Tweet I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...

TFS 2010 - TF30177 – Team Project Creation Failed Today I tired to create new Team Project on TFS 2010 (Upgraded from 2008) and I got the following error: The Project Creation Wizard encountered a problem while uploading documents to the following server running Sharepoint Products: server..,. The reason for the failure cannot be determined at this time. Because the operation failed, the wizard was not able to finish creating the team project. I’ve checked for permissions and everything is Fine,...

The way to set the field size is very simple, all you have to do is set the MinimumSize attribute of the field to the desired Width and Height. MinimumSize=(Width,Height) For Example: MinimumSize=(200,150) In case you work with the Process Editor you will need to use the attributes field to add that attribute. If the size that was chosen does not fit the screen a scroll bar will be shown. Have Fun

VSTS Beta 2 - Web Access Not Working With SERVERDEFAULT Tag Strange problem with TFS 2010 Beta 2, it seems like SERVERDEFAULT tag is not working from Web Access 2010. In Visual Studio when I change the Status to - Active, Resolved, Closed etc.. there is an action inside the transition that takes the Clock and CurrentUser (Comes with default template). (see below) When performing the same action from Web I get a message that the Field (By, Date) cannot be empty . This works fine in 2008 Web Access...

Scrum Masters Workbench – Create Project Structure in 5 Sec Scrum 3.0 is very cool and easy to use in Team System 2010 Beta 2 - Scrum for Team System 2010 Beta 2 – Getting Started , but the template is not enough, Scrum for Team System Beta 2 comes with a free tool called “Scrum Masters Workbench”, this tool will help us to build the project structure much more easier. Full Guide       Full Guide Enjoy

Scrum for Team System 2010 Beta 2 – Getting Started In my previous post I talked about the changes in Scrum 3.0 Scrum For Team System Version 3.0 - Beta 2 Released . So how to get started with Scrum 3.0? as you know Team System comes with 2 default templates – Agile, CMMI. To add the new Scrum template Download Scrum For Team System 3.0 Beta 2: http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com/dl/SfTSv3.Beta2.x86.zip http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com/dl/SfTSv3.Beta2.x64.zip There are separate installers for 32bit...

Scrum For Team System Version 3.0 - Beta 2 Released Team System 2010 comes with many new improvements, one of the biggest improvements is Hierarchical Work items . In Team System 2008 we had only one relation between work items – Network topologies: Any two items can be connected and the link has the same name at both ends. In Team System 2010 we got more than just one topology of connection (my next post will be about all new topologies in 2010), so when using Team System 2010 we can use those new...

Customizing TFS 2010 Process Template – Test & Lab Manager With Visual Studio Team System and the integrated process templates, teams can deliver predictable results, continuously improve and adapt, and effectively collaborate and communicate with team members and stakeholders. One process does not fit all software projects or teams. Visual Studio Team System includes Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement. In addition, partner...

The first time I’ve heard about MSF (Microsoft Solution Framework) is was a huge pile of documents and templates, covering the entire scope of the software manufacturing world, and than some more.. After spending several days reading and practicing, the feeling I’ve got was that this is actually the best source of development methodologies knowledge I came across but that the abundance of knowledge and it’s unstructured nature make it very difficult to implement. Our second meeting was in 2005 in...

Where do you usually store all the new features suggestions and enhancements people are throwing at you? If you are like most of us, some are buried in your mailbox, some are even less fortunate and are scribbled on a post-it or in an old notebook. The result is that valuable ideas are lost. The solution I came up with is so simple it is almost embarrassing to blog about it, but since most of the TFS implementations I see lack that option I would like to share it anyway. What I do is add a new node...