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Branching and Merging with Scrum and Visual Studio ALM

I frequently recommend the ALM Ranger’s Branching and Merging Guidance to clients as a base of understanding when evolving a strategy that best meets the client’s source control needs. When working with agile methodologies like Scrum, the right strategy can help you raise the bar on quality...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Mon, Jul 23 2012
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Continuous Integration, Agile, Scrum, Source Control, Branching & Merging
Using MSDeploy to Automate Web Deployment for Test and Production with Visual Studio ALM 2010 Team Build

Leverage MSDeploy.exe to Automatically Deploy Builds Where We Need Them In an earlier posting Building a Custom Build Workflow with Deployment I showed how you can extend Team Build workflow to do a simple deployment to a user acceptance test (UAT) location. Here I'll discuss improving that example...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Thu, Feb 17 2011
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server, Team Buld, MSDeploy
San Luis Obispo/Central Coast Code Camp

I’m late getting this posted but Saturday May 22 was the Central Coast Code Camp held at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. By my own guess there were about 100 plus in attendance. I did three presentations: Scrum Fundamentals, Herding Pigs – Managing Self-Organizing Teams, and Exploring Team Build...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Mon, Jun 14 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Community, Code Camp, Visual Studio 2010, Scrum
Professional Scrum Developer Training – June 21-25

I will be presenting Accentient’s Professional Scrum Developer course June 21-25 at the Microsoft Technology Center, Irvine. CA. In cooperation with Microsoft, Ken Schwaber , and Scrum.org , and other industry subject matter experts, Accentient has created the first-of-its-kind, Scrum Developer...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Mon, Apr 5 2010
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Accentient, Agile, Scrum, Ken Schwaber, Scrum Developer
The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010

The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010 This event would be of interest to all that want to learn more about Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management. I will be presenting at the San Diego and Los Angeles events and John Miller who helps run SoCal Team System...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Wed, Feb 24 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server, The Ultimate Event
Visual Studio 2010 ALM Pricing

I'm frequently asked pricing questions for Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management products. As always, my response is check with your Microsoft sales representative for your specific case. Here's the suggested retail pricing. If you are renewing your MSDN Subscription, timing may be...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Feb 6 2010
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server
Visual Studio 2010 Release Pushed Back

Microsoft wants to be sure they get it right with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET4. Feedback they've received from Beta 2 is being listened to and acted upon. In general, the new features are great but work is needed on performance. To that end, the release is being pushed back a few weeks and we'll...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Dec 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Brian Harry, Visual Studio 2010, Scott Guthrie
Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Team Development for All

This was a busy week for new stuff Microsoft. Wednesday Oct 21 was the official release day for Windows 7. It also was the first day of public availability for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 from MDSN downloads. You can download Beta 2 here http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Oct 24 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS 2010, Windows 7
A Lap Around VSTS 2010 at SoCal Team System

The July 28 th meeting of SoCal Team System featured my presentation of “A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2010.” Here is the download for my presentation . We had a great turnout with lots of discussion. We were able to cover TFS administration, team collections, the Architecture Explorer...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, Aug 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS 2010, SoCal Team System
Team System presentations from Rock & Roll Code Camp

Here are the links for the slide decks from my Team System presentations at the San Diego code camp on June 27: · A Lap Around VSTS 2010 · Maximizing Your Investment with VSTS 2008 The “Lap Around VSTS 2010” turned out to be a bit more challenged than I bargained for. I was...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, Jun 28 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS 2010, Codecamp
User Groups and Team System

Since the beginning of the year, I have done several user group presentations on Visual Studio Team System 2010. February 12 at SouthBay .NET and February 19 at SoCal .NET Architecture were warm-ups for the MSDN Developers Conference in San Francisco on February 23. March 10 was Orange County .NET and...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Tue, Mar 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, Architecture, ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, Visual Studio 2010, VSTS Big Event, Test
Lab Management with VSTS

Development, Test and Build/Release need clean environments for deployment. For complex multi-tier applications this is not a trivial task, especially when implementing agile processes like continuous integration. Virtual Machines allow you to configure your target environments but it still takes time...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Fri, Feb 6 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, S. Somasegar, Visual Studio 2010, Lab Management, Hyper-V, VMware
MSDN Developer Conference with VS Live in San Francisco

The MSDN Developer Conference is a recap of the best from PDC2008 , and it's happening now all across the US. Microsoft has saved the best one for last in San Francisco, where they've joined forces with VSLIve! MDC kicks off the show on February 23rd. I'll be presenting "A Lap Around...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Wed, Jan 28 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, Visual Studio 2010, MSDN Developer Conference, VS Live
Keeping the Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC from PDC 2008 running

The Virtual PC image for Visual Studio 2010 CTP provided at PDC 2008 and downloadable from here has an expiration of 1/1/2009. However, you can keep using it if you follow the guidance provided by Brian Keller . Here's a summary. There are several moving expiration parts you'll have to contend...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Thu, Jan 22 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, PDC, Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio Team System Presentations coming in February

On February 4th I'll be doing a GeekSpeak web cast on "What you didn't know about VSTS 2008" On February 19th I'll be in San Francisco for the MSDN Developer Conference presenting "A Lap Around VSTS 2010"

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Wed, Nov 19 2008
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, geekSpeak, Channel 9, Visual Studio 2010, MSDN Developer Conference

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