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Take a look at a proposal (Visual Studio Team System User Education : Scenario Topics) from David Chesnut of the Team System User Education Team that looks to replace the current orientation-style topics found in the product documentation with something a bit more useful. As always, your feedback is crucial and greatly appreciated.

To me, scenarios represent something fundamental. Documentation should map technology (e.g. work item lists) into the problem space the user is working in (e.g. to track project progress). These serve the same purpose as an abstract in a lengthy technical document: Telling the reader succinctly the key points of the content section so they can decide if they need to read any further.

Source: Visual Studio Team System User Education : Scenario Topics

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My previous team, Team System User Education, wants your feedback on publishing a consolidated set of docs for setup. Today, you need to read at least three different docs to install Team Foundation Server (readme, known issues, and the installation guide). What if we put all of this information in the installation guide?

Do you like having a separate Readme document published under MSDN Support, or would you prefer to have setup related issues included only in the Installation Guide?

Source: Why aren’t installation issues in the installation guide?

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Throughout the software development life cycle oodles of data streams into the Team Foundation Server data warehouse. It takes many data points to illustrate a trend and guide decision making for managing a project. The two process templates that ship with Team Foundation Server include a number of reports for visualizing this data. However, do they answer the questions you're asking, or the questions your stakeholders are asking you?

The Team Foundation Server Reporting team developed a brief (15-minute) survey to assess your reporting needs as they toil away on the next release of the product. By participating in this survey, you may very well save yourself the time of creating your own custom reports. Take the survey and let your needs be known!

Team Foundation Server Reporting Survey

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