Team Foundation Server – How Does Microsoft Use It?
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If you’re looking at implementing Team Foundation Server, looking for ways to improve your deployment, or just want to know how one of the world’s largest software companies manages their day-to-day development, check out this “series” of blog posts.
These are good posts from a management/process level perspective:
- Applying Value Up at Microsoft (Sam Guckenheimer)
- Managing work for Team System (Jeff Beehler)
- Internal TFS Usage: Tracking Customer Value (Siddharth Bathia)
- Dependency Management (Siddharth Bathia)
Gregg Boer provides an excellent 9-part series on how the Microsoft Developer Division (DevDiv) uses TFS:
- How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 1 (Our Process)
- How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 2 (Feature Crews)
- How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 3 (Implementing the Process)
- How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 4
- How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 5 (Tracking Progress)
- How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 6 (Tracking multiple projects)
- How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 6 (Addendum)
- How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS-Chapter 7 (Tracking Risk)
- How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS-Chapter 8 (Tracking Quality Gates)
- How Microsoft/Dev Div uses TFS - Chapter 9 (Transparency in Reporting)
Brian Harry also provides some posts that talk about how manage your Team Server installation and get some interesting usage statistics: