This book will help you get started with agile project management using
Microsoft's latest releases of its market-leading Team Foundation Server
(TFS) 2015, and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The book
demonstrates agile concepts and how to implement them using TFS/VSTS.
Many organizations are using agile practices today. Agility has become a
key enabler for running better projects with more successful end results
and high quality output. At the same time, adoption of TFS/VSTS has
increased dramatically, from being just a new version control system in
the very beginning to becoming the fully-featured market leader it is
today.
In order to benefit the most from agile practices you need an
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toolset that supports your way of
working. With TFS/VSTS, Microsoft has provided a powerful tool that is
very customizable. This book shows you how you can use TFS/VSTS to
implement many agile practices and how they fit into a well-thought-out
ALM implementation.
The book also shows how an agile product owner can work with TFS/VSTS to
setup an agile project from scratch and how to continue using TFS/VSTS
throughout the whole project to track progress, create and refine the
backlog, and work with Kanban and Scrum Task boards.
Keeping track of progress is important in any project. TFS/VSO includes
many tools which will help you to track key metrics in an agile project.
Many useful reports are available out of the box, and the TFS
extensibility offers several ways to further customize reporting to fit
your needs.
What You Will Learn:
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Agile Concepts and Processes
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How TFS/VSO supports agile processes end to end
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How you can customize TFS/VSO to better support your processes
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How to set up an agile project from scratch and manage it over its
lifecycle
