Managing Agile Projects Using TFS 2017

3 Days

18 CPD hours

This course is designed for project managers, Scrum masters, business analysts, and team leaders looking to effectively manage their development projects using Team Foundation Server 2017.

The course also demonstrates how TFS facilitates the use of storyboards to prototype experiences, request stakeholder feedback, foster team collaboration, and generate reports. The final two modules of the course provide an overview of how testers and developers can work effectively using appropriate tools in the Visual Studio family.

In this course, attendees will plan a new software development project and go through the steps to initiate the project using Visual Studio 2017. This includes recording requirements, creating a product backlog, and estimating effort for backlog items.

Introducing the Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Family

• What?s new in Visual Studio 2017
• Overview of the Visual Studio 2017 family
• Overview of product features
• Project workflow across the Visual Studio 2017 suite of products

Initiating a New Project

• Organizing projects in TFS
• Understanding process templates
• Creating a new team project
• Setting team project properties
• Switching between team projects

Work Item Primer

• Overview of work items
• Traceability between work items
• Searching and creating custom queries
• Work item charting and pinning charts
• Work item tagging
• Configuring project notifications

Creating our Product Backlog

• Examining requirement types
• Creating backlog items
• Creating requirement hierarchies using features
• The importance of acceptance criteria

Agile Estimation

• Introduction to estimation
• Using story points
• Planning Poker and other popular estimation techniques
• Adding your estimates to TFS work items

Working from the Product Backlog

• Introducing the Kanban board
• Entering and editing details on the Kanban board
• Customizing columns, including using split columns and limiting WIP
• Recording our Definition of Done (DoD)
• Understanding the Cumulative Flow Diagram

Working in Sprints

• Specifying your sprint schedule and your team capacity
• Selecting items for the sprint backlog using forecasting
• Decomposing requirements into tasks
• Using burndown charts to track progress
• Monitoring work using the task board
• Working with unparented work items

Retrospectives

• The importance of retrospectives
• Conducting an efficient sprint retrospective
• What you should avoid in your retrospective

Working with TFS Teams

• Configuring teams in our team project
• Managing work from a master backlog
• Allocating work to our teams
• Configuring iterations for TFS teams

Enhancing Requirements Using Storyboards

• Overview of storyboarding capabilities
• Creating a storyboard to illustrate a requirement
• Linking a storyboard to a work item

Getting Stakeholder Feedback

• Introducing the Microsoft Feedback Client
• Using the Microsoft Feedback Client to provide rich feedback to the team
• Adding continuous feedback into your workflow

Fostering Team Collaboration

• An overview of the various clients
• The use of email in sharing information
• Choosing the appropriate client tool

Creating and Customizing Reports

• Overview of reporting architecture
• Reviewing the out of the box reports
• Adding new reports
• Creating ad hoc reports using Excel

Overview of Agile Testing

• The role of the tester in a sprint planning meeting
• A lap around web-based test management
• Creating a test plan
• Creating manual test cases from requirements

Overview of Agile Development

• Using My Work to select tasks from the sprint backlog
• Understanding the value of linking changesets to work items
• The importance of unit testing
• Creating a continuous integration build

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