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On the flipside, many software teams have openly and..."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cover-secret-ingredient-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/the-secret-ingredient-software-teams-need-to-do-their-best-work","cat":"Time To Code","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/time-to-code","date":"Jun 08, 2017","title":"The Secret Ingredient Software Teams Need to Do Their Best Work","text":"Software development is almost always a team sport. Even products that start with a single developer or creator will often grow in size and scale to include multiple specialized roles, managers, and other players. And they all need to learn how to work together in the best way possible to create the best possible software. This is no small task. In any team, there are conflicting interests, dueling egos, and..."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-New-Blog-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/we-proudly-present-the-new-blog","cat":"7pace","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/7pace","date":"May 11, 2017","title":"We Proudly Present: The New Blog","text":"If you’re reading this message, it’s because you’ve found your way to our new blog. A few months ago, we changed our name and our brand to 7pace. Now, we’re doing something else new and officially launching our blog. If you’d like to hear stuff that we have to say, this will be the best place to do that. Our blog will contain four main categories: Time to code \u0026#8211;..."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/blog-post-Teams_03-150x150.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/keeping-teams-together","cat":"Time To Code","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/time-to-code","date":"May 11, 2017","title":"Keeping Teams Together","text":"Inside your company, some teams perform exceptionally well and other teams probably perform below your expectations. That might mean that they don’t get as much code written, produce work with too many errors, or just generally don’t seem to be all that productive. It probably goes without saying that you’d like it if all of your teams were performing at the level of your best-performing team. So what’s the difference..."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-video-9ways-150x150.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/the-9-best-ways-to-track-your-efforts-with-timetracker","cat":"Watch","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/watch","date":"May 10, 2017","title":"The 9 Best Ways to Track Your Efforts with Timetracker","text":"There are plenty of ways you can enter your time efforts with 7pace Timetracker. Take two minutes to check out our latest movie to learn more about this! Want to dig deeper? Get more information from our documentation about what you have seen \u0026#8211; The 9 Best Ways to Track Your Time Efforts: 9. The Start Tracking Button (see \u0026#8220;The Work Item Details Window\u0026#8221; section): https:\/\/support.7pace.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115000581383-7pace-Timetracker-for-TFS-Web-Access-Overview 8. Tracking from the..."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/support-screenshot-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/the-all-new-support-is-here","cat":"7pace","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/7pace","date":"Mar 24, 2017","title":"The All-New Support is Here!","text":"After months of revising all pieces of our support, the new site is now available to the public."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/blog-post-7pace-rebranding-e1494499340241-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/introducing-7pace-our-new-name-and-brand-identity","cat":"7pace","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/7pace","date":"Mar 08, 2017","title":"Introducing 7pace, Our New Name and Brand Identity","text":"It\u0027s a new day for our company. We are now officially 7pace. Read the details on our rebranding and renaming and what it means for our users."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-Under-support-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/support-sites-renovation","cat":"7pace","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/7pace","date":"Dec 02, 2016","title":"Support sites under construction","text":"In our mission to offer best support for all customers, we are redesigning all support sites. There will be dust and shavings, please read on to check out what is happening."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/TFSTT-for-update-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/tfs-2015-update-3-available","cat":"Time To Code","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/time-to-code","date":"Jul 01, 2016","title":"TFS 2015 Update 3 released","text":"TFS Timetracker is ready for the new Update 3 of TFS 2015"},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-release-update-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/beta-for-tfs-2015-update-2-rc-2","cat":"Time To Code","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/time-to-code","date":"Mar 08, 2016","title":"TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 2 is available","text":"Current beta release of TFS Timetracker is compatible to the latest Microsoft release"},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/marc_connect_onstage-150x150.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/tfs-timetracker-microsoft-connect-2015","cat":"7pace","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/7pace","date":"Nov 23, 2015","title":"TFS Timetracker @ Microsoft Connect() \/\/2015","text":"TFS Timetracker for Visual Studio Team Services, live on Microsoft Developer Division\u0026#8217; largest conference keynote What an awesome experience! We announced the availability of TFS Timetracker for Visual Studio Team Services direct at the Connect(), the biggest event of the development division from Microsoft, live on stage, in the keynote from Brian Harry! It was a couple weeks ago when Microsoft asked us to present TFS Timetracker, on behalf of..."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-new-docs-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/new-documentation-arrived","cat":"7pace","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/7pace","date":"Jul 10, 2015","title":"New documentation arrived!","text":"Fine new art: docs.tfs-timetracker.com All documentation and online help is still available at the same adress, but the look has changes, the content became just bigger and better structured."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-tfs-rc2-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/microsoft-team-foundation-server-2015-rc2-released","cat":"Time To Code","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/time-to-code","date":"Jul 07, 2015","title":"Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 RC2 released","text":"Team Foundation Server 2015 RTM to come later Today Microsoft released the Team Foundation Server 2015 RC2. Yes, this was planned differently. It was announced to ship Team Foundation Server 2015 RTM \u0026#8211; the final version \u0026#8211; together with the complete familiy of Visual Studio products on July 20th. All other Visual Studio products will ship \u0026#8220;before or on July 20th\u0026#8221;."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-rename-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/team-project-rename-soon-available-in-microsoft-team-foundation-server","cat":"Time To Code","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/time-to-code","date":"Apr 27, 2015","title":"Team Project Rename soon available in Microsoft Team Foundation Server","text":"Team Project? Rename it! Today one of these news arrived at our desks that are fairly small but yet long awaited \u0026#8211; Microsoft finally added to Team Foundation Server a feature that no one of us could understand why it was missing: Renaming of a team project."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-CTP1-150x150.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/microsoft-team-foundation-server-2015-is-approaching","cat":"Time To Code","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/time-to-code","date":"Apr 24, 2015","title":"Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP1","text":"TFS 2015 CTP1 is available for testing This week we have successfully tested the compatibility of TFS Timetracker with the latest preliminary release: Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Community Technical Preview 1."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-New-shop-150x150.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/new-shop-is-online","cat":"7pace","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/7pace","date":"Mar 11, 2015","title":"New shop is online!","text":"Web, Shop, Blog \u0026#8211; the online appearance of TFS Timetracker has been redesigned Last week we released our new shop to public, together with a redesined website. While the changes in web and blog are more of cosmetic nature, the shop has been undergoing a significant extension and offers customers now a lot more than just simple \u0026#8220;check-out\u0026#8221;. In the lifecycle of using TFS Timetracker there are kind a lot of requirements...."},{"image":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover-doc2-150x150.png","link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/new-online-documentation-released","cat":"7pace","cat_link":"https:\/\/www.7pace.com\/blog\/category\/7pace","date":"Nov 24, 2014","title":"New Online Documentation Released","text":"TFS Timetracker Now With Comprehensive Online Documentation Today we released the new Online Documentation for TFS Timetracker. Whenever you need a tutorial or help you are invited to http:\/\/docs.tfs-timetracker.com, which will server as a fully indexed source of all knowledge how to configure and use TFS Timetracker."}]