A Microsoft Scrum template for TFS

Microsoft has always delivered two process templates with TFS: MSF Agile and MSF for CMMI. Next to this there have always been a lot of third party process templates available.

With TFS 2010 a new MSF Agile template was released. As this template felt very ‘Scrum-ish’ but wasn’t really Scrum, teams trying to Scrum using the MSF Agile template had a hard time to match the concepts and principles to the template. For example, it uses different terminology like Iteration rather than Sprint, User Story rather than “Product Backlog item”, etc.

This week Microsoft released a beta version of a TFS process template specifically optimized for Scrum projects – Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta.

So if you want to do Scrum(or are already doing it) and you are using TFS, certainly check out this template. I didn’t try it myself, that will be something for the upcoming weeks. I’ll post more about it later.

And don’t forget that there is still the excellent Scrum for Team System out there.

Azure DevOps/ GitHub emoji

I’m really bad at remembering emoji’s. So here is cheat sheet with all emoji’s that can be used in tools that support the github emoji markdown markup: All credits go to rcaviers who created this list.

Kubernetes–Limit your environmental impact

Reducing the carbon footprint and CO2 emission of our (cloud) workloads, is a responsibility of all of us. If you are running a Kubernetes cluster, have a look at Kube-Green . kube-green is a simple Kubernetes operator that automatically shuts down (some of) your pods when you don't need them. A single pod produces about 11 Kg CO2eq per year( here the calculation). Reason enough to give it a try! Installing kube-green in your cluster The easiest way to install the operator in your cluster is through kubectl. We first need to install a cert-manager: kubectl apply -f https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/releases/download/v1.14.5/cert-manager.yaml Remark: Wait a minute before you continue as it can take some time before the cert-manager is up & running inside your cluster. Now we can install the kube-green operator: kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kube-green/kube-green/releases/latest/download/kube-green.yaml Now in the namespace where we want t

DevToys–A swiss army knife for developers

As a developer there are a lot of small tasks you need to do as part of your coding, debugging and testing activities. DevToys is an offline windows app that tries to help you with these tasks. Instead of using different websites you get a fully offline experience offering help for a large list of tasks. Many tools are available. Here is the current list: Converters JSON <> YAML Timestamp Number Base Cron Parser Encoders / Decoders HTML URL Base64 Text & Image GZip JWT Decoder Formatters JSON SQL XML Generators Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) UUID 1 and 4 Lorem Ipsum Checksum Text Escape / Unescape Inspector & Case Converter Regex Tester Text Comparer XML Validator Markdown Preview Graphic Color B

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