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Management

Susan Ibach| Technical EvangelistChristopher Harrison | Head Geek

What is TFS?

• Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to plan and track your projects from requirements collection to production

• TFS 2012 made it much easier to install TFS, added support for GitHub, and a number of big improvements for requirements tracking

• TFS 2013 has made improvements for managing larger projects, and a number of improvements along the way to help all TFS users

Module Overview

• TFS New features for planning

• TFS New features for development

• Visual Studio Online

• In release Management

TFS 2013 new features for planning

• Iteration task board

• Administration View for managing multiple teams

• Features work item

• Kanban board

• Work Item tagging

Planning in TFS

• In TFS you define one or more teams and team members

• You enter your project requirements in the form of user stories.

• You assign user stories to different iterations

• User stories are broken up into tasks and assigned to team members

• You can update progress for different tasks, re-assign work items to different iterations, or view the backlog of work remaining

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status for all the tasks for a release?

The iteration view shows you all the user stories assigned to a specific iteration

In TFS 2013 You can view a task board for each iteration

DEMOIteration Task Board

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Ever work on a project where you have multiple teams, and some individuals are split across teams?

Managing work across teams

• TFS 2013 has new portfolio capabilities so you can see the work across multiple teams and how that works rolls up to a bigger project or goal

DEMOAdministration view for managing multiple teams

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Do you think about requirements as Features -> User Stories -> Tasks?

The new Feature Work Item type acts as a parent to one or product backlog items

DEMOFeatures

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status of tasks for a specific team?

The Kanban board assists with throttling and tracking your work over time

DEMOKanban

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Have you ever needed a way to identify a set of tasks that you needed to track separately? (e.g. tasks that connect to a 3rd party system)

Work Item tagging allows you to categorize and filter lists of work items

DEMOWork Item Tagging

TFS 2013 new features for development

• Team Room

• Lightweight code comments

• Code Lens

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Ever missed taken a couple of days off and then spent the first day back trying to find out what happened while you were away?

The team room is a record of everything happening with the team

You can use a Team room to

• Share announcements with team members

• Send messages to team members

• Track events

DEMOTeam Room

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Have you ever gone digging through your email to try and find the discussion on why you made a code change?

Lightweight code comments allow you to have conversations about code within the browser

DEMOLightweight code comments

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How often do you find yourself looking up references to a method, or looking up when a method was last modified?

CodeLens provides insight about classes, methods, and properties within the code editor

DEMOCode Lens

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Are you using GitHub?

GitHub is supported for source control

DEMOUsing GitHub

Click to edit Master subtitle styleHave you heard of Visual Studio

Online?

Visual Studio Online user capabilities Unlimited projects/repositories Agile planning Work item tracking Code discussions Work item chart viewing

= Basic capabilities + Agile Portfolio Management Team Rooms Work item chart authoring Request & manage feedback

Advanced capabilities

Basic capabilities

Exclusive capabilities

= Advanced capabilities + Web test case management

Options for users to access Visual Studio Online

3) New cloud-only monthly user plans

2) Included for MSDN subscribers

Increased value to existing and new MSDN subscribers User plans purchased via Windows Azure.

1) Completely free for small teams

FREE: 5 usersFREE: 60 minutes Cloud Build per month

FREE: 5 usersAdditional users $20/month

All users $45/monthMax 10 per account with this planIncludes use of the VS Pro IDE

All users $60/month

DEMOVisual Studio Online

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How many environments do you typically support on a project? (dev, test, …)

Optimizing the release cycle

DEV QAINT PRODTeam Foundation

Server

Release process

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Test Prod DeployDeployProvision

Pre-ProdQA

IntegrationDev

Release cycle

Build &PackageCode Test Test

Test Test Prod DeployDeploy

Deploy

Deploy

Deploy

Automated Tests

Stagestack

InstallApplication

ProvisionEnvironment

Create Test Data

ConfigureEnvironment

ConfigureApplication

Manual Tests

Notify Approvers

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Microsoft Test Manager

Lab Manager

MS Tools

PowerShell

Custom Tools

Release Management for Team Foundation

Server 2013

Unit testing, Coded UI testing…

In Release Management

A continuous deployment solution for .NET teamsAutomates the deployment process

Simplifies managing multiple environments

Improves collaboration throughout the process

Provides release analytics and reporting

HistoryOriginally launched in 2009 as InRelease by InCycle Software

InRelease 2.0 launched in 2010, 3.0 in 2013

Acquired by Microsoft in 2013

Release Management components

Release Management Client for Visual Studio 2013 is available with:Visual Studio Test Professional

Visual Studio Premium

Visual Studio Ultimate

Release Management Server for Team Foundation Server 2013

Microsoft Deployment Agent 2013Required per deployment node

Licensed separately

Resources• In Release

• http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/inrelease/

Where can I get Visual Studio 2013

• MSDN subscribers can download

• Startup companies may qualify for MSDN through BizSpark www.Microsoft.com/bizspark

• Students can access through Dreamspark www.dreamspark.com

• Anyone can download Express or Trial versions at http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads

• Visual Studio Online – free for up to 5 users www.visualstudio.com/vsonline

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