I have recently been looking at the EMC Scrum for Team Systems (SFTS) 3 Template for TFS 2010 with SharePoint 2010. The core of it works, and works well for Scrum based teams. If you have not used it before have a read of the getting started post to get a feel of what it can do.

However, there are some issues when you …

I have a couple of community speaking engagements coming up

• May 11 BCS Edinburgh on Agile Methods
• July 21 NxtGen Southampton on Test Driven development and mocking

Both are free, so if you are in the either area, I would be surprised if you were at both given the locations, I hope you can come along

I posted in the past about my though processes on getting a Kindle, they boiled down to to

1. Why do the books cost virtually as much as paper edition when the author gets no more royalties and the production/distribution costs as far lower?
2. I don’t want an extra device to carry about

Well I have been using the WP7 …

Recently I posted on How to use the TFS 2010 Community StyleCop Build Activity and I am sure it all sounded very awkward and complex, well it did to me.

The point I should have made is that you don’t have to follow this process every time you want to make use of the custom activity. As long as the build process …

Over the holiday I have been reading Professional Foundation Server 2010 by Ed Blankenship, Martin Woodward, Grant Holiday and Brian Keller, yes I know how to have time off and have fun!

So who is this book for? It is a comprehensive guide to TFS 2010, the components and their usage, but this does not mean the book is …

I am always being asked when at events for details of books I have recommended. So I have added a list of books I have found useful to this blog, it can be found at http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/rfennell/pages/reading-list.aspx.

Thus far I have added the ones I have been looking at recently, but will add more as …

Microsoft as ever have been busy with new drops and SP1 refreshes of technology for us all to embrace and here is a summary update for this month

The Microsoft F# (2.0.0.0), April 2011 Community Technology Preview is available here

While not all new if you are looking at F# I would suggest keeping an eye on

F# …

[Updated 27th April 2011 Also see How to use the TFS 2010 Community StyleCop Build Actvity (Addendum)]

The Codeplex Community TFS Build Extensions contains a StyleCop activity, but the way to use it is less than obvious. This is not helped by the complexity in using any custom activity within TFS 2010 builds. In this …

A while ago I posted on my experiences running multiple instances of 2010 build service on a single VM. Well a couple more experiences as now one of my VM is running 3 instances.

Firstly it seems to work OK, you have to have the right build profile i.e. fairly low load but a need to support many Team Project …

Over the weekend we have released Black Marble’s WP7 TFS Phone client to the WP7 Marketplace.

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