[TFSService] Starting to work with Team Foundation Server Service Preview

September 15, 2011 00:46 by Luis Fraile
As sure many of you have already seen, in Build Windows, it has been taught the new Foundation Service Team Preview, aKa TFS in Azure. For that you have been lucky enough to have an invitation, we will make a brief summary of where to start. The first thing to remember is that although with some differences, amounts to a Team Foundation Server as we are used to seeing so far in its 2010 versi... [More]

What do I mean with agile "multidisciplinary team"?

September 6, 2011 15:06 by Luis Fraile
We return with items that I see, live and experience with agile methodologies. And now it's up to the multidisciplinary teams, something that much has been written, and with many different visions. If we follow the general concept, and in which many think, a multidisciplinary team is a team of generalists, which everyone knows to do any task needed to complete the sprint. This has a number of ben... [More]

Documenting our Test Plans with Microsoft Test Manager

July 18, 2011 15:00 by Luis Fraile
If you already know Microsoft Test Manager, you will know that it is a great tool to manage our plans for functional testing, however, to check the information concerning the plans for testing of a project in Team Foundation Server, we need the tool itself, connectivity to the TFS server, and go checking each of the Test Suites. This is all very well for the day to day, but there are times in whic... [More]

Give your feedback for next version of Visual Studio ALM

July 14, 2011 15:38 by Luis Fraile
As in any agile process, the Visual Studio ALM team, prioritize the features and improvements for next versions of the products from the users, as you all know, feedback is an important part of building new versions. And how can you give your feedback? well there is a UserVoice site they have set up, so you can give your feedback for the next version of: - Visual Studio Ultimate - Visual Studio... [More]

Creating Work Items “tickets” (i.e.: for Call Centers) without needing Client Access License for TFS

April 13, 2011 19:41 by Luis Fraile
Hi all, recently I came over a consult of a friend, on a situation he wanted to solve in his company. Basically was that they had a call center, external to them, those who wanted to give access to the Team foundation Server, but only to register and keep track of the Work Items created by the users of the call center (each user their own nothing else). Posed me questions about, whether to publis... [More]

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