DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
February 25, 2011Feb 25, 201102/25/11Alan Wills has created several samples that let you extend UML diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate in the following ways:
Link model elements to diagrams, files, and other items
Color classes based on their stereotype
Align shapes on a diagram
Draw bidirectional associations and omit empty Operations sections on class diagrams automatically
February 21, 2011Feb 21, 201102/21/11Once we identified most of the items (stories) in our backlog, we started to prioritize them. In our first pass, we adapted a technique that Mike Cohn teaches called Theme Scoring . I say adapted because we didn’t identify a small number of themes and rank them using this technique.
February 16, 2011Feb 16, 201102/16/11You can create a dependency (DGML) graph to see links between work items by using the Work Item Visualizer available on MSDN Code Gallery for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. This tool can help you:
Analyze the hierarchy of your work items more easily.
Perform basic risk/impact analysis when creating or editing work items.
February 15, 2011Feb 15, 201102/15/11In the past, we managed our work by defining the topics that we need to write, and then estimating and prioritizing the work to write those topics. Before VS2010, that worked really well. We documented the features that the product team created.
February 15, 2011Feb 15, 201102/15/11Each of these videos are less than 2 minutes long and provide very quick overviews of how you can use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to perform the following tasks:
Explore large codebases in Architecture Explorer
Visualize code relationships on dependency diagrams
Build static and dynamic views of your system on component diagrams and sequence diagrams and then link model elements to work items
February 7, 2011Feb 7, 201102/7/11I have posted a couple of series on how we plan content work for Team Foundation, one in 2007
Planning the Sprint
Tracking Work Items
Reporting Status
and the other in 2009.
How we Track Content Work
Managing Technical Reviews in TFS and SharePoint
Reporting Progress
Well,
February 3, 2011Feb 3, 201102/3/11Even though it’s February. But it is a new year, and this one is going to be different. For example, yesterday:
City
Hi / Lo F
Hi / Lo C
Seattle, WA
49 / 39
9.4 / 3.9
Dallas, TX
26 / 22
-3.3 / -5.5
Pensacola,
