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“Team For Word” A TFS Word Client and a User Guide For It
28 December 10 07:30 AM | Eran Ruso | 6 comment(s)

A few days ago I have encountered a very nice tool that is called “Team For Word” Until now I have worked with the “Team Spec” that cost a license compares to this tool that is totally free and with an open source. In the past few days I have worked a lot with the “Team For Word” on clients sites, we have tried to see if this tool can replace the “Team Spec” and the answer is not simple. This tool has some abilities that”Team Spec” doesn’t have like presenting all the work items from a query with...

תגים:TFS 2008, DEV, Team System 2008, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide, Guides, TFS Guide, Documents Management, WIs, Word

How TFS “Remaining Work” And “Completed Work” Fields Are being Updated From MSProject
11 August 10 10:36 PM | Eran Ruso | 1 comment(s)

There is a change in the TFS 2010 Release version working with the MSProject. This change has confused me too when I first so it although I have worked a lot with the MSProject and TFS and have trained many users using it. What is the symptom? When creating tasks in MSProject and assigning duration for these tasks the Remaining Work and Completed Work fields in TFS Work Items stay “0” instead of getting the values of the duration. What is the reason for that and how it really works? The mapped fields...

תגים:DEV, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Work Items, ITPRO, MSProject

Microsoft® Visual Studio® Scrum 1.0 Template Was Released
19 July 10 09:34 PM | Eran Ruso | with no comments

Today it happens! Microsoft is releasing the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 In this template Microsoft is using the SCRUM terminology both with the Work Items and the Reports. We can find there the following Work Items: With the following Workflows: We can also find the following Reports: Release Burndown Velocity Sprint Burndown Note: all images were taken from Brian Harry’s post: “A Scrum Process Template for TFS” In “The Forrester Wave: Agile Development Management Tools, Q2 2010” we can find...

תגים:DEV, TECH, TFS 2010, ALM, Agile Development, Work Items, SCRUM, ITPRO

Red X Problem On Work Items In TFS 2010 RTM
14 June 10 11:28 AM | Eran Ruso | 1 comment(s)

There is a Bug in TFS 2010 that shows a Red X On the Work Items tab in Team Explorer. The Work Items become unavailable and when trying to get thru the Web Access you will get an error. Microsoft will probably release a patch to solve it soon but until then… What happened? It seems that the problem is being created from the queries section, when configuring Work Items we change or delete fields. When you load your Team Explorer the project refreshes, the Work Item tab refreshes the queries too and...

תגים:DEV, TECH, tfs Error Troubleshoting, TFS 2010, Work Items, TFS Administration

Work Item Groups In TFS
10 June 10 02:54 PM | Eran Ruso | 2 comment(s)

One very nice feature came with TFS 2010 that almost no one knows is the Work Item Groups . In TFS 2010 you can define group of Work Item Types and filter work items using that group, for example lets take different Work Items for requirements: System Requirements and Detailed Requirements. What I like to do is query all the requirements in the system, all I need to do is filter by the group: Requirements. In order to change the categories you will need to export them to an XML file, change the categories...

תגים:DEV, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, New Features, Work Items, Work Items Guide, TFS Administration, Queries

Delete TFS 2010 Work Items
18 February 10 01:47 PM | Eran Ruso | 4 comment(s)

Many customers ask me about deleting Work Items from the TFS. Here is how to do it for TFS 2010: Step 1: Log-in to the TFS using a TFS administrator user. Step 2: Open a command line and go to: 32bit machine - “X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common 7\IDE” 64bit machine - “X:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common 7\IDE” Step 3: Use the “witadmin.exe destroywi” command in the following way: witadmin.exe destroywi /Collection:http:\\[ServerName]:8080\tfs\[CollectionName...

תגים:Team System, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, TFS Administration, Guides, tfs guides, tfs 2010 guide

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide Is Published
01 February 10 08:00 AM | Eran Ruso | 1 comment(s)

I am glad to announce that the TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide Is finally and available to download. I have worked hard to create this guide and I will be glad to hear what you think of it. It is available to download from the TFS Guides site. I will also like to know what other user guides you need. Have Fun!!!

