Visual Studio Team SystemTeam Foundation Server Understanding Team Development

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Visual Studio Team System-Team Foundation
ServerUnderstanding Team Development

• Adam Gallant
• Developer Solutions Technical Specialist
• adam.gallant_at_microsoft.com
• Blog http//blogs.msdn.com/adamga
• Web http//adamga.canitpro.ca

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ChallengesWhy do many projects fail?

• Inadequate communications
• Lack of user input
• Incomplete requirements and specifications
• Changing requirements and specifications

Are the requirements being gathered initially the
right ones?
Are you managing change to requirements?
Are all roles sharing info in a central place?
Source Forrester, September 2006, Trends The
Root Of The Problem Poor Requirements, Carey
Schwaber, 2006
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Visual Studio Team SystemCollaboration across
the Application Life Cycle
Developer
Database Professional
Designer
Architect
Tester
Business Analyst
IT / ProjectManager
Team Collaboration
Software Quality
Project Transparency
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Facilitate Team Collaboration

• Approachable and intuitive products
• Tight integration across tools, process and roles
• Single integrated server for greater
  communication and collaboration

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Process IS important in TFS

• Your recipe or roadmap for everyone to follow to
  get to the same end
• A common language that all team members speak
• Whatever your process/methodology is (Does not
  need to be heavy process)
• Grab processes from elsewhere or easily
  Customizable through Process Templates and
  graphical editor

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Process Enacted By Tooling
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Process Templates

• Make the entire system work the way you want it
  to work
• Define your (bug, etc) definition, your terms,
  your form layout, and workflow
• Create your own process guidance easily
• Create your own look and feel for a collaboration
  portal
• Include all of your document templates, other
  artifacts
• Include your own roles and security settings
• Include your own reporting

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Project Portal services
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Requirements and Management
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Project Planning
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Team Explorer
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Web Access
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Work Item Association
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Managing Work Items
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Build And Deployment
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Increasing Project Transparency

• Real-time reporting from data warehouse
• Audit trail for compliance
• Improve predictability and reduce risk

Predictable Results
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What Requirements Havent Been Tested?
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How Far Can We Get In The Available Time?
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Where Do We Need To Shift Resources?
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Scope Creep
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How Effective Is Our (Outsourced) Team?
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Inadequate Unit Testing
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Prescriptive Guidance

• Team Development with Team Foundation Server
• http//www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide
• Guidance on
• Source Code Control structures
• Project Management
• Reporting
• Build Services

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How do I get started?

• Evaluate the Team Editions today
• Trial Editions
• http//msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa7186
  67.aspx
• Get free Basics Training!
• Modules, Hands-on Labs, fully configured Virtual
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• http//www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fa
  milyid527E2A17-1DEA-4D0B-9484-6AE43D00E570displa
  ylangen
• Other VSTS Webcasts
• Search http//blogs.msdn.com/adamga for Team
  System Webcast

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Other Resources

• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server home page
• http//msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa7188
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• Visual Studio Team System community portal
• http//vstsrocks.net
• Slides
• http//adamga.canitpro.ca
• My Blog
• http//blogs.msdn.com/adamga