Team System and Microsoft Solutions Framework

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Team System andMicrosoft Solutions Framework

• Alan Cameron Wills
• Architect, MSF
• Alan.Wills_at_microsoft.com

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Team System andMicrosoft Solutions Framework

• Team collaboration tools
• Process authoring
• Guidance
• MSF-Agile MSF-CMMI
• Software Factories
• Future developments

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Team Collaboration
What do I do when ?
What should I do next ?
What should I do when ?
What should I do when?
Where are we up to?
Where are we up to?
How can I ?
What do I do next?
How can I ?
How do we ensure that ?
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Team Collaboration Tools
List of things to do
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Team Collaboration Tools
List of things to do
Guidance on what to do
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Team Collaboration Tools
List of things to do
Guidance on what to do
Status reports
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Team Collaboration Tools
List of things to do
Guidance on what to do
Status reports

• Planning
• MS Project
• MS Excel

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Team Collaboration Tools
List of things to do
Guidance on what to do
Status reports

• Planning
• MS Project
• MS Excel

Source control
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Team Collaboration Tools
List of things to do
Guidance on what to do
Status reports

• Planning
• MS Project
• MS Excel

Team builds
Source control
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Team Collaboration Tools
List of things to do
Guidance on what to do
Status reports
Rules

• Planning
• MS Project
• MS Excel

Team builds
Source control
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Team Collaboration Tools
List of things to do
Guidance on what to do
Status reports
Rules

• Planning
• MS Project
• MS Excel

Team builds
Source control
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Team Foundation

• Facilitates team collaboration
• Work Item Management progress monitoring
• Bugs
• Development Tasks
• Issues
• Source control
• Team Build Test
• Document management
• SharePoint
• Guidance

Team Foundation Server
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Visual Studio Team System
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Visual Studio Team System
Visual StudioTeam Architect
Visual StudioTeam Developer
Visual StudioTeam Test
Visual StudioTeam Foundation
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Team Collaboration Tools

• Team System helps users collaborate
• Record progress of work in typed Work Items
• Bugs, Tasks, Issues, etc
• Get lists of items
• My tasks Triage list work this iteration etc
• See reports (with graphs) summarizing progress
• View overall status on a web portal
• Source management
• Nightly / continuous build test
• Get guidance on process and how to use tools

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Team System and Microsoft Solutions Framework

• Team collaboration tools
• Process authoring
• Guidance
• MSF-Agile MSF-CMMI
• Software Factories
• Future developments

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Work Item States
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MSF-CMMI Task work item state transitions
Work Item Type Editing Tool
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MSF-Agile Bug work item state transitions
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MSF-Agile Bug state transitions - rules
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Process Templates - project starting points
Choice of template determines the initial - Set
of Work Item Types - Project kickoff work items
- Queries, Reports, - Process documentation
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Process Template Contents

• Work Product Definition Examples
• Documents Plans

• Work Item Definition
• Types, Fields, States, Transitions, Layout,
• Initial Project Work Items

Queries Reports
Project Portal Definition

• Narrative Description
• Roles (Developer)
• Work Streams (Fix a bug)
• Activities (Create a Unit Test)
• Views (By Discipline, Project Management)
• Specific Methodology Concepts

Permission Group Definition
Iteration Definition
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The Team Foundation Landscape

• TFS provides a generic platform supporting a wide
  space of processes
• Agile - waterfall, realtime - IP, small - large,
  product-line individual project,
• Projects are distributed across this space
• MSF provides
• Good starting points on the space
• Tools to make it easy to move around in the space
• .

large
small
waterfall
agile
Many more than 2 dimensions!
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Team System is Configurable

• You can configure your own process support
• Work Item Types, queries, reports, web portal,
  guidance, build system, rules,
• You create a project from a template
• We (MS and others) provide starting points
• Process Templates
• You can adjust the configurations both on the fly
  and in templates