of one of my good friends, Steven Borg.  They are a Microsoft Gold ALM Partner focusing exclusively on Software Development Process and Application Lifecycle Management, and have been working with the  [ Read More ]

(This post is kinda rambly) Wow! I’m lucky enough to have been re-awarded the Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management MVP award for the 9th straight year.  This is never something that I expect to happen.  Instead, I just continue to try and give back to the ALM community more  [ Read More ]

Creating a new team project has not changed that much.  From within Team Explorer, select Home | Projects and My Teams | New Team Project… Enter the team project name and description. Select the process template to use.  You have three choices out of the box: Scrum, MSF Agile, and  [ Read More ]

With Visual Studio 2013 Preview and TFS 2013 Preview installed, the next step is to connect the two.  In Team Explorer, you can click the Home menu option, and select Projects | Connect to Team Projects, or you can click the Plug icon on the toolbar. This switches Team Explorer  [ Read More ]

Having installed SQL Server 2012 and Sharepoint, I’m now ready to install TFS itself.  And let me tell you, compared to the early days of installing TFS 2005, the installation process is really nice! Select the installation location, and accept the licensing terms. It starts copying some files down. Installs  [ Read More ]