Managing the Software Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2005 Team System

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Managing the Software Lifecycle with Visual
Studio 2005 Team System

• Kate Gregory
• Gregory Consulting Limited
• kate_at_gregcons.com
• www.gregcons.com/kateblog

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Agenda

• The Business Environment
• Visual Studio Team System
• Team System for Project Managers
• Team System for Architects
• Team System for Developers
• Team System for Testers
• Team System for Key Stakeholders

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The Business Environment

• Accelerating rates of change in business and
  technology
• Shorter product cycles
• Increasing diverse and complex products and
  services
• Evolving business models
• Rapidly changing requirements regulations,
  legislation, growing consumer demands
• Rising competitive pressures
• Globalization

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Project Success is Rare
Succeeded
Challenged
Failed
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2004
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Source The Standish Group International, Extreme
Chaos, The Standish Group International, Inc.,
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Roles
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Spanning the Team
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Team System Editions
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Architects
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Developers
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Testers
Visual StudioTeam Foundation Server
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Team Foundation Server
Integrated Platform for Collaborating on Software
Development Projects
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Team System Integration
Latest Item Version
Build
Changeset
Work Item
Versioned Item
Project Structure
Label
Test Results
Iteration Structure
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Key Project Manager Benefits

• Encourages communication between members of the
  development team
• You can view the data the way you want
• Your team is on the same page
• Makes projects more predictable
• Tool is integrated with the software you and your
  team uses every day
• Visual Studio, Office, Project SharePoint
• Reduces risk by alerting you to problems earlier
  in the lifecycle

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Team System (Project Managers)
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Architects
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Developers
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Testers
Visual StudioTeam Foundation Server
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Project Management
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Key Architect Benefits

• Improves collaboration between architects and
  other team members
• Synchronizes design and code
• Provides integration of best practices and
  guidance
• Provides a graphical model to describe the
  capabilities and constraints of your specific
  software application and IT infrastructure
• Allows you to validate software designs against a
  model of the target infrastructure

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Distributed System Designers
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Team System (Architects)
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Architects
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Developers
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Testers
Visual StudioTeam Foundation Server
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Architecture
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Key Developer Benefits

• Full Featured Version Control
• Shared check-out
• Supports distributed teams
• Code Analysis
• Both managed and unmanaged code
• Part of build process and check-in policy
• Integrated Unit Testing
• Data driven tests and Code Coverage
• Integrated debugging
• Code Profiling
• Sampling and Instrumentation

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Team Foundation Source Control

• Built new from the ground up
• 3-tier ASP.NET Web service
• SQL Server 2005 data store

Totally New Version Control System

• Integrated check-in
• Shelving
• Source Control Explorer
• More

Lots of New Features

• Support for distributed teams
• Secure, reliable, and scalable
• Future tool for Microsoft

Built for the Enterprise
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Team System (Developers)
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Architects
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Developers
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Testers
Visual StudioTeam Foundation Server
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Development
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Key Tester Benefits

• Improved communication with the rest of the
  development team
• Automatically report results of tests
• Easily share detailed test results with team
  members
• File bug reports from Visual Studio
• Easily create Web tests
• Data-driven and extensible
• Distributed load tests runs can be coordinated
  from several machines

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Team System (Testers)
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Architects
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Developers
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Testers
Visual StudioTeam Foundation Server
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Testing
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Benefits for Key Stakeholders

• Numerous reports graphically represent current
  status of project
• Powerful, scalable and extensible reporting
• Based on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
• Fully populated Data Warehouse and
  Multidimensional Cube supports detailed custom
  queries and pivot tables
• Team portal provides Web based collaboration
  interface

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Reporting Extensibility
SQL Server Reporting Services
Reporting Warehouse
Excel
Reporting Warehouse Object Model
Custom Reporting
Test/Build Adapter
Work Item Adapter
Source Code Adapter
Add-on Adapter
Partner ToolA
Work Item Tracking
Source Code Control
Build Database
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Team System (Key Stakeholders)
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Architects
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Developers
Visual Studio Team EditionSoftware Testers
Visual StudioTeam Foundation Server
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Reporting
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Team System

• A powerful tool for Team collaboration
• Project Managers enjoy a detailed view of project
  progress
• Software and infrastructure architects can
  communicate features and constraints to each
  other in a single model
• Developers have a huge new set of integrated
  tools
• Testers have a powerful and extensible integrated
  testing environment
• Powerful reporting capability makes project
  tracking simpler for all stakeholders

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