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Demonstrating Microsoft's continued commitment to enabling Java developers to fully utilize Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Online (VSO), we have launched a documentation subsite dedicated to Java at java.visualstudio.com. The site covers a large variety of topics relevant for Java development including:  using Git with VSO, buildin...

In VSO, the Kanban board is your control room. Like traditional switchboards and status indicators, the board empowers teams with mission critical information: which work items are in progress, where the bottlenecks are, who the work is assigned to, and so on. There’s a certain calm to knowing all of this... and we get it. As consumers of our ow...

With the release of TFS 2015, we have also updated the process templates. All of these changes were done to: Many of you have requested a list of the improvements that we have made to the process templates, so here we go.Template changes Workflow changes Field changes T...

UPDATED: Oct 2, 2015 Last month we knocked two items off this list.  You can read about these new features here: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2015-sep-18-vso More is coming in the next few sprints, stay tuned... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This post details some of the agile project management improvemen...

Easily provision the required resources in Microsoft Azure using the Azure Resource Manager templates, and deploy Web applications and SQL Server Databases to the Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), and run tests that are automatically distributed across VMs using the Visual Studio Test Agent. Once the application's functionality is verified, deploy the ...

Back in May, we began explaining our roadmap for process customization on Visual Studio Online (VSO).  In this post, I want to share the progress we’ve made and give an update on our overall plans. Customization rollout plan Process customization features will be delivered on the same cadence as the rest of the service, with new functionality ligh...

I’d like to start this blog post with a quick introduction.  I’m Paul Barham and have been working at Microsoft only 7 short weeks but have over 25 years of software development experience ranging from teaching at the university level, to being a lead software developer and architect, to being a manager over 30+ person development teams for st...

We are very excited to provide built-in support for the Scale Agile Framework using our existing Scrum, Agile, and CMMI templates. Some time ago, we published a whitepaper: Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs, which detailed how to use TFS to support SAFe practices. In support of that guidance...

It's been a long time coming, but I'm excited to let you know that process customization for Visual Studio Online (VSO) is right around the corner. In this post I want to take a few minutes to explain our roadmap and what you can expect over the next few months. Private Preview We’ve heard loud and clear that customers desire the abili...

UPDATED: Jun 12, 2015 Well, we've almost made it through everything I originally put into this post.  The Kanban metrics are the one things we're still waiting on.  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UPDATED: Mar 11, 2015 Back with another update as we knocked a few more items off thi...