I was asked to speak on a topic at the New Mexico .Net Users Group. I chose to speak on TFS and it's role in Continuous Integration and Agile. I'll be posting my presentation here for the participants and anyone else that may find it useful.
The in progress presentation can be found here.
3 comments:
It was a good presentation, Chris, I enjoyed it. I've got a couple of questions I wanted to ask, specifically about TFS, more than CI. Really clarifications. First, does the newest version of TFS you discussed on Thursday night support VS 2005, VS 2008, VS 2010 as well as VS 2011 beta?
Second, I'm pretty sure you said that this new version of TFS does not require an administrator; I just want to double check that. We're such a small shop that we just don't have anyone in-house who can administer another thing. That has been one of the biggest reasons why we're still with VSS (it just functions, and that's been good enough for the last umpteen years). But VSS is beginning to gives us a lot of problems, so I've been thinking about TFS. But we've got to be able to just install it, and let it take care of itself. We'll use it, but can't spend time administering it. Will this new version, the one that's free for 5 or fewer developers (and we definately fit that description) just run itself?
Rod, I would say that you do not need an administrator as long as you create a basic backup scheme using the Maintenance Plan wizard in SQL. My main comment to you regarding this was there was minimal impact on administration, such that it isn't a full time job nor would it add more than a few minutes a month to any one persons administration tasks. It should just "run itself".
I did run into problems with creating Team Projects with anything other than VS2011 though. I am not sure why but it seems Microsoft may wish this to be by design. I would hold of if I were you until we can answer the question "How can you create Team Projects without VS 2011" I was a bit upset about this as well. If I find an answer I'll post up.
That's a very good idea, Chris. We don't tend to work with any version of Visual Studio until it's out of beta. I'll leave TFS alone, for now.
Thanks for the feedback!
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