Adam Cogan demoed SSW’s TFS Smashing Barrier at the ALM Conference @ Luna Park yesterday. It’s a neat little user control that has always existed on the SSW website (visible only to internal staff) that allows a user to quickly report an issue on the page and to find out:

• What active tasks are there for the current web page?
• What tasks have been completed for the current web page

It helps stop the following common scenario:

• Tristan: “Hey! This button is atrocious. You should fix it”
• Mark: “I think we’ve got that captured already. Let me check”
• … 5 mins later …
• Mark: “Yep it’s already there.”
• Tristan: “Oh… Okay”
• Mark: “Now what was I doing again…”

5-10 mins might be wasted here