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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback


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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.  

Table of Contents:
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 170 Summary 171 Endnotes 173 7 Build and Lab 175 Cycle Time   176 Defining Done 177 Continuous Integration   179 Automating the Build 181 Automating Deployment to Test Lab   186 Elimination of Waste 199 Summary 203 Endnotes   204 8 Test 207 Testing in the Agile Consensus   208 Testing Product Backlog Items 211 Actionable Test Results and Bug Reports 215 Handling Bugs 223 Which Tests Should Be Automated?    223 Automating Scenario Tests 224 Load Tests, as Part of the Sprint 228 Production-Realistic Test Environments 234 Risk-Based Testing 236 Summary 238 Endnotes 239 9 Lessons Learned at Microsoft Developer Division 241 Scale 242 Business Background 243 Improvements after 2005 247 Results 256 Acting on the Agile Consensus 256 Lessons Learned 258 The Path to Visual Studio 2012 262 Endnotes   263 10 Continuous Feedback 265 Agile Consensus in Action 266 Continuous Feedback Allows Build/Measure/Learn 267 There’s No Place Like Production 269 Summary 271 Endnotes 274 Index 275

About the Author :
Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner for the Microsoft Visual Studio product line strategy, acts as chief customer advocate, responsible for end-to-end external design of new Visual Studio releases. He has 30 years’ experience as software architect, developer, tester, product manager, project manager, and executive. Before joining Microsoft, he was Director of Product Line Strategy at Rational Software Corporation, now the Rational Division of IBM. He holds  five patents on software lifecycle tools, is a frequent conference speaker, and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard.  Neno Loje has been an independent Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) consultant and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) specialist for seven years, helping many companies establish team environments and development processes with Visual Studio.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780321864871
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback
  • Width: 181 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0321864875
  • Publisher Date: 27 Sep 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 516 gr


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