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Opposing Trends in Feedback on my Help Topics for Team Foundation
When I look at the feedback that we've received for the topics that I wrote or that I've picked up to maintain, I see a generally positive trend. In VS 2008, ratings for these topics are slightly...
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Project Management page views
I've commented several times that page views for project management content are way up in Dev 10. I decided to look at that a little more closely. I looked at the page views for project management as a...
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New Sandcastle builds MSDN-style API Reference
There's a new version of Sandcastle on codeplex . It supports .NET 4, and it builds MSDN-style API Reference topics that are compatible with the new Microsoft Help Viewer that was delivered with Visual...
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Team Foundation SDK for VS 2010
We have just published the first increment of the Team Foundation SDK for VS 2010 . Several months ago, I commented on the negative trend we have seen for the TF SDK content, and I explained that we...
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Team Foundation SDK Feedback
Earlier this year, I noted that I had seen a bad trend in ratings for the Team Foundation SDK content , and that we were going to change course in order to try to correct that. We published the new...
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Customizable process guidance
I've just posted versions of process guidance for Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0, and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement v5.0 on Code Gallery so that you can customize...
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The 5 most read Visual Studio ALM help topics on MSDN
Curious about what other people are reading about Application Lifecycle Management in Visual Studio? Here are the 5 VS ALM topics that are read most often on MSDN: Topic Views Visual Studio Application...
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Team Foundation SDK Improved for VS 2010
Back in January, I wrote this post that showed that we really needed to change directions on the SDK content. The major elements of the new approach are Throw out what was there because it wasn't...
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Creating a Backlog of Content Work
I have posted a couple of series on how we plan content work for Team Foundation, one in 2007 Planning the Sprint Tracking Work Items Reporting Status and the other in 2009. How we Track Content Work...
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The Content Backlog for Team Foundation: It's About What the Developer Does,...
In the past, we managed our work by defining the topics that we need to write, and then estimating and prioritizing the work to write those topics. Before VS2010, that worked really well. We documented...
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Managing Content Development
Back in 2007, I wrote three articles on how the Team Foundation user education team was using work item tracking and reporting features to help manage our content...
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How we track content work.
For a while, we were tracking our work by creating a backlog of scnearios, prioritizing them, then planning the top scenarios for our next iteratoin of work. We broke the scenarios down into tasks and...
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Managing Technical Reviews in TFS and SharePoint
I've alluded to my plans to describe how we use TFS to plan, track progress, and do things like technical reviews. Brian Harry mentioned our tech review process in his blog post, so I'll write about...
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Give us feedback
We published help content for Visual Studuio Team System 2010 Beta 1 that is substantially different from what we published in VSTS 2008. We're anxious to hear what worked well for you and what didn't....
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Summary of Feedback in June on Help Topics for Team Foundation 2010 (Beta 1)
SummaryThere’s a small amount of feedback available. What’s New is the bright spot. Other feedback is on project management, and it’s bad, even though it has jumped to the top of the heap in terms of...
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Visual Studio Team System
By using the suite of tools in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, you can apply proven practices to manage your application's life cycle, from understanding customer needs through code design and...
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June feedback on Beta 1 content for Team Foundation 2010
Earlier this month, I sent this email internally summarizing the feedback we've recieved on the Beta 1 content for Team Foundation.
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Summary of feedback in July on Beta 1 Content for Team Foundation 2010
SummaryThe trends this month are good (or neutral).New content is getting high ratings; existing content is taking the low ratings.No new negative feedback on empty topics; one high rating on an...
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July Feedback on Beta 1 Content for Team Foundation 2010
SummaryThe trends this month are good (or neutral).New content is getting high ratings; existing content is taking the low ratings.No new negative feedback on empty topics; one high rating on an...
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Great Organizations Surprise You
As we write help for Team System, we try to hand topics off for localization as early as we can, but not too early. We don't want to incur the cost of relocalizing topics that we need to change. For...
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