In this interview, Donovan Brown interviews Group Program Manager Aaron Bjork about self-forming teams and the yellow sticky exercise. Self-forming teams at scale by Brian Harry Blog: DonovanBrown.comFollow @DonovanBrown Follow @aaronbjork

In this interview, Donovan Brown interviews Group Program Manager Aaron Bjork about Agile Planning. Measure What Matters, by John Doer Blog: DonovanBrown.comFollow @DonovanBrown Follow @aaronbjork

In this interview, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Architect TQ shows us how they designs and versions its own Microservices behind Microsoft Cloud-hosted DevOps service. [01:26] Versioning[04:12] Deprecating a version[12:18] Transformation into Microservices[14:21] How to find versions[20:00] Online Help[21:46] Version negotiation[30:48] Break down the monolith[32:52] Containers[34:20] Are these pure Microservices More info aka.ms/DevOps

In this video Donovan Brown interviews Tony Seeley, Group Program Manager who works in the Windows and Devices Group (WDG), Engineering Systems team, overseeing the group managing the source control system which is used by thousands of users working on code for an extensive portfolio of products including Xbox, Surface, Windows Store and of course the Windows operating system itself. Throughout the interview Tony will describe how Windows moved all its source code, 350gigs worth, from an inhouse solution to Git repos hosted inside of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). He'll cover the details of what it took to get such a large repository hosted inside of Git by overcoming Git's technical limitations, such as the GVFS work that unblocked it (and is now open source). He'll also talk about why they undertook this difficult journey in the first place, such as reducing training cost, following industry trends, modernization of their engineering system and enabling more flexibility to the product teams ability to ship and innovate around Windows. Get started with VSTS: https://www.visualstudio.com/vsts

In this video Donovan Brown interviews Jill Campbell, Group Program Manager who works in the Windows and Devices Group (WDG), Engineering Systems team, overseeing the process and tools Windows uses to plan work across tens of thousands of employees and an extensive portfolio of products including Xbox, Surface, Windows Store and of course the Windows operating system itself. Throughout the interview Jill will describe how Windows moved all these product teams from various tools to a unified process powered by Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), and how VSTS scales for them along with the flexibility and customizability which enabled them to be successful in managing over 11 million work items, across 33,000 users (across all of Microsoft) and with teams varying in processes ranging from Agile through to Waterfall.

In this interview, Principal DevOps Manager Donovan Brown interviews Principal Group Program Manager Aaron Bjork about how the release notes for VSTS are generated for each release. [00:50] Set the stage[01:15] Release Notes Page[02:14] How are they created[02:40] DoD[03:12] Not everything requires release notes[03:53] Feature Flags![04:40] Release notes in action[05:04] Delivery Plans[06:19] When do we set the flag?[06:52] When should you write the release notes?[08:45] How do you find all the release notes?[09:35] Sprint mails[11:20] The query of items needing release notes[12:10] Bringing it all together with Markdown[13:42] Pull requests[15:45] Keys to making it work Blog: DonovanBrown.comFollow @DonovanBrown Follow @aaronbjork

In this interview, Director of Engineering Munil Shah returns to share insights on how our quality practices had to change to support of Visual Studio Team Services. [00:43] Quality in the Cloud cadence[02:00] Types of tests[03:59] New Approach[05:37] Shift Left[07:09] Combined Engineering [13:30] Quality Vision[21:27] Pull Request[24:54] Advice for others[28:39] Rolling CI Pipeline

In this interview, Director of Engineering Munil Shah returns to answer the questions asked about Safe Deployment of Visual Studio Team Services. [00:32] Deployment Rings[05:39] RM Deployment Definition[08:30] Ring 4a[11:35] Branching / CI[14:14] Hot Fixes[16:54] Cherrypicking changes[17:46] We never delete branches[20:10] Deployment frequency Blog: DonovanBrown.comFollow @DonovanBrown Follow @munilsh

In this interview, recorded live from Ignite 2017, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate Damian Brady interviews Senior Program Manager Edward Thomson about Git in Visual Studio Team Services. [00:19] Source control options in VSTS and TFS[02:20] Microsoft Engineering's move to VSTS and Git[03:52] Managing Git at scale - GVFS[06:05] Accessing a Git repository in VSTS Blog: Damovisa.meFollow @damovisa Follow @ethomson

In this interview, Principal DevOps Manager Donovan Brown interviews Director of Engineering Munil Shah about Safe Deployment of Visual Studio Team Services. [00:40] Scale Units[03:54] Safe Deployment Practices[04:28] Rings[09:20] Performance Testing[10:24] Go Big Environment[12:40] Feature Flags & Stages[15:45] Preview Flag[19:25] Testing[24:29] DB or Binaries who goes first[27:52] DB Schema Management[32:35] API Versions[18:50] Feature Flags! Blog: DonovanBrown.comFollow @DonovanBrown Follow @munilsh