Category Archives: TFS

Integrating Agile into Your Portfolio Management Processes (Part 2)

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

In that last post, I talked briefly about how to perform a functional analysis as a prelude to integrating agile project methodologies into a mixed PPM environment.  In this post, I’d like take a closer look at some of the … Continue reading →

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Integrating Agile into Your Portfolio Management Processes (Part 1)

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

Enjoying one of those rare confluences where my blogging, professional and speaking lives all converge at the same moment into the same topic.  As it looks like I’ll be presenting this at the upcoming Houston PMI blowout, I figured I’d … Continue reading →

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TFS Integration and the Increasingly Misnamed Microsoft Project Server

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

The release this past week of the updated TFS 2012 – Project Server 2013 demo image underscored a point that we’ve been making in discussions with implementing organizations of late: Project Server is really no longer the appropriate name for … Continue reading →

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Selecting Time Tracking Options for TFS Integration

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Well, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks professionally and on this blog.  During that time, I’ve set my sights on Microsoft Project Professional, SharePoint 2010, Visio Professional, and taken a brief excursion into the world of Ideation.  Spinning the … Continue reading →

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Know Thy Operational Integration Model

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

Sooner or later, every IT department implementation faces the issue of how to integrate their EPM tool with their operational service desk management tool.  This is not only an issue for IT, as I have seen the same challenges in … Continue reading →

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Configuring the TFS Connection

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

While configuring a proof of concept environment to demonstrate the TFS-Project Server integration the other day, I decided to take notes of my observations.  Those notes became a blog post – which you are now reading.  I am not sure … Continue reading →

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First Look: Project Server TFS Demo Image

Posted on May 24, 2011 by

Microsoft released the much awaited Project Server TFS demo image a couple of weeks ago, and I sat down this weekend to actually start working with it and getting some hands on experience.  This post is not necessarily meant as … Continue reading →

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