New Team System Stuff - 2005-04-05
Visual Studio Team System
- Today, we have a double-header of Team System webcasts:
- 9:00 AM PDT – Drill Down into Visual Studio Team System: Team Architect (Level 200) with Geoff Snowman
- 10:00 AM PDT – How and Why Process Guidance Matters in Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Level 200) with Bindia Hallauer
- Mickey Gousset has a short review of yesterday’s Team System webcast [My Thoughts On The Intro To VSTS Webcast].
- Elaine van Bergen is using Team System [Team System Finally :) & Microsoft Team System in practice] as part of an advanced course of study in Systems Development at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
My Team System Posts
Development
- The second installment of John Stallo’s Channel 9 video on Visual Studio Class Designer is available for viewing [John Stallo - The Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer (2 of 3)]. Mickey Gousset has a short review of that, too [Class Designer Overview...].
Events
- 5/3, 11:00 AM PDT – MSDN Webcast: Service Orientation and Achieving Agility (Level 300)
Project Management
- Scrum, Scrum, Scrum – lots of Scrum stuff going around lately. Jim Glass says that the VS Core team is getting ready to try it [Everyone's Scrumming]. Readers of my blog may know that my team has been using Scrum in an unconventional way – to manage our documentation project for Team Foundation [TF Scrum UE]. David Chesnut, my teammate and guest blogger on the subject shares some wisdom on adopting Scrum [Critical Scrum Success Factors].
- Darrell Norton points to a post by Glen Stampoulitzis that reflects on his experience at a small software development company that was using XP [6 Months in an Agile Software Development Company]. Also from Darrell Norton, Be sure to check-out John Rusk’s AgileKiwi with its collection of articles on agile software development [Articles].
- I missed this one back in February, but Dennis van der Stelt had some nice words to say about MSF for Agile Software Development.
- Watts Humphrey, who founded the Software Process Program and developed the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM) at SEI, was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Bush. [via Grady Booch]
Team Software Development
- Chris Rathjen tells a tale of two cities in his post on shelving in Team System and how you might do shelving in Subversion [Team Foundation vs. Subversion: Shelving].
- Peter Jones is a fan of shelving in Team System, too [Some more VS2005 & .Net 2.0 features].
Testing
- Bruce McLeod has posted the final installment in his series of posts [Seven tenets of software testing] covering his tenets of software testing [Tenet: A test is successful when the software under test fails].
- Roy Osherove has a series of testing-related posts worth taking a look at, too: