I want to announce that I have posted an alpha version of the Kanban Process Template for TFS on codeplex.  The template as currently has a set of Areas and Iterations to help get started with Kanban.  This Process template is based off the MSF Agile template.  There is now a score field, that has points based off the fibonacci ...

Quick heads up on a great new tool for teams on the patterns and practices msdn site.  The Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit Feb 2008 release is now out.  This tool looks like that it might be a great addition to aid enterprise development groups in emphasizing coding standards.  Call me crazy, ...

On MSDN, there are a series of articles to help explain how to use VSTS and TFS within a large organization.  Called Global Bank: A Scenario for Visual Studio Team System 2008.  This article has an excellent introduction to the possibilities of how VSTS and TFS can assist with your software development life cycle.  There is a lot ...

Since I use virtual images of TFS for some of the things I'm doing, thought I'd let you know that these virtual machines are available now on MSDN. The nice about these images is the preinstallation of Visual Studio Team System, and Team Foundation Server.  I'd also wish for preinstall of at least the BI studio stuff for ...

I noticed this on the TFS Version Control Site, and thought this might be interesting for those using Team Foundation Server.  For our group sometimes there are some issues with the Resolution of conflicts when checking in.  The proposed interface looks good to me.  Love to hear other feedback!

I took a vacation down to my favortie city, Orlando!  Actually Lake Buena Vista FL, home of Walt Disney World!  So of course the week of Thanksgiving, I wasn't Kanbanning,  but visiting the parks at WDW.  I'm always impressed with how the Disney company can handle the amount of crowds that they do.  If ...

As I last posted we are going ahead with our Kanban for Change tickets.  The visit with David Anderson (who wrote Agile Management for Software Engineering...) and Corey Ladas (His Blog is Lean Software Engineering)  really helped focus what we'd like to do at my place of work.  While have similarities, we do have some ...

So I desperately needed to rollback the deletion of six source code files, which, by the way, were asp.net custom control classes. See previous post. The simple solution, right click on the files and select Rollback, Revert, or some other command. Okay, so maybe the command is nested somewhere below that point in the command hierarchy. Or NOT! ...

I can't believe it. How stupid is Microsoft? I swear. They ship a supposed rock-solid server-based source control system and don't provide a rollback feature? I didn't discover this until today when I inadvertantly deleted some source files. So I'm rooting around for an hour trying to figure out how to restore the files from ...

We had a problem recently where one of out developers (a summer intern) left with some files checked out of the Team System Source Control system. Turns out there is no way through Visual Studio 2005 to un-checkout a file. However, there is a command line tool tf you can use to accomplish this and a number of other things. I found a couple of ...