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Use Visual Studio® Team Foundation Server 2012 and Agile Methods to Deliver Higher Value Software Faster
This is the definitive guide to applying agile development and modern software engineering practices with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012—Microsoft’s complementary Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform. Written by the Microsoft Visual Studio product owner and a long-time Team Foundation Server implementation specialist, it focuses on solving real development challenges, systematically eliminating waste, improving transparency, and delivering better software more quickly and painlessly.
Coverage includes
• Accelerating the “flow of value” to customers, with a transparent backlog, PowerPoint Storyboarding, VS 2012 feedback requests, and a “usability lab” right into your customers’ hands
• Driving quality upstream to uncover hidden architectural patterns, ensure cleaner code, fix multiple recurring “cloned” bugs at once, ensure the definition of done with continuous integration and deployment in a reliable build process
• Eliminating “no repro” bugs with VS 2012’s six powerful mechanisms for more accurate fault identification and use of virtualized test environments
• Using Scrum or other Agile methods with Process Templates effectively across distributed teams in large organization by automating burndowns and dashboards to identify “early warning signals” of emerging problems with quality or maintainability
• Staying in the groove by storing the state of your work and environment with shelvesets, to let you handle interruptions smoothly
• Leveraging VS 2012’s new support for multiple Microsoft and open source unit testing frameworks in your IDE and continuous integration pipeline
• Performing exploratory testing to uncover bugs in surprising places and testing immersive Windows 8 apps
• Rapidly improving team development and collaboration with the hosted Team Foundation Service
Whatever your development role, this book will help you apply modern software development practices using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 to focus on what really matters: building software that begins delivering exceptional value sooner and keeps delighting customers far into the future.
Forewords xii
Preface xvi
Acknowledgments xxiii
About the Authors xxiv
1 The Agile Consensus 1
The Origins of Agile 2
Agile Emerged to Handle Complexity 2
Empirical Process Models 4
A New Consensus 5
Scrum 6
An Example 12
Self-Managing Teams 14
Summary 15
Endnotes 16
2 Scrum, Agile Practices, and Visual Studio 19
Visual Studio and Process Enactment 20
Process Templates 21
Process Cycles and TFS 24
Inspect and Adapt 37
Task Boards 37
Kanban 38
Fit the Process to the Project 39
Summary 42
Endnotes 43
3 Product Ownership 45
What Is Product Ownership? 46
Scrum Product Ownership 50
Release Planning 51
Qualities of Service 69
How Many Levels of Requirements 73
Summary 75
Endnotes 75
4 Running the Sprint 77
Empirical over Defined Process Control 78
Scrum Mastery 80
Use Descriptive Rather Than Prescriptive Metrics 86
Answering Everyday Questions with Dashboards 91
Choosing and Customizing Dashboards 98
Using Microsoft Outlook to Manage the Sprint 100
Summary 101
Endnotes 101
5 Architecture 103
Architecture in the Agile Consensus 104
Exploring Existing Architectures 107
Summary 124
Endnotes 126
6 Development 129
Development in the Agile Consensus 130
The Sprint Cycle 131
Keeping the Codebase Clean 132
Staying “in the Groove” 139
Detecting Programming Errors Early 143
Catching Side Effects 154
Preventing Version Skew 162
Making Work Transparent &nb