Archive for the ‘TFS’ category

Event: Team Foundation Server 2010 Overview with SCRUM

September 2nd, 2010

Our previous Columbus TFS Event had such a wonderful turnout and response that we’ve decided to go on the road to Kentucky in a few weeks.  I’m happy to have Dave Dotterer of Kizan as my partner in crime.  Dave is a great TFS resource and it’ll be awesome to have his insight for the audience.  The agenda is similar, but we found in Columbus that we ran out of time.  To solve this we will be starting sharp at 8:15am on September 23rd and 24th.

A big thanks to Danilo Casino of Microsoft for putting this together and inviting both Dave and I.  Also a big thanks to the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts (desperately in need of a nickname) for lending their facilities.  They continue to be a big supporter of the development community in that area.  Other states’ organizations would be wise to follow their lead.

Registration can be found here.

Directions can be found here.

The agenda is much the same, though we will make a greater effort to include Lab Management on the second day:

Day 1 – September 23, 2010

Welcome time: 8:15 AM

Introductions/Kick Off: 8:30

  • Mike Gresley, Microsoft

VS2010 Business Value Overview

  • Statistics
  • People/Process/Tools

Why Process

  • Process discussion, Scrumdamentals
  • Review Visual Studio Scrum Template

Lunch (Many restaurants north of I-64)

Team Explorer overview

  • Customizing VS2010
  • Connecting to TFS
  • Work Items Overview
  • Documents Overview
  • Reports Overview
  • Build Overview
  • SharePoint
  • Web Access

Project Management

  • Requirement Gathering
  • Planning

Day 2 – September 24, 2010

Team Build

  • Setting CI
  • Branch/Merge
  • Deployment

Architecture Tools

  • Overview
  • Hotfix

Development

  • TDD
  • Code Tools/Analysis/IntelliTrace …
  • Layer Diagrams

Database Tools

  • Schema Management
  • Data Management
  • Testing
  • Deployment

Lunch

Test Manager

  • Setup
  • Running
  • Report

Reports

  • Excel Reports
  • Dashboard
  • SSRS

Team Lab Management (Time Permitting)

Retrospective (30 minutes)

 

Look forward to seeing everyone there!

Event: TFS 2010 Overview, Scrum integration: June 22-23

May 19th, 2010

[Updated: An offline, PDF agenda is available here]

Around a month from now Alexei Govorine of Quick Solutions and I will be leading a free, two day event diving into Team Foundation Server 2010 and its uses within a Scrum development organization.  This is my first year being a part of this event, but Alexei has a number of years under his belt now.  The agenda is quite aggressive, which will certainly be to the benefit of the audience.  I highly encourage those evaluating Team Foundation Server as well as those looking to get the most out of an existing Team Foundation Server deployment to come be part of this event.  An agenda is available below (offline PDF version here) and you can register here.

Agenda

Day 1 · June 22nd Day 2 · June 23rd
Keynote Development Practices
Business Value Overview Database Tools
Why Process Team Build
   
Lunch  
   
Team Explorer Test Manager
Project Management Reports
Architecture Tools Retrospective

 

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Source Control Smackdown 2009

December 7th, 2009

With all the hubbub around Git, TFS 2010, and others over the last year or so, the Dayton .Net Developers Group is hosting a panel event this Wednesday, December 9th, titled Source Control Smackdown 2009.  I have been lucky enough to be selected to represent TFS in a clash against SVN (Justin Kohnen) and Git (Leon Gersing).  Please come down and share your experiences, learn some facts and enjoy the banter that will undoubtedly ensue.

Find directions, contact information, panel member bios and other details on the Dayton .Net Developers Group site.

Dog Food II: Implementing Scrum with TFS

November 13th, 2009

I want to thank all of those who took time out of their day to hang out at the Dog Food II conference in Columbus.  Everything was a great success.  A special thanks to Danilo Casino, Brian Prince, Jeff Blankenburg and everyone else who helped put the event together. 

For those of you who attended my session on Implementing Scrum with Team Foundation Server, you can find my slides here.  I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and I’m already looking forward to getting started next year.

Dog Food II Registration Open

October 29th, 2009

Registration has opened for the 2nd Annual Dog Food conference in Columbus, OH.  SDS is excited to be a sponsor and presenter this year and I hope you have a chance to come by and see some of the topics everyone has planned.  I plan to be there as an observer both days and a speaker the second.  You really need to be someone to get the final session on the final day (a Friday non-the-less), but it’s a topic I’m passionate about: Scrum with Team Foundation Server.

For an agenda and registration information, the venerable Jeff Blankenburg has made available the official Dog Food Conference site.

TFS Screencasts – Part 2 – Scrum For Team System Features

September 4th, 2008

One of the things we are using here at SDS for our TFS installation and projects is the Scrum for Team System which provides a new Sharepoint Portal layout, Reporting Services reports and graphs, Work Item Templates, and an awesome Process Guidance reference

In this screencast, I try to point out some of these features and how to get to them.  It’s short (just over 2 minutes) and I’ll dive into each as we continue our storyline.

Shoutout to Camtasia which is sooo simple to use.

TFS Screencasts – Part 1 – Create a Team Project

August 27th, 2008

One of the projects I’m working on for my company, Strategic Data Systems, is our internal Team Foundation Server 2008 solution.  I’m working with some of the guys who head up our Agile Development Center to make sure things fit well with what they are doing.  It’s been difficult to find overlapping free time, so I have started putting together screencasts to highlight our procedures and what I consider best-practices.  We’ve published written documentation internally, but these are so much more palatable.

These are geared toward our organization in content, but should be generally relevant to anyone interested in TFS.  This particular screencast walks through creating a Team Project and specifying permissions for implementing Scrum roles.

 Direct Link

p.s This is hosted, for free (as in beer), by Silverlight Streaming Services.  It took all of 20 seconds to sign up and 5 minutes to upload the video made with Camtasia.