Description
This book will help you get started with agile project management the use of Microsoft’s latest releases of its market-leading Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015, and Visual Studio Team Products and services (VSTS). The book demonstrates agile concepts and how to implement them the use of TFS/VSTS.
Many organizations are the use of agile practices today. Agility has change into a key enabler for running better projects with more successful end results and top of the range output. At the same time, adoption of TFS/VSTS has increased dramatically, from being just a new version keep an eye on system in the very beginning to becoming the fully-featured market leader it is today.
In order to benefit the most from agile practices you wish to have an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toolset that supports your way of working. With TFS/VSTS, Microsoft has provided a powerful tool that is very customizable. This book shows you how you’ll use TFS/VSTS to implement many agile practices and how they fit into a well-thought-out ALM implementation.
The book also shows how an agile product owner can work with TFS/VSTS to setup an agile project from scratch and how to continue the use of TFS/VSTS right through the whole project to track progress, create and refine the backlog, and work with Kanban and Scrum Task boards.
Keeping track of progress is important in any project. TFS/VSO includes many tools with a purpose to help you to track key metrics in an agile project. Many useful reports are available out of the box, and the TFS extensibility offers several ways to further customize reporting to fit your needs.
- Agile Concepts and Processes
- How TFS/VSO supports agile processes end to end
- How you’ll customize TFS/VSO to better toughen your processes
- How to set up an agile project from scratch and manage it over its lifecycle