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Team System and Microsoft IT

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In this post (Debating Dogfood Doctrine) I blogged about how internal teams at Microsoft are also dogfooding Team System, not just our product team. Here are three case studies from the Microsoft IT Showcase that help provide insight into their use of Team System.

“Microsoft IT Showcase presents an inside view of the Microsoft IT process for developing, deploying, and managing Microsoft solutions—from Microsoft IT professionals to IT professionals—peer to peer.” – About Microsoft IT Showcase

Extending Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Discussion on how Microsoft IT extended Visual Studio 2005 Team System to incorporate software development lifecycle methodology process by modifying the default process template. By modifying the process template developer compliance increased and external tools were eliminated.

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Integrated Software Development at Microsoft Using Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Discussion on how the eBusiness Integration Services IT development group used Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System to tightly integrate the Software Development Life Cycle process within its team environment.

Technical Case Study | PowerPoint Presentation

Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Discussion on the deployment of Visual Studio 2005 Team System in Microsoft IT to centralize source control and work item tracking for development teams.

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  • Anonymous
    January 25, 2006
    Great link on the extensibility technical case study. There is a great start of a tool to edit the process guidance xml config files (instead of in Notepad) out on GotDotNet. I recently reviewed it provided some walk through and screen shots of the tool that might be of interest to your readers:

    http://paltman.com/archive/2006/01/24/CustomizingTeamFoundationServerProcessGuidanceTemplates.aspx
  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2006
    In this post ( Team System and Microsoft IT ), I talked about dogfooding of Team System at Microsoft