תגים:OFFTOPIC, DEV, Team System, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, NEWS, VSTS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Queries, Queries Guide, Guides, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio, tfs guides, tfs 2010 guide, TFS Guide

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items Out Of An Existing Work Items
11 January 10 09:00 AM | Eran Ruso | 5 comment(s)

This post is the Fifth post out of Five that builds the TFS 2010 Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Introduction” I have already published regarding the creation of new Work Items: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” , about the Work Item Links: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Work Item Link Types” and about creating and using queries: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries” On this post I...

תגים:DEV, Team System, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, VS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Visual Studio, tfs guides

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries
07 January 10 06:41 AM | Eran Ruso | 8 comment(s)

This post is the Forth post out of Five that builds the TFS 2010 Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Introduction” I have already published posts regarding the creation of new Work Items: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” and about the Work Item Links: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Work Item Link Types” On this post I will talk about Queries. In order to see the Work Items you have entered to the Team System you...

תגים:DEV, Team System, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, VS2010, VSTS2010, New Features, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide, Queries, Queries Guide, Guides, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Work Item Link Types
30 December 09 10:37 AM | Eran Ruso | 15 comment(s)

This post is the Third post out of Five that builds the TFS 2010 Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Introduction” I have already published regarding the creation of new Work Items: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” On this post I will talk about one of the big changes in TFS 2010 is the Link types between Work Items! In any development process you will have many Work Items, Work Items in the development process are related...

תגים:DEV, Team System, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide, Queries, Queries Guide, Guides, Work Item links

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items
30 December 09 10:33 AM | Eran Ruso | 8 comment(s)

This post is the second post out of Five that builds the TFS 2010 Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Introduction” On this post I will show different ways to create new work items from the Team Explorer 2010. In order to show the Team Explorer in Visual Studio click on its icon. There are two main methods to create Work Items, from the Team Explorer --> Work Items menu or from the Team tab. In order to create a new work item from the Team Explorer...

תגים:DEV, Team System, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide, Queries, Queries Guide, Guides

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Introduction
22 December 09 03:37 PM | Eran Ruso | 5 comment(s)

Team System is very powerful when it comes to manage development and QA , in order to manage development and QA you will need to have Requirements, Tasks, Bugs etc. and the links between them. In Team System there is a generic object that covers all that is needed, it is called Work Item . What is a Work Item? A work item is a generic object that has types , for example: Requirement, Task, Bug, etc. The Work Item types that are available "out of the box" in Team system are not the only...

תגים:DEV, Team System, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, VS2010, VSTS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide, Queries, Queries Guide, Guides, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio

Core Fields Of A Work Item (For Advanced Users)
12 November 09 02:54 PM | Eran Ruso | with no comments

This post is the fifth and last post out of Five that builds the Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “Team System Work items Basic User Guide – Introduction” I have already published the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” , the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries” and the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items Out Of An Existing Work Items” We have seen in previous posts how to create a new work item we...

תגים:DEV, Team System 2008, Team System, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guid

Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items Out Of An Existing Work Items
30 September 09 11:15 AM | Eran Ruso | 3 comment(s)

This post is the forth post out of Five that builds the Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “Team System Work items Basic User Guide – Introduction” I have already published the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” and the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries” We have seen in previous posts how to create a new work item and how to create and manage my queries , on this post we will see how to create a new Work Item out of an existing...

תגים:DEV, Team System 2008, Team System, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide

Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries
03 September 09 04:56 PM | Eran Ruso | 6 comment(s)

This post is the third post out of Five that builds the Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “Team System Work items Basic User Guide – Introduction” I have already published the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” On this post I will talk about Queries. In order to see the Work Items you have entered to the Team System you will need to create a "Search", the way you search the Team System is by Queries . Queries contains filters , you can put filters...

תגים:DEV, Team System 2008, Team System, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide, Queries, Queries Guide