Ryan Cromwell » TFS http://blog.cromwellhaus.com Improving my craft... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:06:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Send me your TFS vNext Feedback for the MVP Summit http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/2011/02/send-me-your-tfs-vnext-feedback-for-the-mvp-summit/ http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/2011/02/send-me-your-tfs-vnext-feedback-for-the-mvp-summit/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:16:39 +0000 cromwellryan http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/?p=882 I’m headed to the MVP Summit at the end of this month and I want to take feedback to the team. 

The summit is a great opportunity for me to give feedback, but I’m certainly not the only one with ‘ideas’ (just check Twitter).  So I want to give everyone a voice and I’ll do what I can to get it to the teams.

 

So go for it.  Submit and vote up feedback on this UserVoice forum http://tfsmvpsummit.uservoice.com

 

Keep it clean people!

]]> http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/2011/02/send-me-your-tfs-vnext-feedback-for-the-mvp-summit/feed/ 4 Real World Webcast Series for TFS 2010 http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/2011/02/real-world-webcast-series-for-tfs-2010/ http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/2011/02/real-world-webcast-series-for-tfs-2010/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:09:03 +0000 cromwellryan http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/2011/02/real-world-webcast-series-for-tfs-2010/ I and a few coworkers are running a twice monthly web series starting February 10th.  This series will touch on the opportunities we’ve been involved in to ease real world situations.

If you are working with Team Foundation Server 2010 and are interested in making your life a little easier I invite you to come listen to what I and others have to say.  We’ll do everything we can to keep the schedule tight to 1 hour, but we are always available offline.

Automating Team Foundation Server with PowerShell Feb 10th, 12pm EST

System administration can be slow and inconsistent when performed manually, or quick and easy when automated. Learn to use PowerShell with TFS to script away that wasted time.

 

Continuous Deployment with Team Build and MSDeploy Feb 24th, 12pm EST

Caffeine, pizza, and anxiety are regular tools for a production deployment. Watch and learn how Team Foundation Build 2010 and MSDeploy can turn the last hurdle of software development into a moment of Zen.

 

Planning and Executing Manual Tests with Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 Mar 10th, 12pm EST

Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 makes a real impact on software quality. It’s an integrated testing solution that delivers a complete plan-test-track workflow. It allows the user to quickly identify quality-related bugs and easily report them with rich, actionable information. In this session, we’ll review test planning and manual testing with Visual Studio Test Professional 2010.

]]> http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/2011/02/real-world-webcast-series-for-tfs-2010/feed/ 2 Event: Team Foundation Server 2010 Overview with SCRUM http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/2010/09/event-team-foundation-server-2010-overview-with-scrum/ http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/2010/09/event-team-foundation-server-2010-overview-with-scrum/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:35:19 +0000 cromwellryan http://blog.cromwellhaus.com/index.php/2010/09/event-team-foundation-server-2010-overview-with-scrum/ 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!

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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

 

If there are questions or you have topics you feel strongly about covering hit me up on Twitter @cromwellryan.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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