If for some reason your TFS build takes up long time to finish, you can easily reduce that time by following a few simple steps:
- Stop indexing sources
- Deploy only the files that are necessary to run the application
- Disable "Analyze test impact"
- Disable "Associate Changesets and Work Items"
In my case the initial build time took ~130 seconds.
After introducing those simple steps I reduced that time to 70 seconds.
In case you have a big team, that's constantly contributing that really makes a difference! :)
