In this post I would like to continue speaking about how TFS helps me to path through project detailed planning phase. Initiate discussion can be found at Projects Detailed Planning Phase. Why TFS?. This time I will speak about Risk work item and how we use it in Project Management….
Today I will describe one more report we’ve created in order to analyze how baseline hours refers to the actual time spent on the solution of the task. This information is rather useful. Baseline hours in our team are planned by a single manager and he does not know who…
In this post I will speak about how we’re getting feedback from our users. This procedure includes: Send and collect feedback in our local Request Registration System (you can see our architecture in the http://borisfrolov.com/2012/08/12/basic-work-item-fields-description/). Send collected information to TFS. Form Application Survey reports. So, let’s start from the beginning….
One of the most important measures of system stability is how many not closed bugs exist at present moment. I will not speak about SLA here (or how quickly IT team is closing them) – this will be the subject of future post. So, how to track number of open…
One of the sessions on Microsoft TechEd 2012 Russia was dedicated to KPIs in IT. It has interested me rather greatly, as in my role as Team Lead I have to deal with them at least weekly. So I’ve decided to dwell on this topic and in the first post…
Last week I’ve visited Microsoft TechEd 2012 in Russia, Moscow. In this post I would like to share some emotions and impressions from the conference. Everything for me began on Friday’s evening November 23rd, when I received the invitation to the conference as a presenter of a mini session about…
In this post I will continue to speak about project management and how TFS helps me handling it. I’ve started from Project Kick-off meeting, then we have created branches for project’s code and reserved iterations for development and testing. Now we are ready for Detailed Planning phase. Still we are…
In this post I will continue speaking about projects, but now I will come back to TFS. Today’s story is about Merge & Branch structure and strategy for projects and significant changes. In one scheme it can be presented the following: So we have four branch directions: Main branch –…
From this post I would like to dwell on IT projects: how we manage projects, how TFS helps us handling them, what reports we are using. The first post will be dedicated to the Project Kick off meeting, as it is the first public project event. Kick off meeting –…
In this post I would like to speak about support reports. We have systems that are in production for quite a long period of time. And business wants some additional changes and new functionality to be implemented to the current systems. We unite such tasks into several categories and allocate…
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