Key takeaways to keep applying: – Leading vs Managing (remember to manage ‘things’ and ‘lead’ people) – Establish trust with your team by demonstrating that you value what they value – Eliminate expectation gaps – Keep giving feedback that feeds using the ‘Do well’ & ‘Do differently’ formulas Here’s a link to a short video […]
Feature Release Management using Pipelines
This covers best practices in managing feature releases in TFS / Visual Studio and using Azure. Release Pipelines and Management Build once and have it deploy to multiple environments. The concept is to de-couple the build from deploy. The deploy is a pipeline, from dev to int to stage to prod. In between these […]
DevOps integration with Team Foundation Server
DevOps Dev + Ops = Delivery and support of software Dev and Ops work closely together Use of automation Build Test Deploy MonitoringInfrastructure (like use of containers / docker)Frequent ReleasesQuick testing Creates predictability and consistency (a delivery every 30 days) Define what DONE means Works in smaller chunks prioritizes the backlog TFS and Team […]
Code Management using Branches
Managing Hot Fixes and Code Quality Branches and Code Reviews TFVC vs Git Branching by feature is nice, and Git supports branching very easily. But note that each branch requires integration (merge). So having more branches mean there are potentially more merges. Some issues when doing too much branches. One good scenario for branching is […]