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Quality enablement with Visual Studio 2012

By MrHinsh On 2013-05-15 · Add Comment · In Develop, Improve, Practices, Tools
Team Foundation Server & Visual Studio provide a solid foundation to start building good engineering practices around.

In the modern application lifecycle one of the key messages is one of quality enablement. Quality will be the key differentiator between you and your competitors over the next few years and the old excuses are just that… old.

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TFS Integration Tools – Issue: unable to find a unique local path

By MrHinsh On 2013-05-13 · Add Comment · In Puzzles, Tools
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When you are doing a Source Control migration using the TFS Integration Platform you receive a “unable to find a unique local path” runtime conflict.

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Configure Test Plans for web access in TFS 2012.2

By MrHinsh On 2013-05-10 · Add Comment · In Configuration, Tools
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Configure Test Plans for web access in TFS 2012.2 is a little tricky and we need to be very specific on how we configure it so that our Team can see the right test Plans.

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TFS2012.2 – Issue: Object not set to instance of object with TF400898, TF53010 & TF30065

By MrHinsh On 2013-05-08 · 2 Comments · In Puzzles
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You may get an exception when working with Areas or Teams in Team Foundation Server 2012.2 that results in an Object not set to instance of object with TF51011, TF400898, TF53010 & TF30065 errors.

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TFS 2012 Issue: Get Workspace already exists connecting with VS 2008 or VS 2010

By MrHinsh On 2013-05-06 · Add Comment · In Puzzles, Tools
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You may get a "workspace already exists" when you have VS 2008 or VS 2010 installed as well as VS 2012 and you try to connect them to TFS 2012.

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Naked ALM: starting with why and getting naked

By MrHinsh On 2013-05-02 · Add Comment · In Improve, Measure
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For a long time now I have been searching for that perfect domain that epitomised the vision, the why, of what I am trying to achieve with my customers and the industry at large. Now I have found it in http://nakedalm.com

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You are doing it wrong if you are not using test first

By MrHinsh On 2013-04-26 · 4 Comments · In Develop, Practices
Building strategies around good agile and engineering practices will help you provide more value to your customers.

Many teams are struggling with delivering modern software because they are not building with Test First principals. Test First gives us the assurance that we have built the correct thing, that what we built is what the customer asked for and that when we change things we don’t break anything inadvertently.

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Release Management with Team Foundation Server 2012

By MrHinsh On 2013-04-24 · 3 Comments · In Develop, Operate, Practices, Process, Tools
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Northwest Cadence has been working hard with customers to improve their release management in Team Foundation Server 2012. While on the surface it looks like TFS 2012 has little in the way of support for release management, you would be wrong. There are many features in Team Foundation Server, many of them added in TFS 2010 that can aid you in creating a release management strategy.

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Upgrading your process template from MSF for Agile 4 to Visual Studio Scrum 2.x

By MrHinsh On 2013-04-22 · 2 Comments · In Configuration, Infrastructure, Tools
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Upgrading your process template from MSF for Agile 4 to Visual Studio Scrum 2.x can be a daunting and scary task. While you do need to be careful it is relatively simple to achieve safely.

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New un-versioned repository in TFS 2012

By MrHinsh On 2013-04-18 · 4 Comments · In Configuration, Infrastructure, Tools
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In the last wave of updates to Team Foundation Service the product team has added a new “staging location” and we now have an un-versioned repository in TFS 2012.

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