Introduction to Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server

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Introduction to Visual Studio Team SystemTeam
Foundation Server

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

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Where are you attending from?
Live Meeting Poll

• Where are you attending from?
• Canada
• United States
• South America
• Europe
• Middle East/Africa
• Asia/New Zealand/Australia
• Non-planetary

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What is your primary role?
Live Meeting Poll

• What best describes the role you primarily play
  in your organization?
• Business Stakeholder
• Procurement
• Project Manager/Development Manager
• Developer
• Database Pro
• Test and UAT
• Architect

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The State Of The IndustryResolution of Projects
ChallengesProject Success

• Project success has not significantly improved
  over the last 10 years
• Still only 30 of projects are classed as
  successful

How do you increase successful project outcomes?
Source Standish Group, 2004 Third Quarter
Research Report, CHAOS Research Results
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ChallengesLack of business alignment

• Why do projects fail?
• Lack of user input
• Incomplete requirements and specifications
• Changing requirements and specifications

Are you managing change to requirements?
Is IT getting involved in the business
initiatives at the right time?
Are the requirements being gathered initially the
right ones?
Source Forrester, September 2006, Trends The
Root Of The Problem Poor Requirements, Carey
Schwaber, 2006
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Visual Studio Team SystemExpanding Visual Studio
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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Visual Studio Team SystemApplication Life Cycle
Management (ALM) Solution
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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 Enacted By Tooling
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Process IS important in TFS

• Take your process/methodology and use it
• Does not need to be heavy process
• Grab processes from elsewhere
• Eg SCRUM
• Easily Customizable through Process Templates

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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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Visual Studio Team SystemTeam Foundation Server

• A single, integrated server
• for team collaboration
• Team Portal SharePoint site for team
  collaboration
• Change Management flexible work item tracking
  system for requirements, change requests, bugs,
  issues and other work items
• Project Management manage project resources,
  timelines and quality
• Version Control robust version control system
  forall project artifacts, including branching,
  change sets, and shelving
• Build Server automate team project build,
  analysis, testing
• Reporting central data warehouse for real-time
  project metrics and analytics

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Visual Studio Team SystemTeam Explorer

• Common integrated client to access
• Work Items
• Documents
• Reports
• Team Builds
• Source Code Control
• Single team view of all project artifacts
• Fully integrated into Visual Studio 2005
• Available as stand-alone for business analysts,
  project managers and other team members

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Visual Studio Team SystemWeb Access

• Browser-based access to
• Project Dashboard
• Documents
• Reports
• Work Item Tracking
• Source Code Control
• Single team view of all project artifacts
• Includes Source Control search capabilities
• ASP.NET 2.0 Solution
• Free Download!

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Some Adoption Scenarios

• Replace Source Control (Replace SourceSafe)
• Need to track bugs, etc.
• Want to have a build server to handle promotion
  management
• Need to work towards audit requirements
• Support for distributed teams

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Compliance and Audit

• TFS supports this easily
• Process Guidance details how you work
• Work Items provide a granular audit trail
• Reports used to supplement this
• TFS does all (or most of) the work for you.

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Compliance And Auditing
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Compliance And Auditing
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Integrated Project Portal
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Business Requirements
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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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Check-In Policies
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Managing Work Items
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Database Change Management
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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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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
  25.aspx
• Visual Studio Team System community portal
• http//vstsrocks.net
• Slides
• http//adamga.canitpro.ca
• My Blog
• http//blogs.msdn.com/adamga