Thanks for attending my session about Team Build 2008 at the Team System Conference in Munich/Germany this week. As announced in my session, you can download the slides here. Enjoy it! :-)

-Klaus

eScrum is a Web-based, end-to-end project management tool for Scrum built on the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server platform. It provides multiple ways to interact with your Scrum project: eScrum Web-based UI, Team Explorer, and Excel or Project, via Team Foundation Office Integration. In addition, it provides a single place for all Scrum artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, task management, retrospective, and reports with built-in context sensitive help.

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-Klaus

Microsoft has posted a very interesting article about the TFS Cube. If you're using TFS for project management, this is a must read! :-)

-Klaus

Today a customer asked me how they can use hierarchical work items inside TFS. The answers lies in the Work Item Creator, released at Codeplex.

-Klaus

The pattern & practices team has released the Beta 1 version of the Team Development Guide at Codeplex. It's a PDF document with 360 pages - all around Team Foundation Server. Here's the TOC:

• Introduction
• Ch 01 - Introducing the Team Environment
• Ch 02 - Team Foundation Server Architecture
• Ch 03 - Structuring Projects and Solutions
• Ch 04 - Structuring Projects and Solutions in Team Foundation Server
• Ch 05 - Defining Your Branching and Merging Strategy
• Ch 06 - Managing Source Control Dependencies in Visual Studio Team System
• Ch 07 - Team Build Explained
• Ch 08 - Setting Up Continuous Integration with Team Build
• Ch 09 - Setting Up Scheduled Builds with Team Build
• Ch 10 - Large Project Considerations
• Ch 11 - Project Management Explained
• Ch 12 - Work Items Explained
• Ch 13 – MSF Agile Projects
• Ch 14 - Process Templates Explained
• Ch 15 - Reporting Explained
• Ch 16 - Team Foundation Server Deployment
• Ch 17 - Providing Internet Access to Team Foundation Server

-Klaus

Mike has posted a step by step documentation how you can upgrade Team Foundation Server to Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 and Sharepoint Server 2007.

-Klaus

After the succesful installation of TeamPlain on Windows Vista (please keep UAC in mind :-)), you can access directly from the TeamPlain website each running Team Foundation Server inside your network. After you've connected to an instance of TFS, you're redirected to the start page of TeamPlain:

From the start page you've access to the WorkItems, the Reports, the Sharepoint Document Libraries and also the source code repository. Enclosed you'll find a few screenshots I've taken inside TeamPlain.

For more information please refer to Harry's posting.

-Klaus

Microsoft has released a great whitepaper explaining how you can do branching and merging with the Team Foundation Server.

-Klaus

The pattern and practises team at Microsoft hast just released new prescriptive guidance for Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

-Klaus

Buck Hodges announced that Microsoft has acquired TeamPlain. TeamPlain is a web client frontend for Visual Studio 2005 Team System:

Today we are announcing that Microsoft has acquired DevBiz Business Solutions, the makers of the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team System.  TeamPlain is a web front end for VSTS that enables users to access the majority of TFS functionality from within a Web browser.  The focus of TeamPlain is on work item tracking but it also includes some valuable version control capabilities (like viewing history/change sets, diffing files, browsing the source base, etc.), some SharePoint integration, Reporting services integration, and some upcoming build support.  TeamPlain gives VSTS a new avenue to reach a broader array of people within the development team who don’t use Visual Studio today and don’t want to install Visual Studio clients on their machines.  It also improves reach by enabling some access from non-Windows clients.

You can download TeamPlain without any additional charge and licensing costs from here.

-Klaus

Microsoft has released some detailed information about the roadmap of Visual Studio 2005 Team System. This include information about the upcoming Orcas release and also about the Rosario release, that follows the Orcas release.

-Klaus

As Naysawn has announced the unit testing functionality is also available in Visual Studio Orcas Professional Edition. This is a big improvement, because currently you need Team System to use the unit testing functionality.

-Klaus