Updated: Visual Studio 2012 RC ALM Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts

Posted on August 16, 2012

Visual Studio 2012 / TFS 2012 Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs have been updated! If you attend any of Microsoft Partners Webcast/Demos you may notice the environment used is pre-loaded with Contoso data that’s included on the VM below. A helpful note is to read the “Working with” document included to find out about any specific changes needed and updates. Brian Keller Microsoft Sr. Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management…

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Certified ScrumMaster

Posted on June 16, 2012

I completed the Certified Scrum Master Course offered by 3back a Scrum Alliance Registered Education Provider and taught by Dan Rawsthorne  a Certified Scrum Trainer. Working in an environment where developers are consistently delivering quality code on time has an unmeasurable amount of benefits. Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012 will have a set of features that go hand and hand with the Scrum Approach to development, and becoming a Certified Scrum Master I felt could only complement the agile direction…

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Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts

Posted on April 10, 2012

The Virtual Machine and hands on Labs were released in September of last year, and the information below was posted on the site of Brian Keller. Brian Keller Microsoft Sr. Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management                Feb 29, 2012 Update: This post and accompanying downloads have been updated based on the Visual Studio 11 Beta which was released today. I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the Visual Studio 11…

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TFS TF237055: You cannot destroy a work item type that is being used.

Posted on March 21, 2012

Removing Existing Work Item Types To remove an existing Work Item Type (WIT) you must modify the Category template to exclude the WIT in order to avoid receiving an error when attempting to delete. Error Unable to destroy work item type Test Case TF237055: You cannot destroy a work item type that is being used. Verify that the work item type is not being used in any categories. Operation failed.  …

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